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The 371st Fighter Group and the Aftermath of the Holocaust

The mess area for the 404th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group at Frankfurt Eschborn Airfield (ALG Y-74). Perhaps it was here that the US Congressional representative were mistaken by unit personnel for Displaced Persons crashing the chow line. (The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO)
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The 371st Fighter Group and the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Former concentration subcamp prisoners in front of the camp in Holleischen, 1945. In March, 1945, 400 Hungarian-Jewish women were transferred from the Nuremberg subcamp to Hollesischen which held over 1,000 women, including French, Polish and Russian near the end of the war. Shortly after the liberation, these unidentified former inmates were pictured in front of where they were imprisoned. (Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial website)
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The 371st Fighter Group and the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Undated picture from Second World War era of the SS-Kaserne in Nuremberg, where between 150-300 concentration camp inmates were held and worked from May, 1941 to April, 1945. (The Nuernberg Military Community website)
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The 371st Fighter Group and the Aftermath of the Holocaust

U.S. Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky (D), Senate majority Leader and member of the congressional committee investigating Nazi atrocities (and later Vice President in the Truman administration, 1949-1953), viewed the evidence at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 24, 1945. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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The 371st Fighter Group and the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley and George S. Patton, Jr. view the charred remains of inmates in a crematorial pyre at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, a subcamp of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, on April 11, 1945. (The National World War II Museum)
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The Dusty Start: The 142nd Wing’s Early SW Asia Experience

Ms. Ann Jacky, Family Assistance Program Coordinator for Oregon, received special recognition from Oregon ANG Commander Brig Gen David E.B. Ward during the Aug 11, 1991 welcome home ceremony held in the 142nd Fighter-Interceptor Group’s aircraft maintenance hangar. (Photo by MSgt Linnay Lowry, 142WG History Archive)
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The Dusty Start: The 142nd Wing’s Early SW Asia Experience

TSgt Tommy Butler returned from duty at Mountain Home AFB, ID 142nd Services Flight, is welcomed home from his Desert Storm deployment by his commander, Maj Larry Rank at a base ceremony held in the 142nd Fighter-Interceptor Group’s aircraft maintenance hangar on Aug 11, 1991. (Photo by MSgt Linnay Lowry, in 142WG History Archive)
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The Dusty Start: The 142nd Wing’s Early SW Asia Experience

SSgt Luke Jewell was one of 26 personnel in the 142nd Security Police Flight to mobilize during Operation DESERT STORM. Employed by the Burlington Northern Railroad as a switchman, he said “it was the right thing to do” and felt it important he fulfill his professional military responsibilities. He is seen here during a CBPO mobilization briefing in February, 1991. (Photo by TSgt Tami Tate-Hall, 142WG History Archive)
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The Dusty Start: The 142nd Wing’s Early SW Asia Experience

As a dozen 142nd Civil Engineering Squadron firefighters deployed to George AFB, CA during Operation DESERT SHIELD in December, 1990, many family members and colleagues saw them off. Here, TSgt Roy Sabin and his family depart from the base mobility processing center. (Photo by TSgt Tami Tate-Hall, 142WG History Archive)
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The Dusty Start: The 142nd Wing’s Early SW Asia Experience

It’s a small world! While in the desert, TSgt Cliff Warrick chanced across SSgt Joe Holt, California ANG, who formerly served with Warrick in Oregon’s 272nd Combat Communications Squadron (CCS). Holt’s California squadron replaced Warrick’s deployed 228th CCS during the latter part of Operation DESERT SHIELD in early 1991. (142WG History Archive)
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The Dusty Start: The 142nd Wing’s Early SW Asia Experience

TSgt Warrick is seen here in Northwestern Saudi Arabian during his 1990-1991 Operation DESERT SHIELD deployment. Many who deployed early in the conflict, and some of those who did later, wore the Woodland pattern battle dress uniform as a desert camo uniform was not readily available. (142WG 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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