Living In Occupied Japan 1946 to 1949
After 12 days on a troop ship enroute to Japan, I became a member of the 317th Troop Carrier Group, stationed at Tachikawa Japan from early 1946 to late spring […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
The Berlin Airlift, As Remember It
From the middle of 1946 to early summer of 1949, I was assigned to the 317th Troop Carrier Group stationed at Tachikawa Japan. The mission for our group was to […]
B-52 Memories
I piloted the B-52D aircraft, number 56-676, now on display, several times while stationed at Fairchild AFB, Washington from 1954 to 1964. My first fight with it was on February […]
Big and Beautiful, Flying the B-36 Peacemaker
Wow! Can this big hunk of metal really get off the ground? I must be looking at a thousand square feet of aluminum skin, along with a million different parts, […]
A B-36 Story from long ago.
There is a small group of Airmen, numbering less than .01% of the entire Air Force, of which I am a member. When you think of the thousands who wear […]
Operation Chromedome, The USAF Strategic Air Command
Written by Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF Operation Chromedome was a top secret military exercise conducted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It evolved as the “Cold War” heated […]
Stories and memories of Col. Francis Harold Potter, USAF (1921-2009) 