Hangar Digest THE MUSEUM Page 1 Hangar digest VOLUME 18, NO. 2 APR—JUN 2018

THE AMCM HANGAR DIGEST IS A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE AMC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC. Page 2 Volume 18, Issue 2 Air Mobility Command Museum Mission Statement The mission of the Air Mobility Command Museum is twofold: ● To present the history and development of military airlift and tanker operations. ● In a goal closely aligned with the first, to portray the rich history of and its predecessor, Dover Army Airfield. AMC Museum Staff AMC Museum Foundation Director Board of Directors The AMC Museum Hangar John Taylor President Digest is published quar- Deputy Director Col. Don Sloan, USAFR (Ret.) terly and is dedicated to Kristopher Hickok Vice President the preservation of our Senior Archivist Lt. Col. Paul Gillis, USAFR (Ret.) airlift and tanker herit- Lt. Col. Harry E. Heist, USAF (Ret.) Secretary age. All articles, unless Photo Archivist Lt. Col. Phil White, USAF (Ret.) otherwise noted, are writ- SMSgt. Larry Koewing, USAF (Ret.) Treasurer ten by the editor. Collections Manager Mrs. Chris Godek Viewpoints in this publica- Deborah Sellars Members tion are those of the contrib- Educator Mr. Robert Berglund uting authors and do not nec- Tricia Upchurch Mr. Carleton E. Carey Sr. essarily reflect the opinions of Museum Store Manager Mr. Robert Czeizinger Kelly Hurlburt The AMC Museum Founda- Lt. Gen. Bob Dierker, USAF (Ret.) Volunteer Coordinator/Scheduler CW4 Jim Fazekas, USA (Ret.) tion or of the Museum’s staff. Paul George Subscriptions are free and Mr. Skip Ford Librarian Mr. Jeff Kirwan are mailed via nonprofit MSgt. Bob Wikso, USAF (Ret.) SMSgt. Mike Leister, USAFR (Ret.) standard mail to paid-up Membership Manager Mr. Bob Mench members of The AMC Muse- Deborah Sellars CMSgt. Rodney Moore, USAFR (Ret.) um Foundation Inc. Website (www.amcmuseum.org) CMSgt. Paul Roy, USAF (Ret.) Contributions. Reader com- Hal Sellars ments, articles and ideas are AMCM Social Media Manager Chaplain solicited for future issues. Guy Gola Chaplain (Lt. Col.) John Groth, USAFR (Ret.) Mail to The Hangar Digest, AMCMF Social Media Manager 1301 Heritage Road, Dover Zachary Cacicia AFB DE 19902-5301; fax 302- 677-5940; or email piff- brown1898@ gmail.com. What is the Air Mobility Command Museum? Contact Editor Master Sgt. Jeff Located in Hangar 1301 on Dover Air Force Base, Kent County, , the AMC Museum is part of the National Museum of the Air Force’s field museum Brown, USAF (Ret.) via email at system. [email protected]. One of the reasons your AMC Museum continues to provide a great educational expe- Photos are by Jeff Brown, rience is that we stick very closely to our reason for being. unless otherwise noted. So exactly what is our “mission”? Broken down by numbers our mission is 70 percent airlift and air-refueling, 20 percent Dover AFB history and 10 percent Air Force general The issue’s cover: history. Our aircraft and artifact collection sticks very closely to that breakdown. But we Women in the Air Force today may work hard to be much more than numbers. We tell the stories of the people who have be assigned any job in any special- served in our nation’s Air Force, and we offer the only opportunity for many visitors to ty. But this wasn’t always the case: see the actual aircraft and meet the people who have served our country. up until the 1970s most enlisted Hangar 1301 was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. women worked desk jobs in admin- Although located on Dover AFB proper, entrance to the Museum may be made from istration, personnel or even clothing , south of the base. Admission to and parking at the Museum is free sales. At Dover AFB women were and military identification is not required. The Air Mobility Command Museum is open assigned to the 436th WAF Squad- from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. It is closed on Mondays, Thanksgiving, ron Section for administrative pur- Christmas and New Year’s Day. For more information, call 302-677-5938 or 302-677- poses. In this edition, the former 5991. WAF commander and three former We like to say we are a window to your Air Force. Let us know how we can continue to WAF airmen describe life at Dover improve our outreach and family-friendly experience. more than 40 years ago. Photo by Hal Sellars. The Hangar Digest is printed and mailed by Delmarva Printing, Salisbury, Md.. Hangar Digest Page 3 Air Force legacy Dover AFB bids goodbye to a part of its history Staff Sgt. Aaron Jenne less noise pollu- 436th ABW Public Affairs tion than the decommissioned Members of the 436th Maintenance TF-39s. Squadron gathered at Dover Air Force “It’s sad to see Base’s Jet Engine Intermediate Level [the TF-39] go, Maintenance shop Feb. 16, 2018, to bid but I’ve recently farewell to the Air Force’s last General gone to a class Electric TF-39 turbofan engine. on the new en- For 45 years, the Dover JEIM shop gine, and I can maintained and rebuilt these engines, see how much stripping them completely to their com- the technology ponents over a grueling 75-day process to has changed,” diagnose and repair issues. They were said Daniel Wei- equipped to work on 13 engines at once. mer, 436th MXS Since the shop opened, base airmen re- aerospace pro- built 5,601 nengines. pulsion engine The shop officially closed two years mechanic. Photos by SSgt. Aaron Jenne ago as the Air Force’s continget of C-5A/ “It’s time for B Galaxy aircraft were modernized into this engine to be 512th Maintenance Group Superintendent Chief Master Sgt. Vincent the C-5M Super Galaxy fleet but the put down. Us old Alois signs the TF-39 engine before its final departure. lights stayed on as its members prepared jet engine mechanics feel like we’re veterinar- bad times,” Weimer said. “We blew up a few the remaining engines to be sold. ians for a dinosaur; we’re kind of useless.” engines, and we had a few problems in the “A gradual conversion of the C-5A/B Weimer has worked at Dover AFB for 50 test cell. It’s all one big memory. There’s legacy aircraft to the C-5M has meant years, and on the TF-39 engine since it arrived good and bad, but you learn from it. That’s many modern changes to include new at Dover. His career started at the “rickety, the experience, and that’s what makes it so engines,” said Kevin Morrow, aerospace outside test cell on the far side of the base.” sad that this is going away.” propulsion engine mechanic supervisor He saw the new JEIM shop being built, Unlike the engines, Dover didn’t say good- for the 436th MXS. “The change to the watched the first TF-39 engine as it was rolled bye to all airmen in the JEIM shop. While GE CF6-80 engines used on the C-5M in, and rebuilt the last one completed by the some retired, others were headed to the C-5 made the GE TF-39 engines built here at shop in March 2016. Isochronal Inspection Dock where they