"JACK WATKINS"




 


Running up the Alert Bird Da Nang 68



 


Taking Ice cream to the Eskimos at Thule on Christmas.  I don't remember who was Santa Claus




 


Thats me in the door and I think the Pilot was George Stokes




 


Jack Mercer Pilot standing with female scientist and Jack Watkins in the background supporting a scientific team North of Thule studying the reason the water doesn't freeze over at the location.

 



 


Weight and Balance.  Jack Watkins Kadena 33rd Okinawa 1977



 


Showing the Eskimos the H-3




 

 

Me and JP Gant cocking the H-53 for alert.  Okinawa 78.  Yes I don't have my glove on.  I was the Stan Eval FE and heard from the troops about that.


 

 

If I remember right, its me and Bill Crawford inside and it was taken after they took our CH-3s for Pony Express.  Tyndall 1965



 


My first flying job.  Donald Umlaw and me at Tyndall 1965.



 


That's me inside the crane looking back.  That was some ride back .  The Pilot of the crane told me if he gets so much as a flicker on any guage he was going to pickle the Jolly.  1968



 


The Hut 1968



 


Tracking the Jolly 1968



 


DaNang 1968




       




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