Melville Air Station - Labrador, Canada
641st AC&W Squadron/U.S.A.F./C.A.F
Photos - Page 10

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6/22/07 - "I stumbled across your webb site by accident. I couldn't believe what I saw when I looked at the Vulcan bomber, page 4 picture 28. I have pictures of the same airplane, although I show it was June 1965. I was stationed at Goose AB from July 1964 to October 1965. I'm including a picture of Melville AS taken from an HU-16B shortly after takeoff from Goose AB. I have 40 or 50 pictures from there. - David Whittenberg. "

6/24/07 -"Robert, it was good to hear from you. First of all, you have my permission to post any of the photos I send you. Any of the open house may have June on them but it could have been May. It was a long time ago. My tour was a 15 month tour. That was always a sore spot with us. 6 miles bought you a 3 month shorter tour. In all fairness though, we did have alot better facilities.
    I was in the 4082nd  Supply Sq. I worked in Fuels, POL. I was there Jul. 64 to Oct. 65. We could have left on the same flight. Some of us went up to Melville a couple of times when it got close to payday. The drinks in your club were cheaper. 
  Strange as it may seem, the HU-16Bs belonged to SAC. They were used by pilots setting at a desk to get in their flying time. If you had been at the Goose long enough you got picked to go to fish camp in the summer for about 4 days. My group went up in a HU-16 and came back in a U-1A. Air Rescue had several HC-54. "

6/26/07 - "I'm including a picture of an ADC B-57 that came through Goose Bay. I'm sure you came across one of these before.  Also some pictures of Goose AB from air from an U-1. They were assigned to SAC.  I also have
some pictures taken in the spring of 1965 of what was left of the C-133 that crashed in November of 1964."

6/27/07 - "Bob, the HU-16 at Goose also had a SAC shield on it, at least while I was there.  The U-1 was a good
low level airplane but it didn't have much of a bomb load. I have seen it carry just about every thing else, including outboard motors. When I frist found out that I was going to Goose Bay, I though I would be getting out of SAC. It didn't turn out that way. - Dave"



Thank you very much for contributing these photos Dave, they are beautiful shots of "The Goose!"
(incidentally, the background music playing is the 1955 hit by the Four Lads....."Moments to Remember")

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  1.  Vulcan bomber,  Goose Air Base airshow, 1965.
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  4.  Canadian side of Goose Air Base, Summer of 1965.
  5.  Crew of RCAF C-119 Goose Air Base airshow, 1965.
  6.  View of Melville Air Station taken from  an HU-16B..
  7.  Goose Air Base, July 1965.
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  9.  U-1A coming in Summer 1965.
10.  U-1A_getting_ready_to_leave_with_the_rist_load_summer_1965.
11.  C-133A that crashed Dec 64 in Spring 1965.
12.  Parts of C-133A that crashed Dec 64 in Spring 1965.
13.  Parts of C-133A that crashed Dec 64 in Spring 1965.
13.  Parts of C-133A that crashed Dec 64 in Spring 1965.
14.  Parts of C-133A that crashed in Dec 64 shown in Spring 1965.
15.  B-57 ADC Late Summer Goose AB 1965.
 

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