the Dover AFB JEIM shop obsolete.” While the JEIM shop was still rebuilding brought with them their years of experience The new CF6-80 engines produce more TF-39 engines for the Air Force’s C-5A/B working on jet engines. thrust, are more fuel efficient and produce fleet, the modernization process necessitated “I am proud to say that I was able to ‘crank the engine’s reclamation process as early as wrenches’ with many mechanics, past and 2012. present, who have become part of the propul- Through 2015 the engines were turned in to sion flight family, most specifically the ‘10 the Defense Logistics Agency and the De- brothers in arms,’ or last men standing who fense Reutilization and Marketing Office, have facilitated the closure of this shop,” Mor- where they were basically sold for salvage, row said. Morrow said. The money gained from this “I would be remiss in not mentioning their process was recouped to the U.S. treasury. names: Daniel Weimer, Robert Burkhamer, Since 2015, 144 TF-39 engines were turned Matthew Farren, Jeffrey Martindale, Michael in through a joint process involving the Air Tatum, Travis Olsen, Chad Bryant, Master Force and General Electric. The JEIM shop Sgt. Randy Bulloch, Staff Sgt. Lawrence had to process an average of six engines each Leonard and Senior Airman Dylan Bruce. month to prepare them for transportation to a “The closure of the TF-39 shop is bit- Driver Wesley Currin throws a tie-down strap over the departing TF-39 engine. metals reclamation company in Monroe, tersweet, for we knew this day would Currin drove the engine to Monroe, N.C., North Carolina. This exchange allowed the finally come; however, we are all looking where it was bought by a metals reclama- Air Force to recuperate $1.38 million. ahead with proactive feelings for tion company. “There were some good times and some the future.” Page 4 Volume 18, Issue 2 Dover AFB History WAF at Dover AFB: Separate and definitely not equal Despite the smiling faces presented in than their ability commercial advertisements of the time, to serve in war- being a Woman in the Air Force, or WAF, time, Anderson during the late 1960s and early 1970s was- charged. n’t necessarily easy; women were facing Gone were the changing times and an evolution of their days when female roles in society and in the military. soldiers trained This was true throughout the Air Force with rifles and and at Dover Air Force Base as well. camped out on Despite having officially been integrated nightly bivouacs, into the Air Force since 1948, during the he said. 1950s even official circles in Washington “But today, the tended to downplay the need for female tough training has airmen -- some said the U.S. military should been abandoned be all male -- and enlistment in the WAF for frilly courses AMCM Photo was declining. on makeup and In fact, some claimed women’s roles in hair dos,” he Lt. Virginia Logan leads members of the 436th WAF Squadron Sec- industry and the military had declined since claimed. tion during a June 1973 wing change of command ceremony. the end of World War II, when women had In her book, left the factories where they manufactured “Women in the Military: An Unfinished As was the case at other bases, these sin- war materiel and returned to home and Revolution,” Maj. Gen. Jeanne Holm noted gle women would work in different organi- hearth. the Air Force of the mid-1960s didn’t have zations on Dover but be assigned adminis- Columnist Jack Anderson, writing in the a coherent plan on how to deal with the tratively to an all-female unit. Vetter was Jan. 2, 1966, edition of Parade magazine, possibility of women being thrust into an ordered to locate housing for the women criticized the de-evolution of service wom- armed conflict, particularly during the on- and appoint a female commander and first en over the prior 20 years. going . sergeant to take charge. “During World War II,” Anderson wrote, “In the Air Force, wartime planning guid- The Pentagon’s message told Vetter, “American servicewomen were regarded as ance provided for WAF to be assigned any- “manpower authorization will be found ‘soldiers in skirts,’ and were treated as where in the world,” she wrote. “But when within your command resources,” according such.” war came in Southeast Asia, no specific to research by historian But even when the military did try to policy guidance was forthcoming from Douglass Miller. recruit women, by the mid-1960s the daugh- Washington.” Vetter selected newly assigned 2nd Lt. ters of those military women and the Rosie While Air Force women did serve in Virginia Logan to serve as commander of the Riveters who kept American wartime SEA, 90 percent of them were nurses who the 436th WAF Squadron Section, which assembly lines moving were being sought flew into Vietnam to evacuate wounded would be activated Sept. 1 of that year. Lo- more for their good looks and femininity men. gan, who had come to Dover on a joint as- Holm, who served two tours as director signment with her C-5 pilot husband, had of the WAF, noted women wanted to serve, just weeks to prepare. despite the dangers. “The first thing we had to do was oversee A female NCO, denied an assignment to the renovation of two barracks buildings, to Vietnam, told her, “If American women get them ready for the women,” the now were half as fragile as the brass seem to retired lieutenant said from her think they are, we never would have con- Ohio home. quered the West.” Logan was given two World War II-era It took the phasing down of the Vietnam wooden barracks and started supervising conflict as well as rising female activism in their renovation. She got a lot of support the civilian world to start changing minds in from Brig. Gen. Kelton M. Farris, who suc- Washington. Even so old prejudices re- ceeded Vetter in August 1970. mained and this chauvinism tended to limit “He was a terrific leader,” she said. “He the role women could expect to play while would come around and see what was going in uniform. on.” Although she wanted her female airmen Taking charge treated on the same level as men, Logan In May 1970, USAF headquarters told realized there were some things that could 436th Military Airlift Wing commander not be ignored. Brig. Gen. Fred W. Vetter Jr. to expect an Giving the women a sense of privacy was influx of women at the base. While Dover’s one of Logan’s priorities and doing so was directors of base administration and base one of the first roadblocks she had to over- personnel were senior WAF officers, these come. The issue: shower curtains. new arrivals would be different: young, new “I told them they had to figure out how to Magazine ads from the 1970s told wom- to the Air Force and -- most problematic -- put curtains in the showers, but they thought en they could expect equal treatment and equal pay in the Air Force. unmarried. that was unnecessary,” Logan said. “I told Hangar Digest Page 5

