Posted: January 7, 2004 A little web research found for me
a new virtual web hosting company. I have acquired what I hope to be a
solid, long term web relationship with the new provider, Canaca. In a
short period of time, most of the content from both of my existing sites will
solely be on the new service. The "front door" will still be the same as
it has been since 1998, and all hot links will direct the visitor to the proper
location. For those of you who have set Bookmarks or Favorites to areas on
the Annex site will soon find that they no longer work. Simply return to
the
Main web
page and use the new links to go to the new locations and set your new bookmarks
there. If you have any questions, problems or comments, please go to the
COMMUNICATE page and send me an email. Thanks and Happy New Year
2004! Cheers! Bob Freitag
Posted: December 30, 2003 Just in time for the new year,
I have made some changes to many of the pages on this web site. My goal
was to make it faster and easier to get the viewer to the materials that they
are interested in seeing. The contents of the whole site reside on two
different services that I pay for, and as of today, I close to the maximum disk
space limit on both. Should I receive more photos, I will look into
changing providers to acquire more space.
I plan to start going over many of the existing photo pages and incorporating
the new page structure for all, and hopefully this will also compress wasted
space and free up a little in the process. I am open to your comments and
suggestions as they pretain to this site, and as always, I thank you for your
continued support and visits, and especially for the many email comments that I
have received from you! Happy New Year 2004! Cheers! Bob Freitag
Posted: October 23, 2003 How many of you remember the numbers that
were assigned to the buildings you worked, ate, shopped, prayed, slept in, et
cetera.....? I am working on a very detailed base map that shows all the
buildings on base as of 1972/73. I am incorporating active hyperlinks in it to
display info or pictures when you "roll over a spot" with your mouse. The more
info I have on building numbers, the better the map can be. A smaller version of
the base map can be found in the KORAT BASE INFO link below. Any help or
information that you can provide would greatly be appreciated!!! Other sections
of the base will be added later ( flightline, MMS Bomb/Missile buildup area,
etc.). Thanks!
Posted: October 23, 2002 and updated Nov. 29,
2002 Finally got my 400 feet of super 8mm film
cleaned up, and converted to digital files. Am working on editing the two CDs of
the transferred film. When finished, I will place small video clips somewhere on
this site that you can view via your browser or media player. The quality isn't
the best, but for something 30 years old, it is better than looking at
non-moving photos! In looking at them, it sure makes me wish I had shot a lot
more film, but each 50ft roll of super 8mm film only ran 4 minutes, and at 19
and 20 years old, I wasn't overly concerned about my camera technique. On the
Korat Annex page now under Freitag video ....
Posted: September 24, 2002... New Adobe .pdf document placed on the
Annex page. This document was given to In-processing personnel to the 388th MMS
in 1970, and it shows the MMS squadron interest locations, as well as base
facilities. Blue and Red bus schedules as well. You will need an Adobe Acrobat
Reader ( Free from Adobe.com ) to view this document.
Posted: September 19, 2002 ... A recent Guestbook entry asked
about information on Norris F. (Fred) Bowers. I worked for Fred for one of the
two years I was stationed in Korat. I only had one photo with him in it ( he
really didn't care to be photographed as I remember, plus you didn't want to
piss off your boss!), and his daughter saw it and asked if there are others out
there who knew or worked for Fred. Especially wanted are photos that could be
shared with us on this site as well as his surviving family. Please contact me
at the email address on the lower section of this main page with your stories
and / or photos. Thanks in advance! Bob
*Greg Randall, part of the 552nd AEW&C in 1968 & 1970, sent along
some of his photos for all to see! Added August, 2008.
*Added 3 "stickers" that Vincent Scungio Jr. sent me to his page.
Added July 30, 2008.
*Added a Talkinator Chat Box on the Communicate Page. Let's see what
happens when a couple of folks visit at the same time and chat. Arrange to
meet some Korat pal(s) there at a predefined time and "talk"! Added July 28,
2008
*Rich Kopf sent a couple of vintage looking (read: well traveled!) photos
from his time at Korat. Added July 8, 2008.
*Bob Wood (388th OMS) has his photos and patches online. Added May
23, 2008.
