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The Birth Pangs of Portland Air Base – Part IV: First Air Defense Exercise in 1941

Among the many aircraft which came to Portland to participate in the air defense maneuvers in late October, 1941 were some Lockheed YP-38 fighters, early versions of the P-38 Lightning fighter. The first of 13 of these pre-production test planes came off Lockheed’s production line in September, 1940 and was delivered to the USAAF in the spring of 1941. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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The Birth Pangs of Portland Air Base – Part IV: First Air Defense Exercise in 1941

Sixty-eight new officers have arrived at Portland Air Base in the fall of 1941. Here are a few of them shown during their first inspection. Reviewing officers include Major James W. McCauley, Commander of the 55th Pursuit Group, left, and Lieutenant Jack S. Jenkins. (Photo courtesy of the Oregonian, 142nd Wing History Archive)
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The Birth Pangs of Portland Air Base – Part IV: First Air Defense Exercise in 1941

This picture of the PAB parking ramp is from after May, 1941 when the 55th Pursuit Group and fighter planes first arrived at Portland. It shows a mix of three Republic P-43 Lancer and two Curtiss P-36 Hawk fighter aircraft of the 55th Pursuit Group, the first flying unit based at Portland AAB. Two fighter squadrons (37th and 38th Pursuit Squadrons) flew the P-43 and another (54th Pursuit Squadron) a mix of P-43 and P-36 fighters as P-43 production worked to meet demand. The men on the ramp in various formations are perhaps drilling and marching in preparation for a military parade. As war neared in late 1941, the 55th Pursuit Group’s fighters were painted in what became the standard US Army Air Corps/Army Air Force camouflage of olive drab on the upper surfaces with a neutral gray undersurface. (Photo courtesy of the City of Portland Auditor’s Office Archives)
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The Birth Pangs of Portland Air Base – Part IV: First Air Defense Exercise in 1941

A flight of Republic P-43 Lancer fighters of the 55th Pursuit Group beats up the ramp in a pass in review overhead Portland Air Base, Oregon on Saturday, September 6, 1941. The base commander, Col Joseph Stromme, hosted some 80 prospective new aviation cadets on that day, about eight of which are looking up from their single-winged reviewing stand. (Photo courtesy of the Oregonian, 142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

A number of 142nd Fighter Group personnel deployed to Ramstein Air Base, West Germany, in Operation Creek Klaxon. There they maintained and operated the McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II in a rainbow deployment with several other ANG units, forming ANG US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) Detachment 11 (ANG USAFE (Det 11)). Det 11 operated the F-4D for Zulu Alert operations as Ramstein’s active duty 526th Tactical Fighter Squadron (the Black Knights) of USAFE’s 86th Tactical Fighter Wing converted from the F-4E to the General Dynamics F-16C Viper. Oregonians helped maintain and operate two to four F-4D on continuous air defense alert operations at Ramstein, ready to scramble 24/7 for about a year in the twilight of the Cold War during Ramstein’s conversion to the F-16. Here, Oregon ANG members at Ramstein gather together for Thanksgiving dinner, 1986. (Courtesy of Ms. Gea Clausier)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

142nd Fighter Group deployed personnel gather around a McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle during their deployment to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in 1998 for Operation Northern Watch, the Iraqi Northern No-Fly Zone patrol operation. The Wing rotated three groups of Oregon Air Guardsmen, nearly 300 wing members and six 123rd Fighter Squadron F-15A Multi-Stage Improvement Program (MSIP) Eagle fighters, for duty at Incirlik during the six-week deployment period. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

First Lieutenant Faith L. Hunsdon, a flight nurse, was the first woman to join the Oregon Air National Guard in March, 1958, coming to the 142nd Fighter Group from active duty service. She’s pictured here with Major Dave “Doc” Stoddard. She served as a flight nurse in the 142nd Infirmary for 12 years, then with the Veterans Administration hospital in Portland. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Then Colonel Garry C. Dean became the first American of African descent to command the 142nd Fighter Wing in January, 2001. He later became the Oregon ANG Commander, was promoted to major general in 2008, and served as the First Air Force Commander before being assigned to duty in Europe with a NATO HQ and then as Special Assistant to the Chief, National Guard Bureau before he retired in 2015 after a distinguished 37-year career on active duty and in the ANG. People from all backgrounds proudly serve our community, state and nation in the 142nd Wing and Oregon Air National Guard, going on 80 years now and counting! (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Aircrew (pilots and Weapon System Operators) of the 123rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron gather around a McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II at Portland ANG Base for a squadron picture in 1989, late in the Cold War era and not long before the 1990 conversion to the McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle. The senior ranking member in the picture is Oregon ANG Commander Major General Charles A. Sams stands front and center in jacket and tie with some 50 aircrew members of the Redhawk squadron. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Members of the 142nd Fighter Group’s winning team at the 1976 William Tell Worldwide Weapons Meet gather for a group photo in early November 1976. The team won the F-101 category and one of the Oregon aircrews, pilot Maj Bradford A. Newell and Lt Col Donald R. Tonole, earned the Top Gun title in the category. Of note, one of the team members that year was Canadian Forces Corporal Al Currie, seen second to last from left to right in the second row. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Members of the 142nd Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (142nd CAMS) gather for a squadron picture on the parking ramp at Portland Air National Guard Base with a pair of Deuces, the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger fighter-interceptors which the unit operated between 1966 and 1971. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Several 142nd Consolidated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (142nd CAMS) maintainers pause for a picture on the ramp next to a Northrop F-89 Scorpion in this picture circa March, 1964, perhaps over a drill weekend, when all members would have been present for duty. In the first-row kneeling, from left to right are MSgt Reub Vermilyea, SSgt Denny Cox and flight chief MSgt Bod Edgerton. In the back row standing left to right are A1C Ron Edwards and SSgt Ben Jacks (Courtesy Ron Edwards). The 142nd Fighter Group flew three variants of the F-89, the D, H and J, from 1957 to 1966. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Nine 123rd Fighter Squadron fighter pilots flew combat with active duty units during the Korean War. The men were selected on the basis of their previous experience, whether they had flown combat in World War II or not, though two of the nine who had volunteered to fly combat again. Here one of the pilots, First Lieutenant Ernest P. Wakehouse, is shown after completion of his tour flying 100 combat missions in the North American F-51D Mustang in a three-month period between September 12 and December 16, 1951. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

