VP-18 CREW 6--The photo was made in 1961 at Ben Garar AFB in Morroco, North Africa. The Squadron was deployed to NAS Sigonella, Sicily and the crew was on assignment in support of the Space Program.
Front row left to right are: AT2 Don Sims, 1st. tech; AT3 Gene Jones, 3rd tech/ radioman; AE2 Fred Akins, 4th tech; AOAN Larry Landrith, ordinceman; and ADR3 Bob Snowden, 2nd mech.
Second row left to right are: AT3 Don Huth, 2nd tech; LT Vic Wintriss, Pilot; LTjg John Cain, Navigaor/ 3rd Pilot; LTjg Buzz Kraus, CoPilot; and ADR2 Floyd Disbrow, Plane Capt./ 1st mech.
Shipmates, November 15, 2009
I received this from Ron Kravitz, a VP-18 shipmate...Interesting pictures. I remember the deployment very well...My second to Sigonella. Included is a good picture of AT1 Ed Dubravsky. I talked to Ed about a month ago. He spends time between Maine and Florida.
Don
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From: p3flyer.verizon.net
To: Don Sims
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 10:14 PM
Subject: Old VP-18 News
Don:
Going thru old mementos I found this old portion of the Sigonella paper and just goy it copied before it disintegrated.
May your troubles be less,
your blessings more,
and may nothing but happiness,
come through your door.
Sigonella Initionator 15 Jul 61.pdf
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Richard Ward to Don
show details 11:30 AM (41 minutes ago)
Don, thanks for the 7 .pdf files from Sigonella, 1961. My software from Homestead only allows me in import jpeg files. This has always been a problem. Sometimes I just wish that our shipmates would just take a digital picture with their camera of these old memories, and then send them to me to input to the website. ....Richard
I found a way to import this 5MB .pdf file....click on
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