Melville Air Station - Labrador, Canada
641st AC&W Squadron/U.S.A.F./C.A.F
Photos - Page 3

Welcome to Melville  Air Station!  Take a website tour of the 641st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron via the photos on this page, or start on page 1.  This is page 3!

All below photos are from the May 1965 Armed Forces Day Air Show)

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14) Kaman HH-43 Rescue choppers from the 54th Air Rescue Squadron and KC-135 refueller at Goose Air Base.

15) B-47 Stratojet - Goose Air Base.

16) Canadian C-119G Flying Box Car at Goose Air Base.

17) R.C.A.F. CC-106 Yukon aircraft and RC-121 at Goose Air Base.

18) R.C.A.F. CC-106 Yukon from No. 437 "Husky" (T) Squadron from Station Trenton, Ontario.

*19) R.A.F. Hawker Siddeley (Avro) Vulcan Medium Bomber.

*20) Boeing B-52G Stratofortress bomber with aircrew from this aircraft and R.A.F. Vulcan crew.
(if anyone has any information on the people in photo 20, please let me know.  The USAF Captain's name tag says "Walsh" on it.  The B-52G aircraft number is 6498.  I took this photo in 1965, but neglected to get names! )

 Thanks to Ren L'Ecuyer (and others), the "unknown" RCAF aircraft have been identified!  Here are his comments:
"Your photo #16 is an RCAF C-119 Flying Boxcar - The USAF had a similar aircraft."

"Your Photo #18 is an RCAF CC-106 Yukon aircraft used to transport personnel across Canada and to/from Europe. This was a Canadian designed aircraft. We made use of the Yukon for about 10 years before it was replaced with the Boeing 707 transport."

*Thank you also to Chris Charland for the additional information regarding the above photos!   Some comments from Chris:
"The rescue helicopters pictured are Kaman HH-43 Huskies of the 54th Air Rescue Squadron based at Goose.  The unit also flew the Douglas SC-54 Searchmaster, Grumman HU-16 Albatross and the de Havilland Canada U-1 Otter (wheels/skis/floats).  It is interesting to note that the U.S.A.F. only had four Otters in service and they were all at Goose".
 

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21) "Pinetree at twilight"(circa 1959?)  A truly OUTSTANDING PHOTO contributed by "Mac" McSweeney (many thanks Mac!)
22) 641st Operations Center - Here are some comments from Mac-
"Bob, I forgot I had another picture of the inside of the Ops room when we remodeled it in 1960. We had to use the Battle Staff Room as an Ops Room.We had a little 20X30 plotting board that we leaned up against the wall and sat underneath it on the floor to plot. Did that for about 2 months til they redid the plotting boards and communications in the big Ops Room." - thanks again Mac, this sure brings back memories to the OPS troops!  I notice in this photo it appears the Weather board is to the right of the main plotting board.  I do believe it was moved to the left side later, along with the status board.  The M&I(Movements and Identification) board was located right in front and left of these boards.  Right behind the Weather board in this photo was the door leading to the radio station, affectionately known as "WMEL"...anyone have memories of this?!
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