the general, ‘You’ll have a Congressional It wasn’t an easy transition into military put me out on the gate and then on the flight inquiry when the first 18-year-old writes life. line guarding airplanes.” home to her mother saying she has to take “After I was introduced to everybody, Pennypacker had only her field jacket and gang showers in the Air Force. You don’t one of the staff sergeants said, ‘We’ve nev- WAF “fatigues” to wear when she was sent want to be in that position.’” er had a woman up here and don’t want you outside. Logan got her shower curtains, and later here. We don’t think you’ll last long.’” “I threw a fit,” she recalled. “I told him I saw to the installation of a bathtub. Initially, Kirchoff was required to wear wasn’t a security policeman, I was admin. I There were other changes, too. her Class A uniform, which created unwant- told the commander if he wanted my “I told them to get rid of all the mattress- ed attention when she had to climb stairs stripes, he could take them.” es in the barracks,” she recalled. “They’d while wearing a skirt. One of the master “He really could have hammered me but been in there for years and we needed new sergeants noticed, and after that she was after that he left me alone,” Pennypacker mattresses. So they did.” allowed to wear the WAF fatigue uniform, added. which included a blouse, slacks and low Pennypacker also would fight back We don’t want you here quarter shoes. against harassment she saw directed at her Rita Berg Kirchoff was one of the initial Eventually, things improved as people fellow WAF. cadre of WAF began to appreciate her work ethic. “I was raised between two boys and I was airmen assigned “After a few weeks, they knew I worked tough. I just didn’t put up with it,” she said. to Dover, arriv- hard,” she said. “I was quiet and followed Like the other women, Pennypacker was ing in October orders. After a while, they became more assigned both to her regular unit and to the 1970. like big brothers.” WAF squadron section. Just out of It could be a Jekyll and Hyde situation, high school, she ‘I was tough’ she said. was looking for a Georgia-born Lena Prine Pennypacker “We had two commanders and two first way off her fami- arrived at Dover sergeants,” she recalled. “We had to go to two ly’s small Wis- in September commanders calls. We’d be assigned duties in consin farm. 1971. Like our units and in the WAF squadron. “I had gone to Kirchoff, she “We also had to pull Charge of Quarters and I hated that,” she said. “I thought if mail a letter for Rita Berg Kirchoff came in from my grandmother basic training you’re old enough to go into the military, and the recruiters were there at the post having no formal you don’t need a babysitter.” office,” she said. The Air Force recruiter training in her She continued to pull the duty even after was giving the entrance exams that after- new career field. marrying in April 1973 and moving off-base. noon and Kirchoff stuck around despite a “I already “The men didn’t have a CQ, but the lack of sleep from working the night shift at could type 98 women sure did. I thought it was stupid.” a local nursing home. words a minute, Lena Prine Pennypacker “I guess I passed,” she recalled. “I scored so they must have A ‘social experiment’ better in the maintenance area, but they thought I didn’t need to go to tech Chris Doughty Muszynski ran smack into weren’t hiring women in that field, at least school,” she said. a man with an attitude as soon as she set not in 1970.” Assigned first to the Consolidated Base foot on Dover AFB in January 1972. Kirchoff was assigned as an administra- Personnel Office, Pennypacker later “I reported to a chief master sergeant, and tive specialist and sent on a direct duty as- transferred to the Security Police squad- he said, ‘Welcome to Dover.’” signment to Dover after basic training. ron as an administrative specialist and “Then he said, ‘This is just a social ex- “I knew where Delaware was, but I didn’t eventually was put in charge of special periment and I will make sure you don’t know a thing about Dover,” she said. security files. last.’” Assigned to the 436th Field Mainte- But it seemed the unit commander had Muszynski told the chief, respectfully, nance Squadron, Kirchoff prepared per- other plans for her. that she disagreed. But the chief didn’t care. formance reports, administrative punish- “He decided I was going to be his first “He spit on the ground and said, ‘I don’t ments and discharges, temporary duty WAF security policeman,” she said. “He want any broads in my Air Force.’” orders and meal cards. (See WAF page 16)

The AMC Museum Foundation will dedicate Saturday, Sept. 15 aircraft are painstakingly brought back, often from pieces, to as AMC Museum Sponsor Recognition Day for all the sponsors pristine condition by our dedicated restoration volunteers. We’re who support our first Annual Summer Fundraiser. This “Summer currently working on our C-119B Flying Boxcar and the KB-50J Fundraiser” replaces our 12-year run of AMC Museum Foundation Superfortress. Annual Golf Tournaments. Special displays recognizing our Summer Fundraiser Sponsors Sept. 15 also is the AMC Museum Monthly Open Cockpit day. will be on display in and around the Museum, and we’ll have food You’ll not only experience the historic aircraft on display, but trucks for your dining pleasure. you’ll be able to go on board, where knowledgeable tour guides Donating funds to the AMC Museum Foundation helps us fulfill will provide technical and historical information of the aircraft. the mission of the AMC Museum as an aviation and aerospace, Cockpit tours will be available from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. The flight education, scientific, cultural, historical and inspirational facility simulators will also be available for those who would like to test and also support the restoration and preservation of aircraft and their flying skills! artifacts. As an added bonus, just for this Sponsor Recognition Day, the So mark your calendar, invite your family and friends, and let us Museum’s Restoration Hangar door will be opened. This will show you a great time at the Air Mobility Command Museum allow the unique opportunity to get some insight on how our Sponsor Recognition Day! Page 6 Volume 18, Issue 2

By FOUNDATION NOTES Don Sloan Hangar Digest Page 7

The C-119B bench has arrived!

