PAGE THREE - Remembering
SAMSON .. Ron Samson
samsons@3n.net
Homepage URL:
http://members.tripod.com/~samsonr
Webmaster for the 6922nd page, you have a great page, keep it up!!
SANCHEZ .. Hipolito "Paul" Sanchez, 2130 Harriett Dr, Corpus Christi
TX 78416 512 854 3657
SCHLEP .. Bob Schelp, Easy Trick, March 1958 to June 1969, transferred
to Rhine-Main AFB Det 1 and then 6916th RSM. Worked in the Personnel
Section. rdschelp@yahoo.com
SCHLUMPBERGER .. Eugene F. Schlumpberger
2005 Gettysburg Ave N
Minneapolis MN 55427
612-544-0064
Easy Trick
SCHROEDER .. William
N. Schroeder, 363 Zane Avenue, Abington PA 19001,
215-663-1677
SCHULLERY .. Edward J Schullery
9 Botsford Rd
Kent CT 06757-1225
860-927-3995
Schullery@freewweb.com
SCHULTZ .. Ronald D. Schultz
145 Via Joaquin
Moraga, CA 94556
RonaldS842@aol.com
Would love to hear from 1st RSMers. I've got some wonderful stories I can
tell.
SCORBY .. Gary Scorby
scorby@harborside.com
Having been assigned to the 6911TH RGM Darmstadt 1959 and 1960 I am interested
in reunion dates and places. I was A/1C Gary Scorby, USAFSS from 1957 to
1960.
SEELEY .. Dennis Seeley
seelaydr@yahoo.com 6910th from 64-67
SHOWN .. Sid Shown
3428 Glen Raven Road
Cedar Hill TN 37032-5104
615-696-2133
XVIETNAM@aol.com
SIEGENTHALER .. Dean Siegenthaler
*Fallen
Hero*
121 West 11th Street
Oneida Castle NY 13421
6911th 1956-60, Crypto.
Reunion sounds like a plan! Don't remember if we had a yearbook
at the 6911th or not.
SIEVERS .. Harley D. Sievers
9326 S. Decker Rd.
Decker IN 47524
812-769-5506
Easy Trick
SIMIELE .. Mike Simiele (294/205)
lazerbeam@calwest.net
6900/ESR and used to "frequent" "D"Stadt for good times & beer!
SIMPSON .. Doug Simpson. I was with the 3rd RSM when we rolled through
France in WW-II. After we reached Germany we became the 2nd RSM, and later
the 6911th. I'm looking for Colonel William C. Brinson. He was from Georgia.
You can contact me at 541-479-0480.
SIMPSON .. Paul L. "Sam" Simpson (Col.,
retired)
5664 71st St N
St Petersburg FL 33709
727 548 7632
SKINNER .. Eugene Skinner ---
Fallen
Hero
eskinner@gcnet.com
316-275-6074
6916 RSM, Rhein Main, Nov59-Nov60
SMITH .. Clifford B. Smith
2303 Wilkenson Place
Alexandria VA 22306
Phone 703 768 7687
SOMMER .. Klaus D. and Dagmar Sommer. I was the German National,
who with Wolfgang, worked in the Supply Section.
I remember many names of Air Force friends.
SPANGLER .. Leonard L. Spangler, 936 47th Ave. Vero Beach FL
32960
len@atlanticcoastal.com
Assigned to 6911th as a morse intercept operator from Mid-1957 until 2-1959,
Dog Trick.
561-569-6216. Deceased 2004. See
"FALLEN
HEROS".
STAFFORD .. Murl Stafford
mlstaff@webtv.net
I was at the 6911th from May 1957 to Dec. 1959, then like a fool,
I volunteered for a tour in Turkey. I stayed in till 1962, then became
a civilian again. It has been nice talking to some of the guys that I haven't
seen in years. Thamks for any info. 191 Davis Ford Lane, Azle TX 76020,
817-444-3493.
