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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop: The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Fightin’ Bull aircrew Paul K. (PK) Robinson and Don Logan (at right) are seen here at a 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron reunion at Sheppard AFB, TX in 2010. He was flying F-4E 67-0277 on a MiGCAP in Bull Flight in the vicinity of Kep Airfield, North Vietnam on July 1, 1972. As his flight headed east toward the ocean, the enemy fired a barrage of SAMs and one of them exploded near PK’s aircraft. He and his backseater, Capt Kevin Cheney successfully ejected from the stricken jet, and were heard by other flight members talking by radio on the way down to captivity with Maj Robinson joking with Capt Cheney to meet him at base operations down at Kep Airfield. They were captured and spent nine months as POWs before release in 1973. (Courtesy of Col Lars Granath)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Fightin’ Bull aircrew Bill Olander and Don Logan (at right) are seen here at a 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron reunion at Sheppard AFB, TX in 2010. They were flying F-4E 67-0339 in Bass Flight as escort for a day strike mission over North Vietnam on July 5, 1972 when it was bounced by a MiG-21 Fishbed and their aircraft was hit by a AA-2 Atoll air-to-air missile. They had to bail out and were captured and held as POWs until release in 1973, some nine months later. In 1995, Schiffer published Don Logan’s pictorial history of his tour of duty at Korat, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972. (Courtesy of Col Lars Granath)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Col Lars Granath is seen here with a 469th Flying Training Squadron T-38 Talon at Sheppard AFB, TX in 2010. He was there with other members of the 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron to attend a squadron reunion. Note the Fighting Bull markings on the tail of the jet; the squadron tail code (EN) indicates its role as a Euro NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program unit. (Courtesy of Col Lars Granath)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

A 388th Tactical Fighter Wing F-4E prepares to launch on a combat sortie from within the shelter of a “Wonder Arch” revetment at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, during the Spring Invasion of 1972. The arches protected aircraft from North Vietnamese Army/Viet Cong rocket attacks. Lars Granath flew a number of combat missions during quick turns at South Vietnamese air bases to repel the invaders. (Don Logan, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Half of a 388th Tactical Fighter Wing surface-to-air missile (SAM) hunter-killer team, F-105G Thunderchief 63-8321 of the 6010th (later redesignated 17th) Wild Weasel Squadron and F-4E 67-0288 of the 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron, is seen here in the skies over North Vietnam. Lars Granath had occasion to work with the Wild Weasels in this role in his time with the 469th TFS. (Don Logan, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

469th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-4E 67-0379 is seen here heading north on a mission of Christmas Day, 1971. Note the brightly colored Mk 82 500-lb bombs prepared for special delivery, and the fuse extenders on the bombs mounted on the wings, to ensure their blast and fragmentation effects would be released that far above the ground. Lars Granath flew a number of interdiction missions against enemy forces infiltrating into South Vietnam from Laos, as well as strike missions against targets in North Vietnam. (Don Logan, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Emblem of the 469th Tactical Fighting Squadron, the Fightin’ Bulls. The squadron was based at Korat RTAFB from 1966 to 1972, flying the F-105D Thunderchief 1966-1968 and then the F-4E Phantom II 1968-1972. It is now a T-38 training squadron at Sheppard AFB, TX/(Don Logan, The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, 1972)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

469th Tactical Fighter Squadron Fightin’ Bulls F-4E 67-0306 was “Lars Granath’s aircraft,” and is seen here during a level weapons delivery of a dozen Mk 82 500-lb bombs in late 1971-1972. This suggests either a LORAN-guided drop with an F-4D or RF-4C from another wing used to navigate to a weather-obscured target area, or a Combat Skypot ground-based radar-guided delivery on an enemy target. Tail number 306 survived combat in Southeast Asia and then served with the 36th TFS Flying Fiends at Osan AB, Korea, before being lost in an accident with another unit in Alaska. (Courtesy of Col Lars Granath)
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Fightin’ Bull in the Indochina Shop – The Southeast Asia Service of Lars Granath

