Melville Air Station-Stories/Articles Page

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

Welcome to Melville Air Station! We hope you stay awhile and take the website tour of the 641st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, starting at the Home Page. Optionally, from the Home Page you may simply click directly on any page you would like to view....the choice is yours. Enjoy, and please stop again soon to visit!

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Radar article:
This is a RADAR story...from the New Jersey Legionnaire, August 2000.

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*1964 C-133 Crash

This brief eye witness account of the crash of a C-133 at Goose comes from Chris Charland, U.S.AF. Public Affairs Officer.
"Just a quick note to say thank you ever so much for the Melville Air ForceStation site. I was an 'Air Force Brat' at Goose from June 1964 to June 1967. I have such wonderful memories living there. The only truly sad occasion happened on the 7th of November 1964, when a Douglas C-133 Cargomaster crashed and blew up about 500 feet in front of me. I was on the perimeter road by the P.O.L tank farm when it crashed killing seven crew members. The Dover-based aircraft was enroute to Sondestrom with a full load of provisions including tons of meat. Icing caused the aircraft to stall and literally fall out of the sky." Thank you for this story Chris!

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Read this excerpt from a special supplement to "The Journal" Crosby, North Dakota, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Fortuna AFS.

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Richard Sievert sent this along: "Came from Keesler AFB Radar Mtce School to Goose and returned to Eglin AFB, FLA to the Air Proving Ground Command and worked ECM the rest of my tour. Spent part of the remainder at Eglin AFB and the rest at a remote site, Site 37 at Robbins AFB GA."
A/1C Richard E. Sievert
641st AC&W
Nov 7,1953 thru Dec 20, 1954
Radar Maintenance on CPS-5, CPS-6B

Thanks Richard, nice to hear from you!
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