Fly safe! Don Sloan Page 8 Volume 18, Issue 2 Featured aircraft The C-45 Expeditor: a plane with many faces The Air Mobility Command Museum’s C -45 Expeditor may be a small aircraft, but it’s got a big history. The plane started its career in 1943 and since that time changed hands at least a dozen times. It’s been built, rebuilt, regis- tered, re-registered, involved in at least six accidents, cannibalized and finally, re- stored. It came to the AMCM in April 1989 and is considered on loan from the U.S. Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia. And like the Museum’s C-45, the aircraft type has had a long and sometimes confus- ing history. Both the civilian world and the military found many uses for the plane, and as a result, it had many variations and dif- ferent incarnations. The Expeditor was World War II’s mili- tary version of the very popular aircraft, which had served the civilian world as a light commercial transport. The Model 18 was so successful Beechcraft kept the design in its inventory AMCM Foundation member Ralph Pettersen photographed the Museum’s C-45 in Novem- for more than three decades. In all, more ber 2007 while the aircraft was on display on the hangar floor. The plane since has been than 9,000 Model 18s in 32 different ver- moved to the exterior ramp. sions were built over that time, including the C-45. airlines that would bring business to larger inevitable conflict with Germany and Japan According to research by Russell Munson airfields. in the late 1930s, Beechcraft, like many published in the February 1982 edition of Unlike its larger counterparts, the new other businesses, took advantage of an up- Flying Magazine, although the Model 18 aircraft needed to seat only a half-dozen swing in interest by the United States mili- made its first flight in January 1937, its people and have a crew of two, but the tary, which was looking for an aircraft just origins date to three years earlier and the BAC’s requirements, including installation like the Model 18. Bureau of Air Commerce, one of the fore- of an automatic pilot and controlled-pitch The first military variation of the aircraft runners of today’s Federal Aviation Admin- propellers, outlined what essentially was a was dubbed the F-2 and used for photo re- istration. The BAC wanted aircraft manu- smaller version of some of the era’s well- connaissance missions. The US Army Air facturers to produce a small twin-engine equipped larger passenger aircraft. Corps ordered 69 of these aircraft, which aircraft its airline inspectors could use to Although the Beechcraft company had could carry two to four aerial cameras. travel across the country. been in business only three years and had The second version of the Model 18 be- But officials at the BAC also felt such an produced just one successful aircraft, it came the C-45, which was envisioned pri- aircraft could be used for passengers at a presented to the BAC a plane that was light- marily as a staff transport aircraft. time when public air transportation was in er and smaller than other entries in the com- Beginning with the initial order of 11 C- its infancy, with the government wanting to petition. 45 aircraft in 1939, the Air Corps eventual- encourage development of small feeder According to Munson, although the Mod- ly received more than 1,300 of the planes, el 18 failed to win most of which were designated the C-45F. the government’s The Model 18 also was manufactured as backing, economic the AT-7, nicknamed the Navigator; it was factors -- this was introduced in 1943 and used for navigator the period of the training. The plane included an astrodome Great Depression -- and had room for three trainees. There were slowed develop- 577 AT-7s built. ment of the feeder The AT-11, dubbed the Kansan, was market. Still, the brought into the inventory in 1941 and used aircraft proved pop- as a trainer for bombardiers and gunners. ular and became About 1,582 Kansans were constructed, even more so with including 36 modified as AT-11As, used for continual improve- navigation training. ments including The US Navy and US Marine Corps also installation of more purchased Model 18s, using them under Photo courtesy Robert Parmerter powerful engines. different labels such as JRB-1, JRB-2, JRB- The Museum’s C-45, then flying for the CIA’s Air America, carried With what ap- 3, JRB-4, SNB-1, SNB-2 and SNB-3. These registration N-7950C when photographed in Laos in 1962. peared to be an aircraft essentially performed the same Hangar Digest Page 9

