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Picture from google earth. The Photos below were provided by Ralph L Emerson (Nov 56 - Nov 57)
The station c./1957
Another view of the station c./1957
Antenna Field
Timer (UE-1?)
Transmitters
Below a steep bluff, faced with intricate cut stone blocks and less than 50 feet from the high tide mark was a fresh water spring that flowed year round.... The water flowed into a cement catch basin and we pumped water out of it, in the AM to the station and in the late PM, water was pumped to the village, where it went flowed into a cement trough, where the villagers could get their water and take it to where they lived.... The pump house showed scars of WW ll, where bullets had hit it........
WWII 50ft LCM
LCM washed up on the beach after a typhoon passed by - local villagers assisting
LTJG Thomas Chilton (CO)
Ralph at the entrance (Notice the station name)
Standing L to R: ET2 Stoner; ET2 Miller; RM2 Hale; DC2 Elyis; FNEN
Morris; SN Button; SN Flick
Road Detail Jan 1957
Road Detail Jan 1957
Generator Room after it was painted SOME OF THE CREW
RM2 Jones at the "KEY"
FN Ahsue at work
EN3 Lo working on truck
HMC Steele and EN1Magee checking out the outboard motor
DC Haggbloom (Chips) and FN Ahsue in the DC Shop
EN1 Magee, HMC Steele, Lupton
EN1 Magee, FN Ahsue, BM2 Lupton
Chips at the wheel
Jim Ahsue at the front of the station
SN Packer & BM2 Lupton
Volleyball game
Chips in the rack
SN Davis, HM1 Baker, EN2 Givens, RM2 Jones, EN1 Magee
Ralph Emerson, Uyehiera, Magee, Lupton, Jones, Sadoco, Terp
Chips (DC3) and EN3 Karl Lo
ETC Francis "Porky" Beckwith in the pit
ET2 Calvin Miller in the pit
RM2 Jones thinking of home
To the
left is Miyagshima Island when I was there, no bridges existed, as
you see a bridge to the left....
The
village was supplied by taxi boats and you can see the village in
the foreground of the island.....
Our
life line was a 50' LCM and it was moored in the lagoon just over
the top of the green hill where the bridge connects
too............
Once a
week we would load the CO, driving one of our trucks, into the
well deck of the LCM and take him across to the main island for
food, mail, movies, pay and a PX run etc then return to Kim beach
late in the day and pick him up !!
The
station was at the far end of the island, about in the center, you
can see a brown area, that would be the spot....
On the
left side, about midway you can see a white dot, that would be
water tanks and over the bluff to the left was a spring that we
pumped water from......Twice a day, in the morning we pumped to
the station and in the afternoon to the village.........
In the
late 90's I was trying to track down what happened to my home away
from home and made a great contact, a X Marine who ran the U S O
at Camp Hansen
( USMC
base ) and he saw this picture on the front of a magazine at a
local bank and sent it to me...........
Kids and festival
The Habu was a deadly pit viper, which I reduced the Habu population by six .... I created this sign and put it on our only road about 100 yards from the station... Coincidentally all the snakes that met their demise were killed beyond this sign, except for one.... That one met his or her demise in the crews quarters....In the room used for the sea bag storage was kept hot ( 500 watt bulb burnt 24/7 ) to prevent mold, mildew etc. A skin that a snake had shed was found, so the CO wanted the building sealed and exhaust from one of the trucks flowed into the crews quarters for a day, did it kill the snake was the question.... A couple mornings later as everyone was getting ready for morning muster, one of the guys was sitting on the commode, when someone noticed a Habu coming out of a wooden box, which was used to hold paper towels just above his back...........Needless to say he made a fast exit with pants at half mast and the snake didn't live another day......... A young village boy was bitten in both lower legs, our HMC stayed with the boy all night using ice and tourniquets to control swelling till daylight and a USAF helicopter could fly him to a hospital............
The Lockheed '' Blackbird '' the A-12 ( CIA ) and SR-71 ( USAF ) nicknamed the Habu flying missions in and out of Kadena AFB Okinawa. The Habu patch was only awarded to the crews who had flown operational sorties..
Thanks Ralph!
"Mac" McLean Circa 1961
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