STEELE .. Ralph W. Steele
9829 N. Moonstone Pl
McCordsville IN 46055-9455
317-335-7028
rwsteele@quiknet.net
6911th, Able Trick Mar 1958 to Sep 1961.
STEWART .. Ronald W. Stewart, skibald@aol.com, 1875 Centennial
Way, Escondido CA 92026
760 739 8263
STRICK .. Bob Strick
rstrick@new.rr.com
1241 Stead Drive
Menasha, WI 54952
(920)734-2858
Fax: (920)727-9119
STROUP .. Loren Stroup
3605 Norfolk Rd
Fort Worth TX 76109
817-975-6871
817-926-4413
stolo@flash.net
STUCKY .. Dennis Stucky
1000-15 Paradise Landing
BKimberline City MO 68686
888 530 9449
dennis_stucky@hotmail.com
SWEARINGEN .. Gene Swearingen
GSwear7171@aol.com
If you need a local gofer, Gulfport is just a few rock-throws away from Biloxi,
so feel free to call on me.
209 48th St.
Gulfport, Ms. 39507
228 868-2764
SWINK ..
swink@inet-systems.net
You dont know how much this means to me. The internet has humbled me to find
old service buddies that never left Germany, meaning their value to the support
was that important. The house I lived in Vockerode was built in the late
1600s. There was a Town Crier. There was big guy who I saw walking toward
me at a brisk pace allowing my heart to move into my thoart. He had a ball
and chain over his shoulder and a big black bag. I later found out he was
the chimney sweep. A friend ran into our house knocking off a small piece
of the white and I saw the limbs and mud that made up the wall. I will never
forget those times. I once came home to the USA and asked why there was not
houses built like those that dont fall down. I am disabled with hep c, cirrhosis
of liver. Never drank much, go figure - ha ha should have drunk it.
The beer in Germany was something I will always remember. My attempt at a
page is
http://members.xoom.com/swink/page2.html
SYLMAR .. Nino A. Sylmar
nino@usit.net
I served as a Russian translator (AFSC 20370) with the 2nd Radio Squadron
from 1950-53,
stationed in Darmstadt. I really, really enjoyed my tour of duty in Germany.
As I recall, our
unit was based at Kaiser Ludwig Kaserne.
TAKESIAN .. Charles Takesian, 8566 SW 108th
Lane, Ocala FL 34481, 352-237-2618
TALLEY .. Norman M. Talley Jr.
ntalley@aol.com
706-663-2969
6911 May 1955-Sept 1958 (Baker 293xx)
TANSEY .. Jim Tansey
tanseyj@theriver.com
520-588-0675
http://www.sinosa.com/~tanseyj
TART .. Larry Tart
562 Brittany Drive
State College, PA
16803
LarryTart@aol.com
814 238-7067
6916th '67-73 Rhein-Main 73-76 Athens
TAYLOR .. Jim Taylor,
FALLEN
HERO,
wrote this shortly before his death in January,
1999:
I went to your Air Force
site and was really surprised. I went to Germany in early l953. I was in
USAFSS and was supposed to go to southern Germany to the 6911. When we landed
in Bremerhaven on the USN Geiger ship they cancelled our orders and we stayed
in Bremerhaven where we did our job for USAFSS in the 6913th. That was a
long time ago and I seem to recall it was the 2nd Radio Squadron Mobile and
later the changed to the 6911RSM. I would have to try to find the paperwork
to be sure. But I was there for about 5 years, at the time you could extend
your tour if you wanted to. I only remembered on our debriefing when we left
there we could not devulge any information that we learned. My last 11 years
in the Air Force I flew in the SAC Airborne Command Post and logged over
5000 hours on a EC-135 aircraft. I flew out of Chatteroux, France in C-118
when the command post was first started in Europe. Then we went to Mendenhall,
England and we got the EC 135s.
