Monday, July 17, 2006

Still more Ra5cs I have gotten my scanner to work again. I checked the Microtek site and found they had written a OS 9 driver for the 3600 series scanner and I can still boot this ibook into OS 9. It had seemed that previously they had nothing newer than an OS 8.6 driver so I was stuck. I have new scans now of old but still good pictures. This is a picture of two planes, Ra5c Vigilantes, from RVAH 3 not RVAH 7 which I was attached to, below them is (I think) fort Zachary Taylor which is on a 'dry tortuga' a few miles beyond Key West. RVAH 3 was the wing's training squadron [note 09Dec06 it is not Fort Taylor or any Fort Jackson as the jpg is named, but Fort Jefferson that is in the Dry Tortugas National Park.] I also want to mention a comment I received on a post from last year just today. I have mentioned people I knew back then from time to time and someone wrote in to ask if I knew how get in touch with a officer I knew back then, Lcdr Paul Habel. Unfortunately I don't. I haven't seen any one of those people in over twenty years. But on the off chance that someone drawn to this page by the irresistable image of the RA5C, does know his whereabouts. Henner Lenhardt would like to contact Mr. Habel to ask him about "a book he gave my father." The book is One Day in a Long War: Air War, North Vietnam, May 10, 1972. which is about the opening day of air offensive Operation Linebacker. One thing I did turn up (I am repeating most of my reply comment here, but what the heck) Admiral Fallon who is the current commander U S Pacific command is a former Ra5c pilot he would have been in one of the RVAH squadrons and served in the wing staff, CRAW 1. I will revisit this theme occasionally as I scan more pictures. 11:27:20 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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