functions as their U.S. Army Air Corps provide additional counterparts. fuel: 55-gallon drums positioned A short history on wooden cra- The Museum’s C-45G began life as an dles. Extra fuel AT-11 Kansan bombardier trainer, tail was dumped number 42-37174, manufactured in Wichita through a hole in and delivered in March 1943. It immediate- the floor. ly was assigned to the Childress Army Air- Over a little field in the panhandle, one of four more than a dec- bombardier schools in the state. There train- ade, it served in ees learned the use of the top-secret Norden numerous roles in bombsight during an 18-week training regi- Laos, South Vi- men. etnam, and Thai- By 1948, the aircraft had been placed in land. During those storage following the war and dropped from years the plane the Air Force rolls by 1952. But it found also suffered a num- Robert Parmerter, author of “Beech 18: A Civil and Military History,” new life as one of 900 aircraft rebuilt in the ber of accidents, photographed the C-45 in June 1978 while it was on static display at MCB Quantico, Virginia. It carries the markings of the 1st Marine Air 1950s under a US Air Force contract with including being hit Division at Quantico. Beech. by a cable hanging According to Australian aviation historian from a passing jet. pilot, and stretches back to his grandfather, Geoff Goodall, these obsolete C-45, AT-7 and By June 1971 the plane no longer was who flew with the 27th Aero Squadron in AT-11 airframes were flown or brought by airworthy and was, being used for spare France during the First World War. rail to the former Herington Army Air Field parts to keep other aircraft flying. He describes the Model 18 as “a great air- north of Beech’s Wichita, Kansas, plant. The By 1975, Parmerter learned the plane was plane.” planes were torn down, with the wings and in Taiwan awaiting a date with the scrap “It can fly far and carries plenty of gas,” tail sections being reconditioned at Herington yard when the assistant deputy director of Gates said in a telephone interview. then sent to the Beech plant where they were the U.S. Marine Corps Museum in Quan- “The thing about it is that it’s a twin- mated with new fuselages, center sections and tico, Virginia, asked Air America to donate engine, tail-wheel airplane,” Gates said. “It’s landing gear. the aircraft. not difficult to fly, but it can be challenging The improvements included new avionics “It would cost Air America more to re- until you get used to it.” and cockpit systems, and separate braking turn it to the U.S. than it is worth,” wrote The plane has great flying characteristics in systems and flight instruments for the pilot the letter’s author, whose name has been Colorado’s skies, he added. and copilot. These changes resulted in air- redacted from a formerly classified docu- “It can climb pretty high, and what’s im- craft that flew faster, longer and with im- ment. The Marine Corps had agreed to pick portant for us here,” Gates said. proved fuel consumption. up and return the plane to the United States Maintenance also is relatively uncomplicat- These new and improved models were at its own expense, the letter added. ed as well. given new contract numbers as well as new It took several years, but by June 3, 1978, “For the most part, it’s easy to work on,” Air Force designations. Beech remanufac- the C-45 was placed on static display out- Gates said. “But you have to remember its 75 tured 468 aircraft into C-45G models with side the 1st Marine Air Division headquar- years old and you have 75-year-old technolo- an autopilot and new Pratt & Whitney R- ters at Quantico Marine Corps Base, Vir- gy built into it.” 985 engines. There were an additional 432 ginia. Although impressive, the display was The Mile-High Wing’s SNB-5 undergoes a aircraft converted to the C-45H standard, not historically accurate, Parmerter notes as rigid maintenance routine when it’s not in the virtually identical to the G model, except it carried early World War II markings and air during the winter. Working in the plane is without the autopilot feature. was painted overall a pale blue. a real labor of love, he added. After its upgrade, the Museum’s C-45 only The aircraft remained in Virginia until “Every airplane has its little idiosyncra- remained on the rolls for four years, alternat- April 1989, when it was placed on loan to sies,” Gates said. “But most of the airplanes ing between bases in Ohio, the District of the AMC Museum and subsequently re- built for World War II were built very simply Columbia, Nevada, and Michigan. In August stored to its current condition. because it would be an 18-year-old who was 1957, it went into storage at Davis-Monthan going to fix it.” AFB, Arizona, where it remained for eight ‘A great airplane’ There usually are two to three people work- months before being sold to legendary aviator Although the AMCM’s C-45 no longer is ing to keep the Mile-High Wings aircraft in and test pilot Vance Breese. flight worthy, many examples of the Beech flying trim, he said. Breese kept the aircraft only for two Model 18 remain in service today. “It’s not difficult to work on, but sometimes years before selling it to Air America, a One such aircraft is a former Navy trainer it’s challenging because you don’t have too civilian airline operating in Southeast Asia, that’s part of the Commemorative Air Force’s many people who have worked on these old which carried out many clandestine mis- Mile-High Wing in Broomfield, Colorado. aircraft. sions for the Central Intelligence Agency. Founded in 1957, the all-volunteer group “But a lot of our guys have been around Historian Robert Parmerter, author of maintains numerous World War II aircraft at , especially this type of airplane.” “Beech 18: A Civil and Military History,” locations throughout the country, flying the Gates, whose 15-years of experience in considered the authoritative work on the planes to keep their achievements in the pub- World War II vintage aircraft include the B- Beech and its many variants, shows the lic memory. 17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator, admits plane, now carrying a civilian registration, Retired USAF and Col. a fondness for Beech’s Model 18 and its many was the first of its type used by Air Ameri- Jay Gates flies a restored SNB-5, one of the variants. ca. In 1960, the cabin seats were pulled and US Navy’s designations for the Model 18, out “I just love to fly it and everyone I know an auxiliary fuel tank installed. Sometime of Mile-High Wing. His aviation heritage who flies it loves to fly it,” he said. in 1974, a unique system was installed to includes his father, a World War II pursuit Page 10 Volume 18, Issue 2 Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor Hangar Digest Page 11 Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor

AMCM photo Page 12 Volume 18, Issue 2 Bringing back the past Restoration work continues on historic aircraft Time. to a remote part of Edwards AFB, Califor- It’s the enemy of all airplane restoration nia, where it sat for years, slated to be efforts. Time means physical decay, the sold as scrap. destruction of metals, fabrics, glass, and It wasn’t until the wing historian at plastics that make up an aircraft. It also can Little Rock AFB, Arkansas, now home to mean the loss of knowledge and information the 314th’s successor, the 314th Opera- about how an airplane was manufactured tions Group, did some research that the and maintained. plane’s true history was uncovered. AMC Museum Restoration Chief Les Working with Museum personnel and Polley is fighting time every working day, Worldwide Aircraft Recovery of Belle- not with just one aircraft, but while en- vue, Nebraska, a Dover AFB C-5M air- deavoring to restore two ships that played crew brought parts of the C-119B plane to a vital role in the history of the United the AMCM in late 2016. The remainder States Air Force. still is at Edwards. The first is a C-119, tail number 48- “Logistically, we could not bring the 0352, dubbed the AMCANCO Special. rest of the aircraft here [via C-5M],” The plane, the second-oldest Flying Box- AMC Museum Director John Taylor said, car in existence, is the only surviving “so the rest will be trucked here in the member of a group of aircraft from the September-October 2018 time frame.” 314th Troop Carrier Group that air- What’s left includes the fuselage, wing dropped eight 1.5-ton mobile bridge sec- box, and two engines, according to Tay- tions during the ’s Battle of lor. Gauges and other instrumentation in Chosin Reservoir. the plane’s cockpit also need to be re- Four sections were successfully pieced placed. together, creating a structure that allowed “It’s been completely gutted,” he said. a group of about 30,000 U.S. Marines and Taylor also is coordinating with Dover United Nations troops to escape advanc- AFB contracting personnel to prepare The KB-50J’s starboard outer wing ing Communist Chinese forces. paperwork for the reassembly of the his- dwarfs the six volunteers conducting With the eventual phasing out of the C- toric Flying Boxcar. Once assembled by a restoration work in January 2018. 119 by 1974, many were sold to foreign commercial contractor, the restoration governments, private contractors or simp- process will be done in-house by the Mu- another ongoing project by Worldwide, ly scrapped. After the Am Can Co Special seum volunteer restoration team. Taylor the reassembly of a KB-50J tanker air- ended its career in 1966, it was relegated hopes to combine the C-119 work with craft. The plane had been on static display at MacDill AFB, Florida, for more than 20 years. Unlike the Flying Boxcar, Dover has received all of the KB-50J, and Polley’s restoration team already is hard at work doing repairs before the plane is reassem- bled. But they’ve found the job is much more involved than originally thought. “We’ve completed work on the outer wings and we’re starting on the inner wings,” Polley said. “But we’ve got a lot of work because of the amount of damage we’ve found.” Constant exposure to Florida’s salty air has wreaked havoc on the wing’s alumi- num surface and inner structures, the res- toration chief explained. Of particular concern are the main spars, he added. The metal in the wings actually is 7075 aluminum, an alloy that includes zinc as a primary element. As such “it really limits our repair capabilities,” he said. “It’s really strong, but it’s brittle when it’s heated,” Polley said, a characteristic that restricts what areas can be welded during the repair process. Some areas will be sanded down and AMCM restoration chief Les Polley looks for corrosion in the wing spar of the Muse- replaced with a putty-like commercial um’s newly-acquired KB-50J. aluminum filler. Parts of the wings origi- Hangar Digest Page 13