* Vincent Scungio Jr, son of Maj. Vincent Scungio, MIA Nov. 4, 1966,
started by providing information I had requested on a couple of patches.
He is now sending more patches and photos of the 13th TFS and the Wild
Weasels. His page is online. May 19, 2008
*Updated Roscoe's page again as Jim Traywick provided updated photos of
Roscoe's Memorial on base at Korat in 2007. May 1, 2008.
*Updated the Roscoe page after "meeting" Charley Holton (via Dave McNeil
and friends) and getting personal information about Roscoe and Ray Lewis.
April 12, 2008
*Added a Reunions page. Send me info to post if you want to publicize
your event. Added March 16, 2008
*David Adams, 388th SPS K-9, sent photos of his fellow K-9 teams at
work. More to come. Added March 15, 2008
*Rodney Spader sent in 55 photos from his tour at Korat (71-72) with 388th
SPS. Feb. 27, 2008.
*Dennis Haney checked in with updated info about the TDY of the 67th TFS in
1972. Thanks Denny! Feb. 26, 2008
*Added another Joseph Hostetter video clip from his home movies. Feb. 23,
2008.
*I added 4 video clips taken from John Allen's Korat 8mm movies that I had
on video tape. John worked in the Munitions Storage Area (MSA) otherwise
called the Bomb Dump. Feb. 22,2008.
*Laird Worsham started sending his photos. The first four are online
now. Laird was with the 388th SPS in 1972/3. Posted Feb. 1,
2008. Many more added Feb. 5, 2008.
*Joseph Hostetter provided me with a tape of his Korat "home movies".
Working with them to put a few clips online for your viewing pleasure.
Clip 1 is first. Approx 2minutes 20 seconds in length, but the quality is
marginal due to age and the original conversion from film to tape. But
given our age, it is probably clearer then some of our memories, eh people????
Clip 6 also added. Posted: January 27, 2008
*More work on John Sari's photo page. There are now approximately
(I'm was too tired to count them all..) 134 photos here. Because of the
quantity, the page may load slowly, but the photos are worth it. John said
he has more slides to convert and we should see them in the near future.
January 27, 2008
* John Sari sent me over a hundred more photos from 1966. Until I can
put all of them on his page, I compiled a "movie" and converted it to use FLASH
to play it. To see it, go to the Audio/Video page and in the Video
section, use the pulldown menu to select the J.F. Sari Jr. movie. It is
just under 10megabytes in size and runs 12 minutes. Enjoy! More work
ongoing with the video. Posted January 24, 2008
*John Sari sent me some 1966 photos of signs of Christmas on base, plus a
picture of John then. Added January 10, 2008.
*Working on the video page(s). Setting up separate pages for each video
segment initially to be able to provide background info on segment. This
is a work in progress so please be patient..... Posted January 8,
2008
*I added an audio-video page that now contains the audio bytes from Katie,
and a test video movie I put together a couple of years ago. All should be
fine for Micro$oft IE browsers, but Firefox & MACs will be quirky for a
while. Jan.2, 2008
*Katie Pletcher Meyers provided us with a Sawadee Flyer from December 6,
1975 (see link below). She also provided me an audio tape of the Korat
AFTN broadcasts from sometime in 1975 with two DJs (Suzanne Ritter and Rik
DeLisle). Added December 31, 2007
*Tom Patocka (out of Tamuning, Guam) provided some Sawadee Flyers from
1975/76! I have put together a page for the Flyers and hope to add to the page
if you folks can find some "past" issues to contribute! Thanks Tom for getting
it started. Find them in the Maps & Documents section.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~freitag/Korat/maps.htm . October
13, 2007
*Eugene Molisee provided me via email (and via the Guestbook) with access
to his Korat photos from 1967-68. Added August 17, 2007
*Tom Comparet sent some of his photos of EB-66 engine work and other
assorted shots. Added June 15, 2007
*Aaron DiCello sent this photo of the Change of Command flyover from 1970-
Added May 20, 2007
*Marine MSgt Ed Gosselin provides new photos that compare
1960/70's photos to May 2007 while serving at Cobra Gold 2007 - Added May 19,
2007
* Otto Uebel sent another Karl Richter photo montage. Added to his page
February 25, 2007
* Tom Pirkle alerted me that there was NO email address
location on site. It is back in the Communicate page where it was before.
