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President's Message
By William "BILL" Campbell
The new century has been a very active time for your president and members of the chapter. The Spring Fling had a fine crowd and the speaker was well received. Our monthly meetings at the Hanscom Officers' Club are also well attended. The mini-meeting at McDonald's in Walpole draws nearly as many members as the regular meeting. This issue has all the news of our three very successful outings in recent months. We are scheduled to march in the Chinese Independence Day Parade in downtown Boston around the 10th of October. This is an event that we all enjoy particularly since a Chinese lunch is served to marchers when the parade ends in Chinatown. Why not march with us?
The Fall Fling will be our fifteenth. It looks like we will have an excellent turnout as usual. I would like to thank each and every member for his confidence and support. I would thank everybody by name who contributed to our success but I might miss a few and that would not be good.
We are entering the winter season and outdoor activities are limited. However we are working on a couple of projects to brighten wintertime and it won't be long before spring returns. Well, maybe longer than I think. Winter likes my home town of Clinton so much it comes early and stays late. Like your brother-in-law when there's a good football game on TV. There are suggestions for keeping in touch in this issue. A membership application is in here too waiting for your signature if you are not a member already. Hope to see you at the next meeting.
Reservations for the
15th Annual Fall Fling!
Hanscom A.F.B. Officers Club, November 2, 2000
Click on the pumpkin below to print a reservation form!
Directions to Hanscom Air Force Base
Take Rte 2A off Rte 2 or 128 or take Rte 4/255 off 128. The
Air Force Police will check you off from a roster we'll supply. Click
here for a map to Hanscom.
Reservation form is here. List those attending and enclose your
check. See you there! Bon appetit!
NEW MEMBERS
Our treasurer tells us that the last time we printed a list of new members
was two years ago. So let us welcome the new members whose names are
printed here.
Albert Romano, 389BG, Norman Veenstra, 448BG, David Cox, 100BG,
P. Dennis Otis
Assoc., Alexander G. Clovos, son of 389GG Vet. John S. Brainard, 491BG,
Mitchell J. Hale, 385BG, Dennis R. Kazanjian, Assoc, USN, Edward P.
Johnson,
Assoc., Paul Kasper, Assoc., Louis Smith 93BG, Richard
Buswell, Carolyn Conroy,
Dana T. Dreher, David Litchfield, Assoc, J. Robert Casey,
Waban, Jack Dempsey, Stoneham, Richard F. Sullivan, Jr.,
Marshfield, Tony M. Shaw, Waban.and George P.
MacNeil, Assoc. George was in the Air Force reserve for eight years and was a mechanic with the
94th Troop Carrier Wing. He is our newest member.
Selected for reassignment as vice commander, Electronic Systems Center, Air Force Materiel Command, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass.
Brig. Gen. Robert H. Latiff is commander, Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo. He is responsible for execution of the North American Aerospace Defense Command's integrated tactical warning and attack assessment mission and U.S. Space Command's space and missile warning support to NORAD and other warfighting commanders in chief.
The general received his commission after completing the Army ROTC program at the University of Notre Dame as a distinguished graduate. He entered active service in the Army in 1974 and transferred to the Air Force in 1980. He has served on the staff of the Secretary of the Air Force and as director for the Cheyenne Mountain Complex program. Prior to assuming his current position, the general served as program director for the Electronic Systems Center's Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System. He was responsible for all aspects of development, acquisition and sustainment of the high-priority E-8C Joint STARS system and coordination with the U.S. Army Common Ground Station Program.
For more information, click here: http://www.af.mil/news/biographies/latiff_rh.html
Join the 8th!
To print an application, click the seal.
Brittany-O Crew invited to Fling!
Members of the Eighth Air Force Mass. Chapter are looking forward to seeing the crew members of the Brittany-O at our Fall Fling. The O'Meara's and Simones' are going to be most welcome guests. The Board of Directors voted not only to invite them but to award them a plaque expressing our gratitude. The crew kept us dry on our excellent cruise and we hope that someone has also warned them our Flings are dry!
HOW TO FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON
SERIOUS STUFF.... THE DUES QUESTION!!!
All are welcome to join the Eighth Air Force Historical Society. Dues are $20 a year! (It was just raised by the national organization.) You pay us twenty dollars only when you first join! After that, the National organization will bill you for $20 once a year. That's the only money involved. You get two issues of "Vapor Trails" and four issues of the highly professional Time magazine-sized "The Eighth Air Force News" as well as a chance to take part in the sort of fun events you read about in this issue. Please do NOT send your dues to our saintly treasurer once you've sent that first ten. You don't want to get on his WRONG side, do you?
UUUU HOME TO ARLINGTON UUUU
World War Two Aircraft and the bodies of those who died in them are still turning up after all these years. Ruins of a B-24 were found on Kitten Mountain in China's Guangxi Province in 1996. It had crashed after bombing Japanese ships near Formosa, now Taiwan, 8-31-44. The airmen's bodies were recovered and identified by our Department of Defense. Four airmen were buried privately here in the States and six were buried in Arlington National Cemetery in August 2000.
TEN HUT!
SPECIAL ORDER!
RENDEZ-VOUS
When: Thursday, November 2, 2000
Time: 11AM
Free coffee, registration.
Our PX opens!
Socializing.
Luncheon: Noon
Speaker: 1PM
Adjourn: 2PM
Where: Officers Cub, Hanscom AFB
Memorial Granted Final Approval!
The final architectural design of the WWII Memorial was approved
by the National Capital Planning Commission on September 21. To learn more, and to get
links to high-res images of the final design, click here.
Groundbreaking
Ceremony Set for Veterans Day
Vice President
AFHS President
Secretary
Treasurer
Editor of Vapor Trails
The National World War II Memorial Groundbreaking Ceremony will
take place on Veterans Day, Saturday, November 11th on the National Mall in Washington,
D.C. If you are planning to attend, please check their groundbreaking information page here.
Alfred E. Ducey
447BG
[email protected]
William Campbell
John McKernan
Carl Wood
[email protected]
John
Brennan
[email protected]
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