nally covered in fabric have been replaced with sheet aluminum as well. The AMCM’s restored KB-50J never will fly again, but that wasn’t the plan to begin with, Polley said. “It won’t be airworthy, but that will work for us,” he said. AMCM visitors will see a plane looking exactly as one in the refueling fleet appeared a half-century ago. The restoration team also is busy at work searching for replacement parts for the interior of the airplane. Even though the public usually won’t be able to climb around inside the restored KB-50, Polley intends to make everything as authentic looking as possible. The volunteer’s work also is bolstered by archivists at the Company, who dug through their files and provided copies of original construction blueprints. “Those were very helpful, in fact, inval- uable,” Polley said. “They show us the location of things that we’d only be Polley examines severely corroded wing panels in the Museum’s restoration hangar. It able to find by cutting holes in the took restoration volunteer Don Steenhagen two weeks to craft a replacement, including wings.” installing the piece with individually-placed rivets.

A historic encounter between two World War II warbirds took place in mid-March as the B-17F was moved from a restoration hangar at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to its new berth at the National Museum of the . The Belle replaces the NMUSAF’s cur- rent B-17G, the (sometimes referred to simply as Shoo Shoo Baby), which had been on display at the Ohio museum since October 1988. The plane had been flown there under its own power from Dover AFB, Delaware. The museum hopes to add another Flying Fortress, a B-17D, nicknamed , in the near future. The changeover was a bittersweet expe- rience for AMCM Foundation board of directors member Mike Leister. The 10- year restoration of Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby from virtual wreck to airworthy aircraft NMUSAF photo led to the establishment of what now is The world-famous B-17 Memphis Belle, left, was photographed nose-to-nose March 18 the AMC Museum. with her counterpart, the Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, as the planes were switched at the Na- “I have mixed feelings about Shoo tional Museum of the United States Air Force. The Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby was restored to Shoo Baby leaving NMUSAF,” Leister flying status during a 10-year program at Dover Air Force Base. said. “On one hand it would have been awesome to have the three most notable Baby will remain at Wright Patterson AFB for to the [National Air and Space Museum at surviving B-17s all in one location. the time being. Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.] at a “On the other hand, more people visit “Once the Memphis Belle was moved time of their choosing.” the Dulles facility of the National Air & inside the World War II Gallery March Leister remains hopeful Shoo Shoo Space Museum than NMUSAF. 14, Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby was towed to Shoo Baby will find a good home where “The other downside is there are no the restoration hangar, and placed in stor- the public again can learn about this ven- current plans, that I am aware of, to actu- age until it is transferred to the Smithson- erable and others like it. ally move Shoo Shoo Baby out of storage ian’s National Air & Space Museum,” “In the long run it will all work out,” he and put it on display at Dulles,” he said. Bardua said. said. Rob Bardua, of the NMUSAF’s public “Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby will not fly affairs office, confirmed Shoo Shoo Shoo again,” he added. “It will be transported Page 14 Volume 18, Issue 2 Women’s History Month ‘Rosie’ honors Dover’s female aircraft maintainers Air Force women long ago outgrew the Naming an air- appellation of being the “weaker sex,” plane requires con- showing they can march alongside their sent from Air Force brothers-in-arms in whatever challenge headquarters, but they’re given. , as he This change perhaps is no more evident learned from an than in the aircraft maintenance career field AMC Museum asso- in today’s Air Force. ciate, can be ap- Although women were instrumental in proved at a lower building aircraft while men were serving in level. World War II, it wasn’t until more than a Ford took that path generation later they were given the chance after seeing Hilde- to really show what they could do as mem- brandt’s work and bers of the military. thinking it was the The accomplishments of female aircraft perfect way to honor maintenance technicians were honored female aircraft main- March 22 with the unveiling of a Dover C- tainers. 17 Globemaster III, sporting Rosie the Riv- And Hildebrandt eter-themed nose art. Similar to the famous was equally happy to World War II poster, the new Rosie carries help. a wrench while rolling up her sleeves and Hildebrandt al- exhorting her sisters to “Keep ‘em Flying.” ready had gathered Applause greets the unveiling of the C-17’s new nose art: from left are Maj. Gen Carol A. Timmons, adjutant general of the Dela- The piece, created by world-renowned lifelong honors for ware Air National Guard, Col. Sherry Teague, commander of the artist Greg Hildebrandt, pays tribute to past, his work when in 512th Maintenance group, Master Sgt. Christine King, dedicated present, and future dedicated female main- 2009 he decided to crew chief of the C-17, the Honorable Robin Christiansen, mayor tainers, whose efforts and professionalism create artwork simi- of Dover, Del., and Col. Ethan Griffin, commander of Dover’s ensure mission readiness across the Air lar to that decorating 436th Airlift Wing. Force. the World War II “This is about all lady maintainers,” said aircraft of his youth. Like the famous Mem- History Month. 