voq # 20. gus letto lived here for his first month at ... · boq 18 room 36, ready for inspection....
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
![Page 2: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
![Page 3: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at Lockbourne.
![Page 4: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
![Page 5: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Lt. Ed Brawley and WO Al Rakstis in a room at the BOQ.
![Page 6: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection.
![Page 7: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms.
![Page 8: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
There were plenty of aeronautical charts available for decoration.
![Page 9: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Gus Letto’s first brand-new car, a 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air.
![Page 10: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
![Page 11: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Simulator class in Operation Earlybird, on base training for
new B-47 copilots.
![Page 12: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
John “Jack” Evanko in simulator class room.
![Page 13: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Control panel, RB-47 simulator.
![Page 14: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Cockpit, RB-47 simulator.
![Page 15: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
![Page 16: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Pistol qualification at firing range, early 1956.
![Page 17: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Pistol qualification at firing range.
![Page 18: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Koch, Bob Walts, Wes Fry, Barney Calligan, Vacarro, range monitor.
![Page 19: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
‘Deadeye’ Roloff
![Page 20: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Standard issue 4-inch, .38 caliber pistol.
![Page 21: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Roloff and Koch?, shooting it out.
![Page 22: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
![Page 23: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Don Weibel, mission planning.
![Page 24: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Building a new partition in the 4th SRS 1st Sgt’s office.
![Page 25: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Barney Calligan, leaving 4th SRS Headquarters building.
![Page 26: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Bob Walts in officers locker room.
![Page 27: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
A/1C Wayne Weddle, 4th SRS squadron clerk.
![Page 28: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
![Page 29: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
4th SRS RB-47E with APQ-56 side looking radar radome.
![Page 30: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
RB-47E 52-716 with APQ-56 radome. *
![Page 31: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
RB-47E formation flight. 10th SRS S/N 52-3383.
![Page 32: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
RB-47E 52-716 with APQ-56 radome. *
![Page 33: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
RB-47E formation flight: 52-697 in foreground.
![Page 34: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
RB-47E formation flight.
![Page 35: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
RB-47E 52-3391.
![Page 36: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
![Page 37: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Operation Grandslam, Nov 58, Gus Letto in flight line truck.
![Page 38: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Sgt Friese and LtCol. Williams playing cards while waiting
for aircraft to become ready for preflight.
![Page 39: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Operation Grandslam, EB-47E 53-2169, being towed to position.
![Page 40: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Loading ATO bottles.
![Page 41: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Lt. Col Williams and Lt. Col Bell inspecting ATO bottles.
![Page 42: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Operation Big Sickle, EB-47E formation.
![Page 43: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
EB-47E 53-2126 in formation with partial load of ATO bottles.
![Page 44: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
Operation Big Sickle EB-47E 53-2126.
![Page 45: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Operation Big Sickle, 53-2126 Apr 1960.
![Page 46: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Crews on alert. Preflighting Dave’s Nicolson’s model plane.
![Page 47: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Crews on alert flying Dave Nicolson’s model airplane.
![Page 48: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
Posting the alert crew status board.
![Page 49: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
Jimmy Moore getting instruction on the portable HF single
sideband radio.
![Page 50: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
Passing time at the ‘mole hole’.
![Page 51: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/51.jpg)
Dave Nicolson working on a model airplane.
![Page 52: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/52.jpg)
John Gnan, working on a SOS Spanish course.
![Page 53: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/53.jpg)
John Gnan talking on the phone with Nancy.
![Page 54: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/54.jpg)
Crew briefing room. Tom Richards went on later to
become an FAA Administer.
![Page 55: VOQ # 20. Gus Letto lived here for his first month at ... · BOQ 18 Room 36, ready for inspection. BOQ 18 Room 36. No wallboard or paint in the BOQ rooms. There were plenty of aeronautical](https://reader034.vdocument.in/reader034/viewer/2022050610/5fb108f4e1837e584b4ae7f3/html5/thumbnails/55.jpg)
* This aircraft was subsequently transferred to the
90th SRW at Forbes AFB, KS. On Apr. 13, 1960 the
aircraft crashed near Perrin, MO While on a pilot
upgrade mission. Aboard were an instructor pilot,
two pilots and a crew chief. Without a navigator to
provide guidance, the crew opted to climb above
the thunderstorms and were outside of the optimum
operating envelope for the aircraft. When the
aircraft flew into a thunderstorm it was wracked
with violent updrafts and downdrafts that ripped the
RB-47 apart. One pilot and the crew chief bailed out
and survived the ordeal. (Al T. Lloyd, 18 Sep 2003)