TAYLOR .. Win Taylor
win.taylor@worldnet.att.net
(616) 364-4113
TENNANT
.. TAMStht@aol.com
Thomas H. Tennant
THADEUS .. Ralph R. Thadeus
slhapur1@inlink.com
314/286-4268
Homepage URL: http://members.aol.com/asavets/alpine/alpine.htm
Army Security Agency 1953-56 Scheyern, Germany Between Munich/Ingolstadt
on road to Nurnberg
TIDWELL .. James G. Tidwell
3610 N. Academy Blvd
Colorado Springs CO 80917
jtidwell@brain.uccs.edu
I served with the ESR Detachment 2 - OL3 at Camp Pieri, near Wiesbaden from
1968 towards the end of 1969 when our unit was merged with the 6911th at
Cambrai-Fritsch, Darmstadt, where we shared the compound with the 6910th.
I served there until I left the Air Force in May 1971. We were not a true
part of the 6911th and its mobile comm mission, nor anything like the mission
directed towards the Warsaw Pact. I had never known the prior history of
the 6911th or the happenings since. I am glad I came across your site. I
do recall my first visit to the compound of the 6910th when I was still attached
to Det 2. A group of us Det folk were sent there for a day of orientation.
We checked through security and were led into a room with a giant glass map
of Europe. We were instructed in the mission and scope of the 6910th and
the number of linguists of all European languages found on-site... morse
code, ditty boppers, intel newspaper specialists, crypto (green door), top-secret
destroy-before-reading--eyes-only... Suddenly, personnel from the 6910th
began entering the room and there was a fever of voices that called out troop
movements, tanks, aircraft all heading into Czechoslovakia. As with Hungary
a decade plus before, the Soviets and their allies punished the small nation
that wished to break free from the totalitarian hammer and fist. Needless
to say, as we were watching the invasion on glass, we were told to leave
the map room. Don, we were using reel to reel technology. Headsets on ears
and listening to phone communications. What a time it was. Thank you Don,
for caring so much as to give of your time and resources towards preservation
of the history and honor of the 6911th.
TILLMAN .. Harold Tillman,
htillman@gulftel.com,
10594 Tillman Lane, Foley AL 36353,
334-965-7513.
SEE Fallen
Heros.
TIMBERS .. Jim Timbers
960 Princeton Terrace
Glen Burnie MD 21060
linjimtim@aol.com
I enjoy this web page very much. Brings back a lot of memories. I was in
Darmstadt from 59 to 62 on Able Trick. Worked for Tsgt. Don Maddux. Would
like to hear from others from that time.
TITLOW .. Robert W Titlow
4136 Plumtree St
Las Vegas NV 89115
702-643-8739
Easy Trick/Det-1
TRAVELSTEAD .. Homer Travelstead
6010 Yellowstone Pkwy
Indianapolis IN 46217
317-788-0534
TRIEMSTRA .. Kenneth "Ken"
Triemstra
240 Middle St Apt 4
Portsmouth NH 03801-4355
603-430-9742
TRUCHAN .. Bernard (Ben) S. Truchan
511 N Rumple Ln
Addison IL 60101
630-627-3897
jane1011@aol.com
Charlie Trick Radio Intercept Operator
1958-61
TUNE .. James E. Tune (Ed)
705 Sarah
Sullivan MO 63080
573-468-4790
tune@fidnet.com
Its a neat thing that you have in the mill. I recently heard from A.L. Hilscher
in Tx about the reunion. I'm excited about it. Hope you don't forget some
of my old buddies: Charles O. Yarrington (Red), Fred Gettner, Nick DePaul
(Mouse), Don Hatfield, Dave McConnagie (Spelling Doubtful), John J. Jones,
John Haller, Tiny Sands (Tiny), Tom Flatley, Jay Jasinski, Rudy Bannet, SSgt
Vanwagner (always called him Sarge, was a block chief), Gene Sarazen, SSgt
Landray, but to name a few. Catcher for the Rummel Rascles and Played on
the Delta Daggers BBall Team. Keep
up the good work. Saw the photos at the site.