February 17, 2007
* Don Noll sent some photos and is looking for his old
buddies from "C" flight 388th SPS. January 31, 2007
* Come on troops! I need
more of your photos to put online for others to share! It has been a while since
new meat has come my way...Thanks! Bob Freitag 11/13/2006
* James E. 'Red'
Shaver (my old Korat pal)renewed communications and sent some of his Korat
photos. August 8, 2006
* Greg Nabors (Det.3) sent his Thailand photos (from
67/68) on his new page. April 29, 2006
* Jim Ahern sent a group of his
Thailand photos taken in Korat, Bangkok and Chiang Mai that I have put on his
new page. March 24, 2006
* Tom Segura sent in a group of his Korat patches that I have put (via a
link) on the Patches page. Feb.26, 2006
* Larry Anderson supplied his photos for his new page. September 14,
2005.
* Cliff Hendrix sent his photos for his page. More to come! July 6,
2005.
* Dave McNeil forwarded a correction concerning a photo on the Mo Seaver
page. June 27, 2005.
* Another Larry Mitchell patch, the 388th MMS patch. June 14,
2005.
* I have more photos to Larry Mitchell's page, and one new "Short" patch on
the patches page. May 31, 2005.
* I have been updating the video page (Super 8mm converted to video). Used
Movie Maker to "produce" some movie shorts composed from this original film
stock.
* Sim Artice has joined us with his photo contribution. March 18,
2005
* Dan Massola provided some more photos that I have added to his page, plus
I rearranged his page. Feb. 6, 2005
* Larry Mitchell has provided some of his photos of Korat from the 1966-67
timeframe. Please check them out on the Photo Directory page. Thanks
Larry!! - January 2005
* Finally, we have some new stuff to show!! Bruce Lazarus came through with
some very nice photos of 1966-1967 Korat RTAFB. Hope to see more from the
rest of you!! - Dec 14, 2004.
* Made small changes to the main index page so the users of Mozilla Firefox
and other browsers can see all of the buttons. 12-9-2004
* Roscoe page update from Otto Uebel and friends - with 2 pictures.
10-31-2004
* It has been MONTHS!!!! since anyone has offered to send any more
pictures.... PLEASE..all of you guys and gals who are visiting this site
who spent time in Korat, consider sharing your photos with others....even if you
see similar photos on the site, they don't have YOUR name attached to
them. When other visitors see this site, and see names of people they knew
and worked with in Korat, it sometimes is the first step to reconnecting with
them. PLEASE help keep this site fresh....it doesn't cost you anything but
time.....Bob
* Added Questions on the Communicate page to be able to
post pertinent questions from visitors. July 18, 2004
* Added the Stories pageJune 13, 2004. First story presented is "A
Ridge Too Far" by Joe Lee Burns. Hope to see more stories submitted!
* Added the Special Services Division's "Directory of Services" in the
Documents & Maps page. May 11, 2004
* Received a photo and document from Gary Shanafelt along with some nice
words about the site. His page is
now in the Photo Directory. - May 7, 2004
* Fixed the broken links in the Guestbook page to the archived Guestbook
entries in Adobe PDF format - April 4
* Added a patch from Larry Capsey on the Patches page. - March
3.
* Added photos from Jim Gagnon and Richard Ford to Photo Directory. - Feb.
23
* Working on the Base Info page to add, correct, and update the information
on the various components that
made up the total organization on
Korat. Adding hyperlinks to information from the Air Force Historical
Research
Agency when applicable. - Feb. 20 and ongoing.
* Added the link to the Patches page that existed on the old site. - Feb. 20
* Fixed the links to the Roscoe page. - Feb. 20
* Added new photos from John Vitka, who was at Korat from November 67 to
November 68 assigned to the
388 MMS and the 469 FIS. He was the
Load officer for the 469th. He would also like to hear from
anyone
who remembers him. - Feb. 17
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