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The VHPA Aviator

Newsletter Item Number: 999Newsletter595167
Pages
48
Media Type
Newsletter
Information removed from digital copy?
Yes
Physical Location
Stacks Periodical COllection
Copyright Statement
©Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association. All rights reserved.
Language(s)
English
Collection
Vietnam Center Collection
Association
Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)

999Newsletter595167 pdf
Volume
32
Issue
03
The VHPA Aviator (Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)) - Newsletter - Citrus Heights, California
Publication
The VHPA Aviator
Publisher/Org.
Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association (VHPA)
City
Citrus Heights, California
Country
United States
Frequency
Bi-Monthly
Type
Newsletter
General Note
2005- / Earlier Title: The VHPA Newsletter (1984-2004)
Dates
Publication: May/June 2014
General Note
FROM THE PRESIDENT FROM Bill "Moon" Mullen
The Education Center at the Vietnam Memorial Wall


LETTERS:
Steel horses FROM Conn Bomstead
1st reunion - aviation platoon, HHC 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Divsion FROM Pete Rzeminnski
Memories and thoughts of Memorial Day FROM John Barron
To the editor of the VHPA Aviator FROM Byron Edington
To the editor of the VHPA Aviator FROM Bob Eustice
To the editor of the VHPA Aviator FROM Ron Miller
To the editor of the VHPA Aviator FROM John Strickland
Your history, your legacy FROM Mike Sloniker


FEATURES:
History in flight BY Skip Robinson
My brothers... BY Terry Garlock
Two mike model huey's restoration projects BY Kevin Vislocky
The rescue of "Grumpy" Grimaldi BY Virginia Kropf
Echoes of live unlived: family scrapbook opens a window on personal histories abruptly altered when war claimed young Americans BY David Latimer


REUNION:
Two combat tours in Vietnam then head-to-head with John McEnroe BY Ken Slye
An update on the 31st reunion of the VHPA BY Mike Law
Official schedule of events
Gold star family breakfast BY Julie Kink
Overflow hotels for the Louisville reunion
OH-6A Zero Two Six: owned and operated by VHPA member FROM Peter Q. Bales


VHPA CHAPTER ACTIVITIES:
Oklahoma Chapter - Provisional BY John Gaines
Hawaii Chapter - Provisional BY Ken DeHoff
Fort Wolters Chapter BY Adam steczko
Upper Midwest Chapter BY Bert Leach
Michigan Chapter BY Rich Deer
Old Dominion Chapter BY Hugh Adams
Georgia Chapter BY Bill McRae
Alaska Chapter BY Lynn Kile
VHPA of Florida BY Tom Rountree
California Chapter North BY Ken Fritz
South Missouri Chapter BY Bill Thompson
Alamo Chapter BY Kirk "Chip" Brown
North Alabama Chapter BY Les Haas
North Carolina Chapter BY Brock Nicholson


TAPS:
Sherman Anderson - Keith Leroy Anthony - Jeffrey E. Blaisedell - James Franklin Bowden - Thomas Edward Bowden - Randolph Brooke - James Larry Conger - John C. Crow - Willie L. Davis - Alex Bing Dawkins - Richard Charles Diesing - Gerald Douglass - Douglas V. Guentz - Daniel R. Harris - Ronald R. Hendricks - Melvin C. Howell - Francis Arthur Keeley - Frank H. Jones - Gene D. Kleese - Roy Hilton Leggett - David V. Leins - Gary Lineberry - Alfred B. McClintock - Allyn Noel - Daniel O'Hara - William C. Rousse - Donald McClellan Sheetz II - Lawrence Peter Shemley - James H. Smith - Joseph L. Sullivan - Paul M Strepper - Waaren D. Tinseth - David Ashton Williams - Robert L. Murphy - James Andrew Garner - Sherril Anson Hannah - Bruce McCaffrey - Michael McGinity - Mel K. Ruiz - Robert Allen Woods


LOOKING FOR:
Looking for... aviation warrant officers caught in 1971 rif BY Tom Morrissey
Looking for...'Hooch Mates' of wo-1 John D. Bryant
Looking for... members familiar with helicopters in combat in Korea from 1950-1953 BY John R. "Rick" Taylor
Looking for... pilots from the 326th Med BR involved in a dust-off mission on 4 April 1968 BY Jerry R. Fry
Looking for... blue max four eight india one BY Jimmy Johnson
Looking for... Fort Stewart class photo of WOC class 69-41 BY Charlie Stauft
Looking for... dust off pilots who saved my life on 24 Oct. 1969 BY Jerry Donellan
Looking for... Army pilots in support of Operation Dewey Canyon BY Peter Paden
Looking for... pilots who served with cw3 Marion "Bud" Everhart BY Nick McGarry
Looking for... Bill Toothe BY David C. King
Looking for... pilot of 335th AHC aircraft that crashed on Thanksgiving Day of 1967 BY George Woodward
Looking for... family contact information on cwo Zagkos BY George Pedroza
Looking for... the wife or family of Ernie Brown BY Don W. Ritter
Looking for... anyone with knowledge of the death of Dickey Chapelle BY Casey Long
Looking for... friends of Francis John Hnatiuk BY T.E. Allen
Looking for... information concerning the death of sp4 John Terrence (Terry) Kyle BY Kenny Kile
Looking for... memories of my dad, Orville Bolhofner BY Mark Bolhofner
Looking for... help id'ing the man in these photos BY Tom Frankenfield
Looking for... someone interested in preserving the history of the 128th AHC "Tomahawks" BY Dave McDaniel


BOOK REVIEWS:
First in Vietnam BY John Penny
I flew with heroes BY John Penny
Invasion of Laos - Lam Son 719 BY John Penny
Tacoma blue BY John Penny
The blades carry me BY John Penny
Without parachutes BY John Penny
Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=999Newsletter595167
Citation
The VHPA Aviator, 999Newsletter595167. No Date, Vietnam Center Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=999Newsletter595167, Accessed 26 Jan 2026.
Pub Credit Line
999Newsletter595167, Vietnam Center Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
Added: 09 Jun 2015 [Updated: 20 Apr 2017]

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