Tom Flatly, remember him carring around a pint fruit jar with several crabs
saying they were his pets. Fred Gettner, JV Dornak, Charlie Bradshaw, John
Haller, Pops Hatfield, Castigalloni, Nick (Mouse) Depaul, Rudy Bannet, John
J. Jones, Charles (Red Yarrington) Fred Gettner, Frank J. Bat, Erich (Fly
face) Jay, Jasinski and a bunch more all with memories like setting their
chatter rolls on fire, Mid shift hot feet, the trips to exotic places like
the Hillbilly Guest House, The Milk bar, St Pauli's, the Phillips bar and
some of the other fine watering holes in Darmstadt. How great the scenery
was at some of the local swimming pools, and we don't want to forget Amsterdam,
Paris, Zurich, and the fair city of Frankfurt (especially the area immediately
across from the Train Station) Remember the fast pitch base ball game we
organized. We divided into two sides. The Rummel Rascles vs the Seagram Sevens
plus two. Collected for about two kegs of beer, Played after the last Mid
Shift and had one heck of a game.
TURNBAUGH .. Charlie "Phil"
Turnbaugh
2788 Choctaw Dr
Melbourne FL 32935-8817
321-259-4121
CPTurnbau@aol.com
If there is any way at all, I will be there...I'm still working for a living
and the company (Nokia) manages to put me on the road at the wrong time.
FYI, I ran into Jim Champion in Thailand in 1971 or 72....He hadn't changed
a bit.. Also ran into our old NCOIC, Jim Love, while he was with the 3rd
Mob...I'll be looking for you at the reunion...Regards...
TURNER .. Charlie C Turner "Chuck" SMSGT
(ret)
36235 King Salmon Ave
Soldotna AK 99669
907-262-2920
chuckturner@worldnet.att.net
TURNER .. Thomas (Tom) G Turner
1360 East Upland Hills Drive South
Upland CA 91786
909-985-7759
1958-60 Radio Printer Intercept
ULMER .. Charles H. Ulmer, Colonel, USAF (ret)
850 Golden Hills Road
Colorado Springs Co 80919-8154
CHUlmer@aol.com
URDAHL .. Served from Sept. 52 until about Sept. 54. Was on Charlie
Trick until I was made part of the Electronic Intercept analysis group. I
lived with the Charlie trip bunch but worked straight afternoon. I came over
as an Electronic Intercept Operator. We were the guys that got all the football
scores for the others from AP Up and INS. We have had two reunions of the
2nd, one in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. the other in Las Vegas. The next one will
be in Las Vegas in March 2000. See some of you there. David L. Urdahl from
Hibbing, Minn. E-mail
davur@juno.com
VANFOSSEN .. Thomas Vanfossen
808 2nd Ave
Folsom PA 19033
610-583-5785
VERSLUIS .. Robert Versluis
106 Floresta St.
Gunnison CO 81230
versluis@montrose.net
970-641-0554
VICKERY .. Richard Vickery, 10013 Brownwood
Ave, Orlando FL 32825, 407-277-7741
WALLS .. Leo Walls
leowalls@stic.net
6000 Mike Nesmith Street
San Antonio TX 78238-1614
(210) 680-3330
After X1 School at Keesler and X2 school at March Field, I took the USS Buchner
at the end of 1954 to Bremerhaven Germany on my way to Landsburg. Upon arrival
at Bremerhaven, they diverted all of us to 2nd RSM at Darmstadt. In Dec 56,
I went to Samsun Turkey where the Tuslod Det 2 was activated. Jan 58, back
to 6911th RGM in Darmstadt. All this time I had worked as a ditty bopper.