Aircraft Commander Lars Granath stands confidently by a shark-mouthed 388th Tactical Fighter Wing/469th Tactical Fighter Squadron F-4E Phantom II fighter, the type he flew from Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand on 178 combat missions and 435 combat hours with the Fightin’ Bulls of the 469th TFS from September, 1971 to August, 1972. (Antelope County News, via Col Lars Granath, 2019)
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On Priesthood and Plumbing: Father Peter Julia’s Journey to Service

Capt. Peter Julia, a chaplain in the 142nd Wing, poses for a photo in the chapel of the Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore. on March 2, 2025 where he left an indentation in the wall while tending to a burst pipe in 2022. Julia followed a long and unconventional path to priesthood and service in the Oregon Air National Guard, but he believes that he's where he's meant to be. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Steph Sawyer)
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On Priesthood and Plumbing: Father Peter Julia’s Journey to Service

Capt. Peter Julia, a chaplain in the 142nd Wing, poses for a photo at Portland Air National Guard Base, Ore. on February 2, 2025. Julia followed a long and unconventional path to priesthood and service in the Oregon Air National Guard, but believes that he's where he's meant to be. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Steph Sawyer)
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Service in her Bones: Oregon Guardsman Saves Life Through Bone Marrow Donation Program

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Kari Armstrong, 142nd Maintenance Squadron commander, poses for a photo while donating bone marrow at a San Deigo, Calif. medical facility, in 2024. Armstrong recently donated her bone marrow to a patient in need through the Department of Defense Bone Marrow Donation Program. The program works to match service members throughout the U.S. military to critically ill patients throughout the world. (Courtesy Photo)
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Service in her Bones: Oregon Guardsman Saves Life Through Bone Marrow Donation Program

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Kari Armstrong (pictured here as a Maj.), 142nd Maintenance Squadron commander, poses for a photo at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. in February of 2019. Armstrong recently donated her bone marrow to a patient in need through the Department of Defense Bone Marrow Donation Program. The program works to match service members throughout the U.S. military to critically ill patients throughout the world. (Courtesy Photo)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

View of previously damaged P-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt, serial number 44-33148 of the 404th Fighter Squadron (squadron code 9Q), 371st Fighter Group, in one of the repaired hangars at Metz which offered much improved conditions to the engineers (aircraft maintainers) working to keep them flying. The 371st Fighter Group enjoyed an outstanding aircraft maintenance record, reflected in the group’s ability to generate and sustain a record number of number of sorties in March, 1945. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

A battle-damaged Republic P-47D-30-RA Thunderbolt, serial number 44-33148 of the 404th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, returned safe if not sound to Metz Airfield (Y-34) after combat with the enemy, March, 1945. The aircraft was subsequently repaired. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

Grim results of fighter-bomber attacks on enemy motor transport are seen here on a stretch of road between Kaiserslautern and Bad Dürkheim, Germany as the 371st Fighter Group helped Third Army get to the Rhine River in March, 1945. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

The fighter squadron armorers at Metz (Y-34) were kept busy to keep aircraft armed for all the missions flown by the 371st Fighter Group. Not only were the P-47 pilots burning up tens of thousands of rounds of .50 caliber machine gun ammunition in lucrative attacks against enemy forces, but they were also burning up gun barrels from the frequent, intense strafing against the enemy. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

German locomotives in a marshalling yard worked over by fighter-bombers. Locomotives, boxcars, gondola cars, flat cars and marshalling yards were frequently the targets of 371st Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber attacks in the Saar-Palatinate operations of March, 1945. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

P-47D Thunderbolt “CAMP FIRE” with Lt. Howard C. Camp, 405th Fighter Squadron of the 371st Fighter Group, returning from a mission over Germany. Note the pilot has cracked open the canopy. Lt. Camp was awarded the Air Medal and the 1st Oak Leaf Cluster during the month of March, 1945. The P-47D “Spark Plug” is seen beyond on the outside of the formation. (Source: “The Story of the 371st Fighter Group in the ETO.”)
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Getting Patton to the Rhine

Map of the Battle Area in the Saar-Palatinate Triangle, 12 – 21 March 1945 (Source: MacDonald, Charles B., U.S. Army in World War II, European Theater of Operations, The Last Offensive, Chapter XII The Saar-Palatinate)
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