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Radar Dismanteling Crew

Taken in 1944

Taken at nikolski

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Posted by sidorski

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It is time to go home to the states so we are dismanteling the radar I'm standing facing left and behind me is McKutcheon the fat guy fakeing chocking the man is the mess sgt and that's Bob Basford and his dog, I don't remember the names of the rest of the men. This picture was taken at Nikolski

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sidorski March 26, 2008 at 06:01AM Dear Mark, My email address is sidorski@nep.net and I got your last message but when I looked at my email address book I found out that I don't have you listed, I guess I forgot to add you to my list.
ElBartoKS March 25, 2008 at 01:44PM Is the e-mail address you were using on the Aleutians homepage message board still good? I sent a couple of things pertaining to my dad to it but am not sure if they got through.
sidorski March 25, 2008 at 03:14AM Conus Oh! I get it but I allways used to say state side, when we went stateside I was sent to a camp Pinedale in Ca. I was about 5' 11" I wonder why your dad didn't go there also. While I was there at Camp Pinedale I noticed that we were mostly non coms but I had been busted from T3 down to private for going over the hill for 3 days and getting drunk and disturbing the peace so in that picture of us at Yosemite taken by Ansel Adams I'm the only private there, the army sent a telegram to my father telling him that if he knew where I was that he had better tell me to turn my self in, that's when I decided that the army was no place for me to be so I took a discharge in October of 1945. Does your dads discharge paper tell what out fits he was in.
ElBartoKS March 25, 2008 at 01:25AM Sorry about the acronyms, that comes from many years of association with the military. CONUS is military speak for Continental United States. My dad was assigned to Coffeyville Army Airfield in Kansas sometime after April 1944. He also spent a fair amount of time in Florida at Hurlburt and possibly Drew Field after returning from the Aleutians but I don't know yet if this was before or after he arrived at Coffeyville. I can't enlarge the photo enough to get good facial details before they start blurring out, but the smile is sure similar to my dad's. By the way, my dad's discharge document says he was 5'9" in October 1945.
sidorski March 21, 2008 at 06:17AM Dear elBartok, That name sounds familiar to me and if that is your dad then he is not any shorter that Bob Basford who by the way I found out from his son's that he passed away and yes he was as tall as me. Your Dad showed up at Nikolski some time in 1943 or early 44 I was the maintenance man for the SCR 270 radar.set that was located on a mountain top called big Negro head. I'm not sure but I think your dad had something to do with the dismanteling of the radar set as I don't know what consus is. In this picture he is wearing glasses. It would me interesting to me to know what CONSUS is, when we were at Seattle Wa waiting to go to Alaska I bougth a radio hand book from a guy named Corpral Vito Gobho and on the inside cover I wrote 677th signal aircraft warning co but later on I found out that no one actually knew what the company designation was, it was a slam bang get them to Alaska in a hurry because they dredged me out of the infantry at Camp Croft S.C. to get the radar to Alaska before the war ended as in those two years 1942 to 1945 we ended the war. Let me know what you find out at Maxwell AFB Oh by the way Basford was tall I think he was one inch taller than me and I was 5 ft 11 at that time.
ElBartoKS March 21, 2008 at 01:16AM Do you remember if this was taken in or prior to April 1944? I'm probably way off, but the short guy next to Basford bears some resemblance to my dad who was transferred back to CONUS in April 1944. When I thnk of photos taken of my dad after he arrived back in CONUS, there is some facial resemblance. The guy in the photo may be a little too short though unless Basford was really tall. Dad was a radar operator but I don't know for sure which unit. I tend to think it was 691st Signal Air Warning, but I'm waiting to get hold of the unit history from Maxwell AFB which will hopefully help me learn more.

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