About the middle of 1958, they found out that I had been thru the X2 school
so I moved to the X2 shopin the back room. Dec 58, I was transferred to 6913th
At Bremerhaven. In Feb 61, I moved to the 6917th at San Vieto Italy which
had just opened. Sept 62, I transferred to USAFSS HQ in San Antonio. Oct
63, Back to 6913th in Bremerhaven. In Oct 66 (just as 6913th was closing)
I went back to HQ USAFSS. Sept 67, Went to Corry Field Naval station at Pensacola
for a six months school. April 68, went to 6931th RSM at Crete. Nov 69, back
to Darmstadt but in the 6910th this time. June 72, (as 6910th moved to Augsburg)
I transferred to 6921 SW Misawa Japan, Jan 74, Back to 6911th RSM at Rhine
Main. In 1975, helped move and relocat 6911th to Hahn AB Germany. Feb 77,
back to 6921th RSM Misawa Japan. Sept 78, Back to HQ USAFSS and retired MSGT
on 1 Nov 79. Worked as Civil Service with USAFSS for 16 years retiring Jan
97. I already have reservations and looking forward to this reunion.
WARGO .. Robert L. Wargo
11 Glenwood Drive Apt B
Goffstown NH 03045-2201
603-497-4835
Dog Trick
WATSON .. Don Watson
Oklahoma City
405 787 4371
Dog Trick
dwats
(at) cox . net (change the (at) to the @ symbol)
You may remember me rolling around Darmstadt-Eberstadt in the 1954 red Pontiac
Chieftain convertible I got from Charlie Cook of Charlie Trick when he went
to Turkey to do "you know what." Where are you, Charlie? Charlie and I sang
in a trio and quartet for most of the time we were there. Our pianist was
Rudy Clark, U.S. Army, who went on to write for and accompany some of the
great recording artists of that era. Other singers: Cecil Turner, Stan Lopatic,
George Barr, Jim Brigham, Richard Goldsmith, all 6911th. They booted me from
Crypto when I married a German National. We have 3 children, 10
grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. And they said it would never work!
We have been back nine times (9) (I went alone a 10th time), and dismayed
by the modernization of, and massive immigration to, Germany. In 2006-2007
massive apartment houses are being built for immigrants. Smaller apartment
house buildings are being leveled to make room. In those and in some
neighborhoods, German isn't spoken. We obviously prefer the "good old days."
They built a snack bar and pizza place right in the middle of the parking
lot next to the PX. When we were on Cambrai in '72 the gate guards were in
combat gear and armed to the teeth. Then for several years you could drive
on the post, no gate guards, drive right up to the barracks. I remember times
when me and Captain Nielsen would load up a jeep with messages that had to
be transmitted, and our landlines were down. We headed for Det-1, Rhein-Main,
armed with .45 caliber sidearms and the M-1 Carbine. We cut through the field
at the site, pulled out onto the old road to Frankfurt, and drove like
hell. Once there, Captain Nielsen found a chair or the Officer's Club, and
I used Det-1's stuff to send the messages. What a time! ---Don
Watson, 6911th Darmstadt, 55-60. I speak, read, write German! Send me your
German-language documents to translate!! Reduced rates for 2nd RSM and 6911
RSM/RGM members!
WATSON .. Tom Watson (Thomas C. Watson, Jr.)
wurywart@prodigy.net
(843) 665-8287
6912th Landsberg & Bingen, Ger. 1-54 / 11-56
WAYNE .. Rupard Wayne
rupard.wayne@keesler.af.mil
I was not a member of the 2nd RSM or 6911th, but from 58 - 61 I
was a intercept operator assigned to the 25th RSM at Clark AB Philippines,
this was later changed to the 6922 RSM (RGM) until Mt Pitatubo closed Clark
AB. While going through your web page I noticed you have a connection for
several squadrons in PACAF. I checked the listing of personnel who were stationed
in Europe and found one name I knew Charlie Graham. I retired from the Air
Force 1 Aug 79 and went to work with the Civil Service at Keesler AFB
Mississippi. From July 82 till Jul 86 I was an instructor in the Morse Intercept
School at Keesler along with Charlie until it was deactivated and moved to
Ft Devens Mass. The Air Force portion of the school was opened at Devens
in Oct 86 and the last class graduated Keesler in Feb 87. I attended the
intercept school in Thomson Hall from Dec 57 until I graduated on 24 Jun
58. Ft Devens has since closed and the part of the school is at Ft Huachuca
Arizona and the rest is with the Navy at Cory Field Florida. It seems that
most of the squadrons have closed up, I guess we are a dying breed. Hope
you get this. I don't have a computer a home, however, my E-Mail address
at Keesler is . Hope to hear from you.
