Monday, June 18 and Friday, June 22nd – 6 PM Cocktails/Casual dinner – Hilton Garden Inn
Tuesday, June 19 – BBQ – Ft Wayne Aero Center – After last flight
Wednesday, June 20th – 6 PM Cocktails/Dinner. Fort Wayne Country Club (Tux/Mess Dress)
Attendees:
Jay Riedel
John Stewart
Carl Lyday
Bud Green
Robert Salisbury
Richard Weizenegger
Charles Neel
Darrell Couch
Dusty West
Raymond Kleber
Robert Terbet
Bob Hopkins
Scott Krause
Phillip Hawkins
Michael Paradise
Kurt Kristiansen
Pete Johnson
Robert Keating
Dwight Wilson
William Burleigh
Leo Mansuetti
William Means
A week long flying the F-100 has started in Fort Wayne at the Aero Center with Dean Cutshall and Super Sabre Society members. Photo credit …Cathe Johnson...
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Medal of Honor Recipient Bud Day Posthumously Promoted Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein posthumously promoted former prison of war and Medal of Honor recipient retired Col. Bud Day to brigadier general during a summer concert series at the Air Force Memorial on Friday evening. Goldfein used......
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Formerly called, "Decoration Day," and established to decorate the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, the last Monday in May is now called, "Memorial Day," on which we honor the memory of those who have fallen during service to their country. The shopping malls will be full of sales; streets full of parades, flags, bent veterans and marching bands; hot dogs in backyards; laughing children; some fireworks; baseball games; small flags by white grave markers in Arlington and military cemeteries across the country. For we members of the Super Sabre Society, today has a special meaning – memories of friends gone, but well-remembered. We see their faces, hear their voices and remember their laughs – our friends, our classmates, squadron mates, wingmen, commanders. We flew together in good weather and bad, over land and water, day and night. We drank together in bars from Rangoon to Racine; deployed to Europe and North Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. We sat nuclear alert and fought together dodging AAA, ground fire and SAMs, and a couple even had MiG encounters. We loved tankers, Sandys, Jolly Greens and PJ’s. We ran to bunkers under rocket and mortar attack. We scrambled from alert and pulled out all stops to support our ground troops....
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Half our daily website traffic reads Biographies…about 150 each day....
16 May, 2018 No comment 0 LikesTo date, we have added and updated 595 bio pages for members. We began with 100 just over a year ago. There are still more than 700 to go and we are making progress every week. Why does this matter? Every journey, every narrative, every......
14 May, 2018 No comment 0 LikesI had the pleasure of working for Jack VanLoan for two years as Squadron/Group Commander…he loved to visit Patrick AFB and fly our OV-10’s! I admire him for being a man of his word, click the link below to see his interview about his time......
14 May, 2018 No comment 1 LikeIn June, dozens of SSS members will push the stick button and taxi Dean Cutshall’s pristine F-100F from the Fort Wayne Airport Aero Center. Flyers and observers can watch this action-filled week from near the runway and should sign up at this link on our......
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Lance LaGrange was raised in Maspeth, NY and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York with a BSEE Degree. He also graduated at the top of his USAF pilot training class 68A at Craig AFB. His first operational assignment was flying F- 100s with the 306th......
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Much has been written about the war – who won, who lost; whether we should have been there at all. We tried to stop the supplies coming south; we supported our troops on the ground; we fought with and for our South Vietnamese allies. We......
29 March, 2018 No comment 0 LikesRemembrance of Ron Bewley by SSS member Jerry Wetterling Ron and I went, consecutively, through Class 68A at Vance AFB, OK, F-100 RTU Class 68FR at Cannon AFB, NM, and were also together in the 31st Wing at Tuy Hoa AB, RVN, June ’68 to......
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Super Sabre Society member Richard “Bubba” Heinisch, 83, of Kansas City, Missouri, headed west Friday, May 4, 2018, at NorthCare Hospice House. He was born August 7, 1934 in Topeka, KS, to parents Alfred and Rose Heinisch. He attended Hayden High School and St. Benedict’s......
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Lance LaGrange was raised in Maspeth, NY and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York with a BSEE Degree. He also graduated at the top of his USAF pilot training class 68A at Craig AFB. His first operational assignment was flying F- 100s with the 306th......
01 May, 2018 No comment 0 LikesClayton E. Fox, February 9, 1933 – February 4, 2018, an early F-100 pilot, headed west, surrounded by family and friends, in Mountain View, California, on February 4th, 2018. Clay was born in Rockford, Illinois, and grew up in Marengo, where he attended high school.......
01 May, 2018 No comment 0 LikesJames A. (Jim) Bustle, Lt. Col. (USAF Ret.), 86, of Alexandria, LA, Headed West November 21, 2017. Jim proudly served our country in the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War as an F-100 fighter pilot and later with the 23rd TAC Fighter Wing as an......
18 April, 2018 No comment 0 LikesLt. Col Donald L. Abbott, USAF (Ret) Headed West October 16, 2017. Don was born November 23, 1932 to Gerald L. and Bertha M. (Roberts) Abbott of Maple Rapids. Don graduated from USAF Pilot training class 54F (1964) and was selected to fly USAF Fighters. He......
15 April, 2018 No comment 3 LikesJon Prescott Haddock Headed West – A gathering of family and friends for Jon Prescott Haddock, 77, will be held in Columbia, S.C., Friday, April 13, 2018 from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel. Interment will be held at a later......
12 April, 2018 No comment 0 LikesJames Thomas “Jim” Harwood (87), of Hot Springs, Arkansas headed west March 10, 2018. He was born Feb. 2, 1931, in Jonesboro, Ark., to Thomas and Pauline (Summers) Harwood. He is predeceased by his son, Raymond; brother, Marc; and sister, Joan. Jim is survived by......
23 March, 2018 No comment 0 LikesRemembrance of Ron Bewley by SSS member Jerry Wetterling Ron and I went, consecutively, through Class 68A at Vance AFB, OK, F-100 RTU Class 68FR at Cannon AFB, NM, and were also together in the 31st Wing at Tuy Hoa AB, RVN, June ’68 to......
21 March, 2018 No comment 3 LikesSSS Member Robert “Bob” Speilman of Reno NV, headed west February 26, 2018. He’s survived by his wife Debbie (Bob and Debbie photo left). Bob was an honors graduate of Trinity Colllege in CT. After USAF Pilot training, he flew the F-100’s with the 36TFS, Itazuke, Japan......
10 March, 2018 No comment 3 LikesSSS Member Ferdinand “Jack” Funke, 78, of Boise, ID Headed West Sunday, February 11, 2018, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Jack said, “If this obituary has been published, then I have slipped the surly bonds and flown West.” Jack was born October 29,......
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