512th Maintenance Squadron superinten- phis Belle, those planes carried renderings The Globemaster chosen for the honor dent. Chief Master Sgt. Bryan “Skip” Ford of pretty girls, the very symbols of what the also is special in that its dedicated crew said. “I want them to all know how much young men were fighting for, Jean Scrocco, chief for the past five years has been Master we appreciate what they do on a daily basis. Hildebrandt’s wife and agent, said. Sgt. Christine King of the 712th Aircraft The successful ones are phenomenal me- “When he was a kid, he used to see the Maintenance Squadron. King is responsible chanics and great people.” pinup calendars from the 1940s,” Scrocco for all maintenance on the plane and is Ford, who recently joined the AMC said. “What he loved about them was the charged with keeping it combat-ready. She Museum Foundation board of directors, beauty of the women, so he began that se- is backed by assistant crew chief Tech. Sgt. had tried unsuccessfully for years to get a ries to show how beautiful the women are.” Brinnae Wigley. Dover bird named in the spirit of Rosie The image of Rosie was one of Hilde- Hildebrandt and Scrocco came to Dover the Riveter. brandt’s 105 creations in his American several days after the dedication ceremony Beauties Retro and got a first-hand look at the Rosie nose Pinup series; he art, now a permanent fixture on the Globe- waived his usual master. fee to allow the “Greg told me, ‘This will be one of the Dover project to greatest honors of my career and my life- go forward. time,’” Scrocco said. “He was in tears when “Women just he said that.” don’t get the “For him to be standing at Dover Air recognition they Force Base and to see his girl on one of the deserve,” Scrocco planes was one of the biggest thrills of his said. “So this one life,” she added. is special.” Hildebrandt’s involvement with Dover Early in March, may not be over just yet, Scrocco said, add- Ford received ing that a tour of the Air Mobility Com- permission from mand Museum left her husband equally the Air Mobility enthralled. Command to put “We loved it,” she said of the AMCM. Rosie on a C-17, “Greg told me when we came home that meeting his goal if he has the time he may do a painting A rendering of artist Greg Hildebrandt’s “Keep ‘em Flying” nose art of unveiling the for the Museum. Even though he’s is positioned just inside the C-17’s forward hatch. Tech. Sgt. Brin- artwork before the booked two years in advance, he may nae Wigley and Master Sgt. Christine King are the aircraft’s assis- end of Women’s do it.” tant dedicated crew chief and dedicated crew chief. Hangar Digest Page 15 AMC Museum honors Charlie loves his hot dogs — and Dover’s airmen Charlie Boehm Jr. has two ambitions in Boehm kicked off life: to honor the United States military his business about and to serve up good grub to America’s 10 years ago in servicemen and service women. Millsboro, Delaware, He’s accomplishing both goals, not about 40 miles south only with his little hot dog restaurant of Dover AFB. Alt- tucked away in the Dover Air Force hough things were Base Exchange but by a weekly dona- going well, Boehn tion of free soup to volunteers at the just felt something AMC Museum. was missing. The AMCM Foundation board of direc- He contacted offi- tors in March recognized Boehm’s dedi- cials at the base and cation and generosity with a presentation with the Army and on behalf of the entire museum team. The Air Force Exchange tribute, an overhead shot of the Museum Service and eventual- complex, occupies a special place at ly was given permis- Charlie’s Hot Dogs, surrounded by other sion to sell his wares memorabilia and mounted newspaper from a small cart in clippings about the base and its people. the Exchange parking A former member of the New Jersey lot. Army National Guard and a retired tele- “I was very suc- Son and father show off the AMCM’s tribute to their joint busi- phone company computer technician, cessful in Millsboro, ness, presented March 15 by Foundation board member Rod- Boehm feels the need to do whatever he but it was a no- ney Moore. can for those in uniform. brainer to come to “It’s just something in my blood,” he Dover,” he said. “I like taking care of our “Business is booming,” Charlie III said. said. “I’ve always had a soft spot for the airmen and soldiers. They go through a “People are happy with our food and we’re military.” lot for us.” happy serving the military and our veterans. He later was offered a space in the Ex- “Our goal is that people leave with a change complex itself and opened Char- smile on their face.” lie’s Hot Dogs in June 2016. People attending the AMCM’s Open Since then he’s seen a steady stream of Cockpit Day events, where volunteers open customers looking for an alternative to up a number of the Museum’s aircraft for the base dining hall and a commercial sightseers to visit, also have an opportunity burger restaurant. to sample Charlie’s wares. Boehm donates In addition to the all-beef Sabrett-brand 15 percent of his profits during each event New York franks on the menu, Charlie’s back to the Museum. offers various kinds of sausages, kielbasa, Father and son run the business six days pork roll, potato salad, cole slaw, and a week, putting in about 12 hours per day, cheeseburgers. not including buying supplies and making He also serves up scrapple, a Delmarva the 80-mile round trip between the base and Charlie Boehm III serves up the ma- favorite. home. kings of a meatball sandwich in the Boehm does much of the cooking and But it’s worth it. kitchen of Charlie’s Hot Dogs on Dover is assisted by son Charlie III and his wife, “We’re here for the airmen,” Boehm AFB. Ann. said. “We can’t do enough for them.” New names added to AMCM’s Commemorative Garden An additional 16 memorial bricks have been added to the walkway at the Air Mobility Command Museum’s Commemorative Garden in con- junction with Memorial Day 2018. The bricks, which are inscribed with names, organizations and other tributes, are added to the garden each Memorial Day and Veterans Day.

Because of formatting requirements, the information presented in this listing may not exactly match the inscription on the bricks. Page 16 Volume 18, Issue 2

