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This site is dedicated to the men and women of the 30th Communications Squadron. The squadron was activated October 17, 1946 at Andrews AFB, MD. and moved to Offutt AFB, NE. November 9, 1948 where it stayed until deactivation October 1, 1970. Site contents have grown to include some information about other bases, units, and personnel.
Albert J. Wheat, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 1952
Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, 1955
Omaha, 2004
The emblem on the left was first used by the Army Air Force. It was later used as a shoulder patch by the new United States Air Force. The new USAF sometimes wore it on the left shoulder of fatigue jackets with an arc patch designating the command directly above it.
The blue sky represents Air Force Operations. The arm and armor is a symbol of strength, power, and loyalty. The olive branch, a symbol of peace, and the lightning flashes, symbols of speed and power, were qualities underlying the missions of the Strategic Air Command.
3902ND AIR BASE WING
This unit was at the top of the command structure in the Strategic Air Command
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30TH Communications Squadron (former personnel)
Addresses Known
Addresses Unknown
30th Comm Personnel From David Hartley's List of Some Individuals in The Squadron in 1958 & 1959
30th Comm Personnel from Bill Leitz. Promotions to Private First Class and Corporal in 1951
Offutt Aircraft Accidents and Other Official
Reports
Photos of Top Sergeants and Officers of 30th, 31st, and 1st Comm in 1962
Photo of Base Commander and Offutt Top Sergeants in 1962
Offutt in the 1950s - Photos (page 2)
Offutt Personnel - 1950 through 1955 (most non-30th Comm)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 2)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 3)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 4)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 5)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 6)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 7)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 8)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 9)
30th Comm Photographs and Memories of the 1950s (page 10)
30th Comm Photographs (Some Squadron Members of the 1950s)
More 30th Comm Photographs (Some Squadron Members of the 1950s)
Hill Gettler and Elkhorn Pals Photos (1954- 1956)
Marvin Cook's Photos and Memories - 30th Comm. at Wahoo, Elkhorn and Mead and his time in Vietnam
Tom Dean's Photos and Memories Including 30th Comm at Offutt AFB
SAC and General Curt LeMay Remembered
30th Comm's Murl Ming (Narratives)
Clothing Allowances and Uniforms - 1950
McCook Army Air Base, Nebraska: History, Photos and Reunions
Sheppard Air Force Base - Basic Training (Photos and Names) 1950
Lackland Air Force Base - Basic Training (Photos) 1950
Lackland Air Force Base - Basic Training (Photos) 1950, Page Two
Americans, Newfoundlanders, and
Dutch - The Ties That Bind
U.S. Air Force in Newfoundland and The Northeast During the Cold War
U.S. Air Force in Newfoundland and The Northeast (Personnel Pg 1)
U.S. Air Force in Newfoundland and The Northeast (Personnel Pg 2)
U.S. Air Force in Newfoundland and Northeast(Personnel Pg.3)
U.S. Air Force in Newfoundland and Northeast) (Pepperrell AFB Arrivals and Departures)
64th Air Division ADCC blockhouse (interior view) located in the White Hills of Pepperrell AFB
Dave Johnson Photos (8 pages) of Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland and Goose Bay, Labrador
Ray Reiser Photo's of Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland (Four Pages)
Ray Reiser Photos of an RB-36 Aircraft that crashed at Burgoynes Cove, Newfoundland in 1953
Gene Lamkin and his early days at Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland
642nd AC & W Personnel at Red Cliff AS, Newfoundland in 1958, 1959, and 1960
Bob Weitzel at 926th AC&W Sq, Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, N.W.T., 1954 - 1955
St. John's Newfoundland area photos from 1955 and today.
St. John's, Newfoundland and Pepperrell AFB Area Photos (1957)
St. John's, Newfoundland and Pepperrell AFB Area Photos 1984 and later
Pope Air Force Base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina - 1958/59
Compiled Photos of 30th Comm Men at Various Reunions
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1993 - 30th Comm
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1993 - 30th Comm (page 2
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1993 - 30th Comm (page 3)
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1993 - 30th Comm (page 4)
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1993 - 30th Comm (page 5)
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1993 - 30th Comm (page 6)
Colorado Springs Reunion Photographs - 1995 - 30th Comm
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1997 - 30th Comm
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1997 - 30th Comm (page two)
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1997 - 30th Comm (page 3)
Omaha Reunion Photographs - 1997 - 30th Comm (page 4)
Texas Reunion Photographs - 1999 - 30th Comm
Mississippi Reunion Photo - 2004 - 30th Comm
Omaha Reunion Photographs for 2006 - 30th Comm
Omaha Reunion Photographs for 2006 - 30th Comm (Page Two)
Omaha Reunion Photographs for 2006 - 30th Comm (Page Three)
Omaha Reunion Photographs for 2006 - 30th Comm (Page Four)
Omaha Reunion Photographs for 2006 - 30th Comm (Page Five)
30th Communications Squadron History
30th Communications Squadron Reunions - Past and Next
Army Air Bases and Air Force Bases in Continental US through 1957
United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy
WEB SITES OWNED BY OTHERS
Unsung heroes of WWII and their ship the USS Salt Lake City a heavy cruiser
See
John Stott's Narsarssuak
Air Base, Greenland, Web Site which includes our Old Sarge John Hunt's
photographs and article.
Our Robert Bell is one of few to ever have served aboard one of these Texas Tower air defense platforms in the Atlantic Ocean.
Cold War Air Defenses PineTree Line Canada and Northeast
Visit with DON USHMAN a veteran of 34 years with the USAF who started as a crypto operator and who includes Newfoundland, Ontario, Colorado, and Michigan among his primary duty stations
Merritt Scharnweber and Long Line crews of the 1st Communications Construction Squadron in Newfoundland and Greenland
Wayne Setzer and the 642nd AC & W Squadron at Red Cliff Air Force Station in Newfoundland
Visit Sembach Air Base, Germany (many photos)
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE
Memories of Bellevue and Fort Crook by Merritt Scharnweber
We used to live on Burt Murphy Boulevard over in Bellevue. This was during the Second War. Dad had quit his telephone job at Mitchell, South Dakota and moved us all down there so he could work there in the Glenn L. Martin plant building the B-26 Marauder and later the B-29. He worked on the instrument panels. He was on the late shift and walked to work. The Army Air Force also had a big modification plant there so we got to see all kinds of aircraft. I remember that at one time I knew what a plane was just by the sound before you saw it.
One of the gates to get on base was just a little ways from the hill that we lived on and the NE to SW runway ended there at the NE end. The B-26s would taxi down there and then sit and rev up their motors for the longest time. When the planes took off towards the northeast, they went right over Bellevue and the school that I went to. Mom could watch them from the kitchen window which was on the back side of the house as the front of the house faced west. One day she happened to glance out and a B-25 was taking off past the window with the left engine on fire and smoking badly. The pilot banked towards the northwest to try and land on the NW to SE runway, but the bad engine pulled him down and he landed on one of the plant buildings. This was at the noon hour so there was few workers in the building. The crew didn't make it.
There were a lot of B-25s around there as that 75mm cannon was installed there.
1951 Map contributed by Joe Gervais
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