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Much of the footage for the Viet Nam era clips was shot by my contemporaries. The "300th Photo Mission" clip looks to be Da Nang, 600th Photo Sq. Never met Sgt. Winters, but many other MoPiccers of the 600th/601st a couple years later.
AAVS (Aerospace Audio-Visual Squadron) was what Combat Camera was called then.
That Laos SAR footage was stitched together at Norton, ISTR, and was widely distributed around the USAF. I wish they'd have given the by-lines for the guys who shot that stuff. I think I know who did a lot of it. I fought like H3 ell-ell to get photo credits for the photogs instead of the usual: "USAF Photo" tag. "Sometimes chicken, sometimes feathers" as MSgt. Bob Carr would say. Could usually get credit lines for feature stuff that went into "Airman" magazine, the "Stars and Stripes" publications would usually credit, base newspapers were always willing.
One outstanding fellow still photog was SSgt. Herman J. Kokojan. Herm was a friend and an outstanding guy all-around. Somehow <span style="font-style: italic">we</span> could always get credit lines. :wink:
Neat stuff, Nial. Thanks for steering us to it! :thumbsup:
Much of the footage for the Viet Nam era clips was shot by my contemporaries. The "300th Photo Mission" clip looks to be Da Nang, 600th Photo Sq. Never met Sgt. Winters, but many other MoPiccers of the 600th/601st a couple years later.
AAVS (Aerospace Audio-Visual Squadron) was what Combat Camera was called then.
That Laos SAR footage was stitched together at Norton, ISTR, and was widely distributed around the USAF. I wish they'd have given the by-lines for the guys who shot that stuff. I think I know who did a lot of it. I fought like H3 ell-ell to get photo credits for the photogs instead of the usual: "USAF Photo" tag. "Sometimes chicken, sometimes feathers" as MSgt. Bob Carr would say. Could usually get credit lines for feature stuff that went into "Airman" magazine, the "Stars and Stripes" publications would usually credit, base newspapers were always willing.
One outstanding fellow still photog was SSgt. Herman J. Kokojan. Herm was a friend and an outstanding guy all-around. Somehow <span style="font-style: italic">we</span> could always get credit lines. :wink:
Neat stuff, Nial. Thanks for steering us to it! :thumbsup:
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I really enjoyed the "How Dangerous is that Drop Tank" film, not just for the few good shots of the Hellcats in action but also for the mythbusters type approach to blowing stuff up.
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Too cool. In the next week or so I'll have the chance to visit an operational Predator facility..I have a pal...a geezer actually (60) that is a retired
AF pilot who was invited back to fly the drones...and he loves it. He hangs at my shop when not in the "box" and has a large vehicle collection back home so feels at home at my place. I was suprised to get the ok but I guess my past with SOS and working TWA on flying command posts made me reliable.
AF pilot who was invited back to fly the drones...and he loves it. He hangs at my shop when not in the "box" and has a large vehicle collection back home so feels at home at my place. I was suprised to get the ok but I guess my past with SOS and working TWA on flying command posts made me reliable.