Caribou Photos
23149 at Tara Field
03762 Landing
05436 on the Flight Line
57th Aviation Company's 12386 torn apart by "VC Sapper" (So the official line goes) Photos by Bill Upton
39758 Playing "Hide and Go Seek"
73080 With Two Different Paint Jobs
This YAC-1 Caribou aircraft was on display at Lawson Airfield during Project Man, May 1 through May 4, 1960. It was the 5th and final YAC-1 TASTA (Transportation Test and Support Activity,
10 December 1974 A/C 73083 at Cairns AAF - Ft. Wainwright, AK Standing, L - R SSG Wuolukka - CE, SSG Williams - CE, SSG Kelly - Supply, Mr. Jacobson - Hawthorne Aviation. Kneeling, Jim Speerman - IP Civilian, Colonel Shields -P Chief of Test Division.
"Curse You, Blue Diamond"
"Gizmotch"
"Lone Wolf"
"Gray Tigers" of the 57th Aviation Company at Fort Sill, OK. Photos taken shortly before heading on an island hopping expedition to South Vietnam.
L-R Sp/4 Bill Upton, Capt. Tom Orr, WO Earl Gentry A/C 12591 "Old Oil Slick"
Post Card ca. 1965
Caribous in Vietnam carried any thing you might imagine. Pictured on the right in the light suit with a dark tie is Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam. He was later assassinated. In the very rear left is Sgt. Barton - Right is Bruce Jack, Tech Rep.
And at times we carried captured Viet Cong.
Loading Fuel Bladder
Unloading Jeep
LOLEX - Low Level Extraction by chute
Kentucky Colonel's Private Aircraft or What? You Tell Me!