5th Comm Group



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1st Radio Squadron
1st RADIO SQUADRON

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5th Comm Officers - 1952

1st Radio Squadron Complex
C.O. 1st Radio Sqdn Maj. Joseph Glass

Message Center CW Section
Fred Swan

Radio Van

1st Radio C.W. Xmitters
1st Radio Mobility Van, Hqs 5th Comm Gp Compound located on the hill built and equipted by "Self Help"
1st Radio Sqdn Rear Xmitter Site - Taegue S

1st Radio Rear, Taegue
1st Radio Sqdn Rear, Xmitters, Taegu

S/Sgt Holcomb, S/Sgt James Martin & CWO Smith Green.

Hqs. & NCO bks barely visible at bottom right. Radio Teletype vans in left foreground front of Xmitter building. Radio Operators commuted to 7th Comm Sqdn in Taegu each shift via 6X6 trucks. The jeep was assigned to OIC but NCOs used when needed
Shorty Freidenberger & Richard McLain
Shorty & McLain, Dick Gladney (behind wheel)

Savage, McLain, Smitty & Kelly

(back)West - Freidenberger, Wilsey (front) McFarland & Plympton
Wilsey at the Korean Market

Larry Pittman
Lester Wilsey
Veteto & West

(back) Yates, Scheller, Wilsey -(front)Pittman & Gladney
(back) Veteto, Yates, West, Plympton (Front) Savage & Freidenberger
West, Scheller & Shorty

Airevac at Kimpo
Earl L. Favre Sleeping Area - Castle
Wilsey & Favre at Korean Market

Gus Blanchette & Larry Pittman
Pittman & West
Shorty Freidenberger

Fred Yates
McLain
Lester Wilsey

Gus Blanchette
Paul Balerud
Thomas Eanes
Leslie Lines
Charles McFarland
Bernie Remas

Larry Pittman, Johnny Black & Lester Wilsey
George Holmack
Richard Tinsley in the 'foxhole' Rear of the Castle

Richard Tinsley
McLain & Pittman
Castle in the 1990's

The Castle
McLain, Scheller,Yates, Smith, Veteto
McLain, Freidenberger, Yates, Wilsey, Loudermilk, Blanchette

Rear.(?),Blanchette, (?)Freidenberger, Felice,
Remas (?),(?),Ohime, Wilsey, Goodis,
Plympton, Ayers, Eanes
Front Left; Feiler, ?,?,?,Crank, Seisgismund,?,?,
98 reunion
Castle Waitresses
1st Radio Rear Waitresses

Paul Kelly - Christmas of 1952 on the USS Missouri
Edward V. Lux

Motor Pool

1st Radio room
John Thomas & Carpenter
Edward Lux
The “Castle”

Motor Pool
Back right is Carpenter and his left is John Thomas

Robert F. Duggan
David Espinosa
Edward Lux

SO 100 14 Apr 51 P1

SO 100 14 APR 51 p2

Castle
1952 Map

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RADIO PRESS 24 DEC 1951 P1
RADIO PRESS 24 DEC 1951 P2
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