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| Some of the oritginal Det A 114th SSC ASA team at Rothwesten, '49. |
| Our hi-tech classified burn facility, Det A 114th Sig Svc Co, Rothwesten Cpl Stan Heil packing heat. His assistant name, CRS,sorry - think same troop in photo below seated on stump in woods. Gonna look thru files one of these days and name the little guy - he was not at R'westen long before my DEROS. |
| One of the ASA troops in the second group assigned to Det A 114th SSC, in woods just inside United States/Russian zone border, above Fulda Gap, 1950. His name, Sorry, CRS has me by the throat - he had about 10,000 freckles tho!!! |
| Our original Intercept Equipment, SCR 399s w/PE-95s loaded on "GMMY" deuce and a halfs, ready to roll to Rothwesten, 1949 |
| Cpl Cliff Hoyt and Pfc Howie Lutz, at the entrance to our Barracks and operations site, Rothwesten 1949. |
| Cpl Jim Lynn, one of the original Det A 114th Sig Svc Co ASAers at Rothwesten 1949. I was assigned to the Huff-Duff site out on the old runway. This "unmilitary" photo, standing atop Herkules Castle. Kassel City in background |
| l/r: Cpl Boliver O'Rear, Russian Linguist TSgt Hardeman, Team Leader. one talented "fist" and terrific leader. Cpl Carmine F, DeAngelis, NY City, he and I were two of the four man "Huff-Duff" team. Cpl "Fritz" , Russian Linguist Cpl Sam Bobier, Upstate New York Cpl Bill Raspillar (Sam & Bill displaying secret one finger message later used by crew of the Pueblo when they were forced to pose for photos in North Korean prison). |
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| Sam and Bill displaying secret one finger hand signal later used by crew of USS Pueblo, posing for photo in North Korean Prison |
| Little story goes w/this equip, TSgt Hardeman and some of the first ASA troops at R'westen. We went out on a field problem, set up somewhere ENE of the Town of Fulda, Germany. Apparently the goal of this event was to test Radio Signal reception of certain targets further to the NE. As we were listening a few days after setting up, a Rusky Military radio o/s came on, calling his NCS - obviously low level and w/a green horn operator. He did not rec. an answer after a long period of calling. TSgt Hardeman, big hearted, said - that poor kid is going to ruin his arm - we better help him out. So, cranking up the BC-610 (which was a no-no) for us, the good Sgt slapped the leg mount J-38, answering the kid.. BAM..right back came the Rusky - man, as if he had suddenly found his long lost pet dog... in just a minute tho another fist came on the Rusky Freq.,, sent a authentication challenge - course we could not authenticate - tried several stalls,, QRM,, QRN,, QSA 2,, dead silence, the poor Rusky Operator probably finished a promising USSR Army career diggin frozen "Kertaufels" out of some Siberian snowbank.. if he lived that long.. |