My sincere thanks to Steve Morgan 1957-1958, for these great photos...Captions were furnished by Steve..... |
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One of the two USO shows we enjoyed during 1957-1958 |
From left to right- a dancer (very acrobatic); one of our officers and three members of the troop |
The pretty dancer at the beginning of her routine. All the cameras were heating up, and so were our fantasies! |
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Also very attractive. In the background--standing (left) is A/1C Vladimer "Winch" Winchell, friend and ops crew chief, and (right) is "Red" Gushue, a very funny guy. Harold Ackeret is sitting in the front row on the left. Eddie Reyes is sitting in front of Winchell... |
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Another photo of that weekend shown in Bill Price's photos. This picture and others were taken on May 19, 1958, the day we came back to MDO. Left to riight --Eddie Reyes, Steve Morgan and Bill Sangster. Another one of the guys is in the background. Notice the "cute hats"--we had to buy something, as there weren't any Cordova T-shirts in those days! |
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Our "hero", A/1C Motes, "bon vivante" and our "shotgun". He was the star of the funniest incident that I witnessed that year. That day we left Cordova, Motes needed some "fuel" for the plane ride back to MDO. Here he is finishing one of the three bottles he consumed in the one hour that it took to get from that location, via the bus to the airport, and the flight back to MDO. The other two bottles were half pints of flavored vodka! One hour later when we landed on MDO, Motes had passed out in the rear seat of the plane. It took 2--3 guys to get him to the doorway, where he shook them off, and proceeded down the "stairs". Halfway down, he collapsed, and slid the rest of the way, and passed out at the feet of our new CO (don't remember his name). Our CO had arranged the weekend, and was there to greet us on our return. Also present was F/Sgt. Kirby Steinhauer with his movie camera. Kirby was laughing so hard, he could hardly keep the camera steady. Not our CO. He was deeply religous, and didn't like the drinking and gambling (we didn't do those things, did we?) in the first place, although he was smart enough to ignore it--for the sake of morale. After a couple of minutes, Mote awoke, seemingly unhurt. The CO told him to report to his office at 8am the next morning. Motes was not disciplined--just a "mild" chewing out. And that's how Motes acquired his "hero" status. |
