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Post by Mark O on Mar 4, 2008 23:39:32 GMT 9
This video is in two parts over on YouTube. Very funny stuff and worth watching. You should be able to go to part two without coming back to this page but I'll put both links up. Watch them in order and read the narrative the guy put on YouTube about the video. Here's Part 1 And here's Part 2 Enjoy!  |
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Post by pat perry on Mar 5, 2008 2:09:20 GMT 9
This video is in two parts over on YouTube. Very funny stuff and worth watching. You should be able to go to part two without coming back to this page but I'll put both links up. Watch them in order and read the narrative the guy put on YouTube about the video. Here's Part 1 And here's Part 2 Enjoy! Hi Mark, What an absolute HOOOOT! Thanks for sharing. Pat Perry |
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Mar 9, 2008 2:12:41 GMT 9
I was in the 13th FIS at Sioux City Air Base, Iowa when the movie was made by the Geiger Tigers. It was even funnier to watch to-day than it was in the mid 1950's. I don't recall, but think it was made about 1956 at Yuma Air Base, Arizona. Yuma was later named Vincent Air Force Base after Gen. Casey Vincnet who had been a Flying Tiger.
The base at Yuma had not been well developed when the movie was made. We actually slept in those tents until a barracks was built. The areas between the runways had road oil on them to keep the sand from blowing. What a place.
The 13th FIS was the Snorting Bulls. We had F86D's and late L's.
I was at Sioux City from November 1952 until September 1959.
When I got there the fighter squadron was the 87th FIS, equipped with F51's fresh from Korea. The national guard squadron later got F80's and in 1954 the 14th FIS was founded and equipped with F86D's.
We all went to Yuma in those years for gunnery and the beginnings of William Tell. One year I spent over 6 months at Yuma. Quite the place.
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