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| Current Message 1 - September 17, 2007 |
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Entry: 62320
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
238 AAA Gun Btln. |
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Don Petch wrote on 2007-09-17 22:08:49.0
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| Current Message 2 - September 15, 2007 |
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Entry: 62294
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
Itazuke Airbase |
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Donald Petch wrote on 2007-09-15 00:46:24.0
Comments: Just wondering if there are any Headquarters battery active in the Korean War Project?
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| Current Message 3 - September 26, 2005 |
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Entry: 53315
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
THE GOOD OLD DAYS? |
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donald larson wrote on 2005-09-26 00:00:00.0
Comments: IS anyone out there?
Keywords: Itizuki air force base
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| Current Message 4 - August 21, 2005 |
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Entry: 52758
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
antone out there? |
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donald larson wrote on 2005-08-21 00:00:00.0
Comments: Is anyone out there? Leon Berning and I are still in Oregon, Wiley Lewis is on the phone in Oklahoma..Would like to hear from anyone. Don
Keywords: quad mount, VD bridge, Angry nine.
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| Current Message 5 - June 12, 2005 |
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Entry: 51485
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
238th Battery D and Battery A 1956-157 |
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Donald Johnson wrote on 2005-06-12 00:00:00.0
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Keywords: Itazukie Kerinjomie dog track
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| Current Message 6 - December 23, 2002 |
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Entry: 30600
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
238 at Itazuke Air Base Fukuoka, Japan |
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ROBERT A. (BOB) Lingane wrote on 2002-12-23 22:28:02.0
Comments: The air strip at Itazuke Air base is now Fukuoka International Airport. The annex is all built up with a college dorm and multiple high rises all around. Even the rice paddies are all built on. The only thing left that can be recognized is the parade ground.
Keywords: Itazuke Air Strip and Annex
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| Current Message 7 - November 25, 2002 |
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Entry: 29883
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
Greetings to all 238th members |
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KENNETH M. Shaw wrote on 2002-11-25 14:02:39.0
Comments: Looking to correspond with old friends from the 238th AAA Gn Bn especially those from Battery B
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| Current Message 8 - August 19, 2002 |
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Entry: 27703
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
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Donald Petch wrote on 2002-08-19 18:29:04.0
Comments: Departed Itazuke, Japan with first contingent of draftees to be sent home. Discharged in September of 1952. Retired Firefighter from Parma, Ohio Upon retirement from FD, moved to Supply,NC where I worked for a beach resort and wrote free lance for newspapers and magazines. Just wondering how many former 238th AAA Gun Btln. members still exist. I note by the list that there are a few. I'm enjoying my retirement. I'm kayaking the local rivers where I count alligators. Active in the Coast Guard Auxilliary
Keywords: John Gondek Armand Boehnlein
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| Current Message 9 - October 7, 2001 |
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Entry: 19828
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
238 AAA Gun Bn. |
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ROBERT A. (BOB) Lingane wrote on 2001-10-07 20:42:11.0
Comments: My experience is pretty much the same as the poster on November 1997. Drafted in Jan. took my basic at Ft. Devens with the 24th Sig Ser. Bn. I went to Radio operators school at For Dix. Then returned to the 24th. We set up the communications network for the maneuvers that were held at Fort Bragg. When we returned to Devens I was transferred to the 238th AAA. We took a train with the outfit and cannons to Washington where we set sail on the USS Marine Phoenix. There was another Ack Ack outfit on board also from Pennsylvania I believe. One of us was to be assigned to a Marine outfit and the guns were to be used as anti-personnel weapons. Pretty much as the Germans did in WW II with their 88 millimeters. We must have said the most prayers because we were unloaded at Yokohama. I didn't stay at Zama for more than a day or so, when myself and a cadre were shipped out in advance to set up the gun emplacements and Hqtrs at Fukuoka. I only remember working on Battery Dsemplacement for it was the closest to Itazuke. Sometime in the late spring the 238th went home and were named the 53rd AAA Gun Bn. We didn't do too bad. We defeated the Airforce in the Fast pitch softball tournament. And our baseball team also gave a pretty good accounting of itself. Not bad for a handful of Dogfaces amongst an army and a half of Airforce personell.
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| Current Message 10 - June 16, 2001 |
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Entry: 17370
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LEWIS (OWEN) Tooker wrote on 2001-06-16 17:40:26.0
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| Current Message 11 - May 13, 2001 |
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Entry: 16538
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Reunions? |
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Cecil Tillis wrote on 2001-05-13 19:44:30.0
Comments: B COMPANY
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| Current Message 12 - January 2, 2001 |
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Entry: 14000
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Looking for WWII 216th AAA Veterans |
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Ralph Roner wrote on 2001-01-02 00:43:26.0
Comments: My grandfather, Joseph C. Coleman served in the 216th AAA Gun Battalion.
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| Current Message 13 - October 31, 2000 |
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Entry: 12650
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Looking for 216th AAA Gun Battalion Members |
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Keith Swango wrote on 2000-10-31 12:17:57.0
Comments: I'm looking for any World War II Veterans of the 216th AAA Gun Battalion. If anyone has info please feel free to email me. keith@aosi.com
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| Current Message 14 - September 8, 2000 |
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Entry: 11564
238th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Bn - Japan |
238th AAA Gun Bn |
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Gaspar Ingui wrote on 2000-09-08 14:47:22.0
Comments: To all that we haven't seen in 50 yrs. we still remember you as friends and brothers.
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238th AAA Gn Bn
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997
"JERRY L. BREWER" E-mail wrote:
I was drafted in March 1951 and sent to Camp Stewart Ga. to help bring a
National Guard unit to oerational strength, The 238th AAA Gn Bn of New
London Ct.
We shipped out from Ft. Lawton Washington bound for Korea in the fall
of 1951. While in Transit our orders were changed and we were dropped
off at Yokohama, for no stated reason.
Years later I learned this coincided with a command decision to bring
only units to Korea that were fully mobile. We were equipped with
90mmM1A1 guns that were only semi-moble at best. Since all of the AAA
units which reached Korea were equiped with 90mmMk2 guns, We were
picked because of our state of readiness. I surmise that someone didn't
check the 238th out before the shipping order was written.
After laying around Camp Zama for a few weeks we were sent south to
Itazuke Air base near Fukuoka. The four Batterys set up a perimeter
defense screen around the air base. I was in Battery B which was about
seven miles from Itazuke right on the shore of Hakata Bay.
We were operational during the entire war but obviously we were never in
harms way. We were attached to the Air Force who fed and clothed us. We
were surounded by numerous other rear echelon units. We were an exellent
unit to be inspected when the brass had nothing else to do.
Jerry L. Brewer
705 Carnation Dr.
Richardson Tx 75082
972-918-9785
business: 972-475-2045
Email; jlbrewer@gte:net
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