The 371st Fighter Group had to contend with flood waters at Dole Airfield (ALG Y-7) on Armistice Day, 1944. Members of the unit contend with rising flood waters from the River Doubs. The original caption for this photo read “In angry retaliation (perhaps for dumping unexpended ordnance in it after P-47’s returned from some combat missions) . . . the Doubs River went completely berserk . . .” It is perhaps ironic that the unit, redesignated 142nd Fighter Group in May, 1946, has had to contend with river flood waters in the great flood of 1948 at Portland Air Base, and again when river flood waters threatened in 1996. (The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Ms. Katie Bins of the American Red Cross detachment serving with the 371st Fighter Group in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) gives the first “sinker” made in the unit on the Continent to the group’s Commander, Colonel Bingham T. “Bing” Kleine, at Advanced Landing Ground A-6, Beuzzeville (aka La Londe or Sainte-Mère-Église) Airfield, France, in the summer of 1944. The American Red Cross established a detachment and an Aero Club that stayed with the unit all the way through its combat service in the ETO, 1944-1945. (The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Thirteen of the original Charter members of the 123rd Observation Squadron stayed with the unit through the war with its various redesignations. Here, ten of them gather for a group picture at the squadron’s headquarters at Chanyi Air Base, China. The squadron operated the high-performance Lockheed F-5E Photo Lightning reconnaissance aircraft at Chanyi and several other detached locations, covering imagery targets in the vastness of southern China and Southeast Asia from Burma to Thailand to (then) French Indochina. From left to right, they are(kneeling) First Sergeant John Flavin, S/Sgt John Buckner, M/Sgt Kenneth Miller and M/Sgt Jack Shaylor. Standing from left to right are S/Sgt Harry Bachman, M/Sgt Roy Wolford, T/Sgt Charles Estes, Capt Harvey Lounsbury, S/Sgt Lorne Restau and S/Sgt Cyrus Dolph. Note some of the men standing sport the distinctive Redhawk emblem of the 35th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, a version of which is the emblem today for the 123rd Fighter Squadron and which we can trace back to the unit’s service overseas in 1944. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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80 Years of Oregon Air National Guard Veterans and Veterans Days

Officers and men of Oregon’s first military aviation unit, the 123rd Observation Squadron, gather at Portland’s first commercial airport, Swan Island Municipal Airport, for a squadron picture after the unit was activated for federal duty on 15 September 1941. At the time, the unit had but two aircraft, a Douglas O-46A observation aircraft (left) nicknamed “Old Awful” and a North American BC-1A basic combat trainer. Soon after, the men and aircraft moved to their duty station up at Gray Field, Fort Lewis, Washington State and transitioned to the North American O-47 observation aircraft which they operated into 1943. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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CMSgt Scott Cargin

Bio photo for CMSgt Scott Cargin
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Remembering Operation Sky Shield II, October 14-15, 1961

Oregon Air National Guard 123rd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-89J Scorpion pilot Bradford A. Newell sits in the front cockpit with hands by his helmet in this undated picture from the early 1960’s, as another crewmember, probably the aircraft’s radar observer, stands on the ladder. Perhaps they have just finished a sortie in this natural-metal finish Northrop F-89J Scorpion fighter-interceptor. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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He was “…close to my wing when flak burst between us…” - The last mission of P-47 pilot William Gorman

“MUMBLIN JOE,” a Republic P-47D-20-RE Thunderbolt, serial number 42-76452, was assigned to the 371st Fighter Group’s 405th Fighter Squadron (squadron code 8N). The aircraft bore the name of pilot Lt. Arthur W. “Bud” Holderness Jr., with the individual aircraft letter of “H” aft of the national insignia on the fuselage. It is pictured here with 41 mission symbols, bombed up and headed out for another combat mission, probably from A-6 airfield in France in the summer of 1944, probably with Lt. Holderness as the pilot. Holderness, a 1943 US Military Academy graduate, flew 142 combat missions with the 371st during the war, received the Distinguished Flying Cross, 19 Air Medals, the French Croix de Guerre, and was one of two pilots in his squadron to earn the Lead Crew Combat Pilot patch. He went on to have a long and successful postwar career in the USAF, retiring in 1971 as a brigadier general. (Via Maj Tom Silkowski, 190th Fighter Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard)
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