Home Page : News News Roger Cook Memorial Service Information Thailand/Ho Chi Minh Trail Tour Join General Heine Aderholt for a tour of Thailand and the Ho Chi Minh Trail from March 5-17, 2003. Hosted by North by North East Tours in Thailand, visit the above link for more details. Kwajalein Range Services The address of the new contractor on Kwajalein Island (Team of Bechtel National, Lockheed Martin, and Chugach) is: Kwajalein Range Services, LLC You can also visit their web site for more information. Submitted by Jack Knotts A Thousand Faces A message from the the author: I have just finished my book depicting 7 years in Vietnam as a Central Intelligence Agency Air Officer, titled A Thousand Faces. It leans toward my relationship with Air America and the last days of the fall of Saigon and covers my time in Da Nang and Saigon. I do not profess to be a writer but believe you will find it interesting. It is published by an "on-demand publisher," Trafford Publishing, with copies printed as requests are received. The book costs $14.95 per copy. It is on the Internet and partial content will be added shortly. Additional info and ordering of copies is best on this link: http://www.trafford.com/robots/02-0548.html or [email protected] You can also call toll free 1-888-232-4444. Thanks, O. B. Harnage Bangkok 2002 Reunion Attendance List New resource online: The
CIAs Airlines: Logistic Air Support of the War in Laos 1954 to 1975 Contains a brief history of CAT, Air America, Bird and Son, CASI, and Arizona Helicopters, as well as Aircraft Listings with detailed information on each aircraft. REQUEST FOR YOUR HELP IN OBTAINING PHOTOGRAPHS FOR A WEBSITE HONORING VIETNAM HELICOPTER PILOTS
I am building the museum website for the
Vietnam Helicopter Pilots association at www.vhpamuseum.org
. Please take a look. I welcome your comments and possible input. If you look
under the "Misc. Units" button on the left side toward the bottom
you will notice I have a page for Air America. I am looking for
input from members - photos, stories, etc. I appreciate your consideration and
would like to commend your site. Very well done and exciting to look
through. Please send comments etc to John Conway at: [email protected]
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REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON ROBERT HURST HUNTER AND/OR JACK BRENNAN Please contact, Ricky C. Hunter at [email protected] if you knew or worked with Robert Hurst Hunter and/or Jack Brennan. We were in Udorn, Thailand from approximately 1967-1971. Thanks for all your help AIR AMERICA CITATION AWARD TAPE AVAILABLE Daniel Parker has made available to Dan Gamelin and the Air America Store a video tape of the 2001 Las Vegas CIA awards presentation by Jim Glerum. It was recorded on a professional camera, so the quality is good considering the environment that night. It is available on VHS tape, and I will consider making DVDs if there is enough interest. Dan Gamelin has set the price at $22 which includes shipping by priority mail. Contact Dan Gamelin at [email protected] REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ABOUT ANTIONIO C. CALDERON The family of Antonio Calderon requests any information from and/or contact with any AAM Association members who knew Antonio C. Calderon. A.C. was an AAM mechanic living in Vientiane, Laos in the late 1960s. Mr. Calderon was killed in a car accident on June 17, 1967. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Dr. Erik D. Carlson at the Air America Archive at The University of Texas at Dallas. Erik D. Carlson, Ph.D. The History of Aviation Collection/Air America ArchiveAIR AMERICA TAPE AVAILABLE FROM A&E A VCR tape on Air America is available from A&E Television Networks P.O. Box 2284, S. Burlington, VT 05407-2284, or call 1-800-941-4007. The title is: Air America, The CIAs Secret Airline from its Origins in WW2 to the Fall of Saigon Former Pilots Help Tell the Stories of the Clandestine Southeast Airline (50 minutes). Annual
Air Commando Association (ACA) Reunion October 10 - 13, 2002 The Air Commando Association Annual Reunion will be held in Fort Walton Beach, FL 10 - 13 October 2002. Tel 850-581-0099, Fax 850-581-8988, e-mail [email protected] or web page http://home.earthlink.net/~aircommando1/ for more details: Eugene D. Rossel, 6083 Rosa Ct, Chino, CA 91710 ACA Public Relations Officer; Tel 909-930-5700, Work Tel/Fax 909-591-7342 e-mail [email protected] Oral History Interviews are now available online. You can now read transcripts and listen to streaming audio files of interviews conducted with CAT and Air America personnel. Newspaper Articles on CAT/Air America CIA Citations, Commemorative Medallion, and Postal Cachet Order Copies of Citations, Medallions, and Postal Cachets New Articles added to the Air America Feature Stories Page You can also Submit your Story or Article for the Web You can now view CAT/Air America Oral History Interviews online on the following web page: CAT/Air America Oral History Project. In addition to information about online transcripts and ongoing interviews, you can also find out how you can participate in this project. CAT/Air America employees and their family members are all welcome to participate in this project. In addition to being online as part of the Virtual Archive at TTU, copies of interviews will also be made available at UTD. We hope you will participate in this project to preserve and make available the individual and collective history of Civil Air Transport and Air America through the voices of those who were there. Thank you. HELP NEEDED FOR THE CAT/AIR AMERICA ARCHIVES The Archives have attracted quite a lot of attention, and we are unable to keep up with all the requests for information people send us and process the collections. To all CAT or Air America employees living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area interested in becoming a volunteer please contact Dr. Carlson or Carole at UTD, telephone (972) 883-2570. The benefits include frequent warm handshakes, a sense of valuable accomplishment and a free lunch on the days worked. Thank you for anything you can do for us, and thank you for everything you have done for us already. |
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