WEISS .. Robert C. Weiss
20651 N 16th Pl
Phoenix AZ 85024
623-587-8173
Able Trick 1958-61
bobaru@mindspring.com
weissr@ctt.com
WENDLING .. Tom Wendling See "Fallen
Heros"
1140 Downing Circle
Wauchula FL 33873
863-767-0443
6911th 1960-61.
WESTBROOK .. Gerald Westbrook
1641 Fendall Ct
Crofton MD 21114
410-721-9060
Charlie Trick
WHIPPLE .. Bradford Whipple
Route 117
Lisbon NH 03585
603-823-5318
brad@landmarknet.net
ledgelandinn@landmarknet.net
20351-1 Syracuse USAFIT Det-1 grad 6-57.
WHITE .. Albert H. White Jr. (Bert)
See
http://donmar.org/6911rgm/fallenheros.htm
WIGGER .. Ken Wigger
wigger@piasanet.com
I was a member of ASA and attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey
California. I took the 32 Week German course back in 74 or so. My German
used to be considerably better than it is now but I can still read fairly
good at times. We had some members of the equivilant security services from
the Air Force there in my classes too.
WILSON ..
woakus@email.msn.com
Woody Wilson
6911th. I was stationed with the 6911th from Aug 74 thru Aug 77. I was there
when the unit moved to
Hahn and was the last member to leave Rhein-Main Air Base. Hope to hear from
some other members.
WINK .. James T. Wink, 51 Algonquin Road, Clifton
Park NY 12065, 518-383-3121
WITCHER .. Jerry V. Witcher
109 Georgia Belle Avenue
Belmont NC 28012-2806
WOODBURY .. Gene Woodbury,
FALLEN HERO, 6911th from October 1959 (SSgt)
to April 1962, Easy Trick , radio repairman. Commissioned as a 2Lt after
Darmstadt. Stationed at Kelly AFB SS Hdqtrs;Yokota AFB (6988th), Mosco ID.
Darmstadt 72-74, retired. Gene died in 2000. Info from his wife, Jan,
janwoodbury@bellsouth.net
WRIGHT .. Roland L. Wright
1702 61st Ave
Hyattsville MD 20785
301-772-5287
Dog Trick
WYCALLIS .. John Wycallis
German-American@gmx.de
6911th. Germany became home. Still live here in Darmstadt after all these
years.
WYLIE .. Edward H. Wylie. I arrived at the 6911th in August, 1955.
Because of manning requirements I was only there until the end of September,1955.
(I was a "203"). I was then transferred to the 6910th(redesignated 6901st
in early '56) at Landsberg. I did ,however, know a few of the guys already
at Darmstadt and also the others who came over on the ship with me and were
also assigned to the 6911th. I belong to the FTVA, so I read the quarterly
newsletter and can catch any updates that you might insert. My mailing address
is: Edward H. Wylie, 260 Yerba Santa Ave. Los Altos, CA, 94022 Email address:
ewylie@acuson.com
YACKANICZ .. Paul Yackanicz, 6103 Johnnycake Rd, Gwynn Oak MD 20207
410 788 9070
ZACK .. Boyd Zack
2115 Carlee Dr.
Pueblo, Colorado 81005
719-561-2866
Boyd's wife, Carol, passed away. Services were
held at Imperial Memorial Gardens Funeral
Home in Pueblo, CO., 27 Sep
2002.
ZAREMBA .. Chet Zaremba
CZ3826@aol.com
6915 SS/SG, R-20351-E
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