been increasingly assigned jobs once filled only by men. WAF “If anyone had told me a few years ago Continued from page 5) the Air Force would have women with fam- But Muszynski wasn’t having it. ilies, missile maintenance officers, women “I told that chief I’d see women flying generals, most of would have scoffed a the one day,” she said. idea,” she said. “It could never happen . . . And she did. Muszynski stayed in the Air but it has happened and there is more to Force, retiring in January 1998 as a senior come.” master sergeant. By November 1972, 237 of the 242 en- Especially at the beginning of her career, listed airmen career fields were open to she knew she’d have to work harder than women, while all but five were closed to the men to overcome prejudice against women officers. More than 16,500 women women. Many felt the term “WAF” was were serving in the Air Force at the time. detrimental to both women and the Air In June 1973, Holm’s successor WAF Force, she said. director Col. Billie Bobbitt, said that after “As long as you were called a WAF, you that year, Air Force women no longer would weren’t integrated. We thought that did a lot observe June as the anniversary of the 1948 Despite proclaiming itself as the “436th of damage,” Muszynski said. Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, WAF Squadron,” the unit properly was “It was like they kind of considered you which created the WAF. organized as a squadron section. This emblem, designed by A1C Pricilla W. to be something temporary the more they In response, Logan, who by then had Wallace, was never officially approved. called attention to it,” she said. been promoted to captain, said, “In the past Women didn’t deserve that kind of atti- 25 years we have seen great changes in poli- Dealing with being a ‘pretty miss’ tude, she added. cy and attitude toward women in the Air Although many articles in the base “We were young, ready to please, ready Force. Each change, particularly in the past newspaper of the 1970s heralded ad- to serve and we walked into an environment few years, has brought us closer to real vances made by women, those pieces that didn’t want us. equality in treatment, opportunity and re- often were penned by men who had not “I was really happy when they did away sponsibility.” caught up with the times. with that term.” Also in June 1973, the Department of De- While men in stories often were re- Despite some of the early animus toward fense bowed to a Supreme Court ruling and ferred to by their rank and last names, women, Muszynski has seen things change, authorized Air Force women, married to civil- the authors usually referred to the wom- for the most part. ians, to draw quarters allowance. en only by their first names. “I think we still have a long way to go as With advances in policy and law, Air Force Airmen and officers alike often were far as leadership positions,” Muszynski leaders eventually saw the handwriting on the described as “comely, “a pretty miss,” or said. “You’ve seen career fields open up, wall and in February 1975 announced all having “a lovable smile.” A 1971 Christ- even in combat.” WAF units would be shut down by June. mas bash at the WAF squadron section In her career, Muszynski had done things, No longer would single women be assigned invited everyone to come over and including being sent into a combat zone to squadron sections that would oversee their “enjoy yourselves at this party, compli- during Desert Storm, that for a woman “housing, counseling, off-duty supervision, ments of the girls.” would have been unheard of when she en- morale and welfare,” according to an article in Even an article in the local civilian listed. the Dover AFB “Airlifter” newspaper. paper about the WAF referred to their And her prediction to that crusty old chief “The new system will give the duty com- commander as “Lt. Mrs. Virginia Lo- back in 1972 has come true: women today mander full responsibility for women assigned gan.” are serving in every career field, and one to the unit,” the article said. “That’s how it was. It was part of the has commanded a mission. As Dover’s WAF squadron section was times,” Logan recalled. “Now that I’m older, I understand his phased out, a resident consultant for women “I like to think that over the years the generation more,” she said. “Then, they — a female line officer — and a female dor- men learned how to better deal with su- were taught to take care of women, and I mitory manager was selected, and 1st Lt. Al- pervising women,” she added. That in- think it was a huge shift for them. They had fred MacArthur, commander of the base head- cluded not showing favoritism toward to accept women as being equals.” quarters squadron section, became custodial women simply because of their sex. commander of the WAF. “That type of thing wasn’t good for Changing times For Dover’s WAF, it was the end of the the men’s morale, to see women getting Responding to continuing public pressure beginning. special treatment,” she said. in the 1970s, the Air Force slowly began liberalizing rules for its women. In 1971, women could apply for a waiver Errata ... to remain in the service instead of being Strive as we do for accuracy in these pages, slipups do happen, and so we note the following subject to an automatic discharge for preg- corrections from the January-March 2018 edition of the Hangar Digest: nancy. In October of that year, they began - On Page 4, parts of the KB-50J, dismantled by Worldwide Aircraft at MacDill AFB, training as security police officers. were brought to Dover AFB by truck. Women made another stride forward in - On Page 6, Steve J. Krok, of Union, N.J. was omitted from the listing of those who August 1972, when Col. Norma E. Brown donated at least $100 to the AMCM’s 2017 Fundraising campaign. was named commander of the 6970th Air - On Page 8, the photograph erroneously identified Charlie Tanner as Mike Leister. Base Group at Fort Meade, . We tend to blame it on the gremlins; although we don’t hear much nowadays about Addressing an Air Force Association these mischievous imps from World War II, it’s obvious they’re still around. meeting in September 1972, WAF director These corrections have been made in the online version of the Hangar Digest, available Brig. Gen. Jeanne Holm said women had at the Museum’s website, www.amcmuseum.org. Hangar Digest Page 17

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Connor Johnson, of Wilmington, Del., and grandfa- Payton Dulin and grandmother Ruth Adkins, of ther Rich Sherwood, of Milford, Del., examine the Dover, Del., visited the AMCM March 17 with Flat AMCM’s enlisted history hall. Sherwood’s father Stanley. Adkins’ daughter, school teacher Allie served in World War II, and wore a uniform like that Wright, of Plano, Texas, sent Adkins the famous on display, he said. As for Connor, he was impressed cartoon character and asked her to document his with his Museum tour: “I think it’s fun,” he said. trip to the Museum.

Doug Orr gets a close-up look at Kevin Wysopal’s B- Julie Hoffman, of Smyrna, Del., snaps a shot of 17 model as he and Casey Wood visit the Museum’s daughter Cecilia. Mom said Cecilia’s big brother, Flying Fortress, Sleepy Time Gal. The couple hail Ethan, “… is very much into the Air Force and loves from Delaware County, Pennsylvania. spending time here.”

Emma Brady and her dad, Rusty, of Wood- side, Del., gaze at entries on the Medal of Honor wall in the Museum’s Hall of Heroes. Rusty was visiting the AMCM with his brother, Ste- ve Jackson, a retired Air Force flight engi- neer. “He’s going to show us what he did on the C-5 and walk us through one,” Members of the Dover Air Force Base Honor Guard Rusty said. line up just prior to the beginning of the of Do- ver’s 30th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The honor guard is a frequent participant in many activities within the city of Dover. Page 18 Volume 18, Issue 2 Pave a Path to History In Commemoration Park With Only One Brick ...... you can accomplish two things — become a permanent part of history in Commemoration Park and join The AMC Museum Foundation in supporting the museum. And what a great idea — there are so many reasons to order your brick today!  Offer tribute to or memorialize a loved one.  Give a holiday or birthday gift.  Commemorate a special date.  Recognize a special group.  Show your personal or business support for the AMC Museum.

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