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 15th Aviation Group DUI |
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| (Source: Yearbook of the 15th Aviation Group (Cbt), "Flying Mustangs," 1969-1970, submitted by Hanno Englaender, Germany) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (1) US Army Flight Operations Facility, Europe (2) USAREUR Aviation Safety and Standardization Detachment - originally based at the Schleissheim AAF near Munich; moved to Gablingen in 1967 (?) |
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| If you have more information on the history or organization of the 15th Aviation Gp, please contact me. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 122nd Aviation Company (Aerial Surveillance) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| See "Border Aerial Surveillance" on the Overview Page, Army Aviation section, for some information on the 122nd Avn Co's role in providing aerial surveillance along the West German border to East Germany and Czechoslovakia during the 1960s. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| (Source: Email from Larry A. Magnello, 351st Avn Co) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| After I left the 1st Air Cav Division in Vietnam at
end of 1970, I was sent to 351st Avn Co located at
Wertheim, southern Germany. Our main base was out of
Schweinfurt, Germany. They
never said much to us about the structure of the unit.
I flew once to Schweinfurt base but don't know the
battalion. I was the flight medic there and worked with the Flight surgeon there who black mailed the pilots in order to let them fly their helicopters or he would flunk them on the flight physicals. We had just Hueys there and one spotter airplane. We lost one huey on medivac and it crashed into the mountain at night during rain and they all died including a medic sergeant Rayburn who had a silver star and 3 purple hearts. Was a nice place and unit sitting on a mountain across the valley was a castle. Best part of my army tour of duty. |
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| Related Links: 122nd Aviation Company - Walter Lafford and Gary Holt have created a web page dedicated to this unique aerial surveillance unit in Germany flying the OV-1 Mohawk. |
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