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Welcome to the
1616th Support Sq - MATS aka 4th Aerial Port Sq
Page
of the
Châteauroux Air Station Website!
Three very important people financially
support this squadron for which I am very grateful. I think they're great folks who help
to keep these memories alive.
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ADAMEK, CWO William A. - 1920 - 2004 See
Chas Memorium
 1616th
Support Sq
@ Chas 1962-1966 &1957-1960
San Antonio, TX |
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BARNETT,
Don
@ Chas: 1959-60
1616th Support Sq
Douglasville, GA
12-20-06 I'm glad that I found this site. Thank you! |
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BELL, Raymond
@ Chas: 1960-64
1616th Support Sq
Fairfield, CA
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BISHOP, Walter J.
@ Chas: 58-61
1616th Support Sq
Austin, TX 8
-13-03:
I was stationed at Chad also in 58 to 61 in the 1616th support sqdrn. in the comm/nav shop. I retired in 1974 after 22 years. now living in
austin texas.
9-03-04 Searching for members of the 1616th Support Sq
[jpnote: Walter & his wife
attended a bar-b-que dinner and evening get-together with some of us Châteauroux
folks - 2004.] |
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BOATMAN, Bill
@ Chas 1962-65
1616 Support Sq (MATS)
West Terre Haute , IN
06/24/2001I was stationed at Châteauroux from 1962 to 1965 with the 1616 Support Sq.
(MATS). I played baseball with John Doyle, Jim and Tim Riley.
I just spent the wk. end with John, Jim Ledbetter, Marty Martinez and went by to
see Evo Mini. Had a great reunion and would like to do it again, 37
years is too long to wait. Would like to hear from some of the men I
worked with at MATS.
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BRYANT, Elton Lee, Jr.
1616th Support Sq
Melbourne, FL 6-3-04 Worked Records and Reports, Space
Control, and Air Freight at Déols and resided in Barracks 107 or 108, next to
the gym in La Martinerie.Would like to hear from you guys.
Lee
Bryant Memories
Lee blending in at St Andre Market
 Lee - 1987 - Year of Retirement
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BROWN, Raymond E.
@Chas 1956-1960
4th Aerial Port
Temple Hills, MD
5-16-07 Worked in the IBM section and was a
Loadmaster. (Worked for Bill Adamek - see entry above)
7/17/2007 Daughter, Sonia R. Brown was
Born at Chas Feb 24,
1959 & son, Norbert Harold Brown, was
Born at Chas in 1958 Feb 17 at the clinic. We attended the reunion
in Chateauroux in 1998.
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BUCHANAN, Jerry
@ Chas: 64-66
Ocala, FL
9-17-07 Been a long time
ago. I remember a few names, not many. I was probably drunk most of my time
there.
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CREEKMORE, Roland
Daughter, Donna
Born @ CHAS
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DOOLITTLE, Bill
1616th Support Sq
@ Chas: 1958-59
10-25-04 Just came across your site
while searching for old memories. This site indeed brings back a lot of
memories. "Really enjoyed my time at Châteauroux.
From there the unit I was with had flights all over Europe and I got to see a
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DRAYTON, Rollin
1616th Support Sq
@ Chas: 1965-66
Orlando, FL
4-7-04
Searching Betty & Charles Bennett |
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FROSHOUR, Marion "Red"
@ Chas: 1960-1964
1616th Support Sq
Centerville, GA
Greetings from Georgia, My wife Lucette (who is from Châteauroux) and I have
travelled the world over and have enjoyed ourselves. We have been married
for 42 years. We visit Châteauroux as often as possible to visit with her
family. I was a transporter( and retired as one after 30 years), in the
1616th Support Sq, when we left in 1964, I was an A1C (E4) at the time.
We were in the USAF for 30 years,
stationed in Charleston SC., Mactan PI, Clark AB PI, Norton AFB Ca, Tan Son Nhut
RVN, Bien Thuy RVN, Lindsay AS Ger, Ramstein AB Ger, Travis AFB Ca, Ramstein AFB
Ger (again) and Lastly, Robins AFB Ga. We retired as a CMSgt in 1989. I am
currently the Materiel/Purchasing Manager for my corporation, SKE Support
Service Inc. Our home address is 310 Woodhaven Road, Centerville, Ga. 31028-1316
and our HP is 478 923-9093 and my work number is 478 923-1575.
[jpnote: Red requested his personal info be placed on the website.]
Elton Bryant told us about this site (thank you Lee) and it is super, please let Lucette and me know where you are, please contact us. Last I heard Joe Gemora
and his wife Nicole (from Limoge) was in Tampa Fla, retired as a CMSgt, Bob
Frenette is still in Châteauroux somewhere. Ray Bell is in Fairfield Calif and I
have his phone number etc. Eric Bledsoe who is the son of Phil and Liliane
(deceased) (from Châteauroux), Eric Bledsoe is in Centerville Georgia. I think
Phil belonged to the Supply Sq.??
[jpnote: Phil
& his wife, Nola, attended a bar-b-que dinner in San Antonio in October
2004 with some of us Chas folx.]
Thanks for putting this site together
it is great.
Red and Lucette Froshour
[jpnote: Reconnected Red & Bruce Pethel 9-27-04] 10-18-07 New guestbook entry: Hi, guys and girls, Need to update
my info. Probably should add us to the Chas Marriages: Lucette and I were
married in Chas 27 Apr 1962, she was born and raised in
Chas, her last name was DUBREU. Thanks for the memories and we have tons of
pictures. This is a great web site, keep it up. Red and Lucette
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HAWKINS,
Jim A/1C - 1616th Support Sq
Chas
Memorium
- Chas Marriages - Born
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HAWKINS, Janine Artaud
- widow of A/1C Jim (listed
above)
 I was the secretary for the 1616th Support Sqdn, (Traffic) Col Fahringer
(1957) then for Capt. Fred, and major Troy, at Déols. Lt. Miller is in the background.
In 1961, I married in the USA, A/1C Jim
Hawkins, who worked until Feb 1960 at a refueling station, small shack
by the 1616th. [Janine & Jim's son was
born at Chas.]
My best
friend Liliane whose father ran the U.S. gas station on the way to La
Martinerie was working also for the 1616th and later on at Traffic
Control. We both live in El Paso, TX now and would love to hear from
old friends either French or American. We have very fond memories of
the ol" Chad!!!!!!
 [Janine
on the left and her Chad alumnus friend, Judy Alger '59 when they reunioned in 2003. They found each other through the
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HOGAN, Joseph H.
@ Chas: 1-62 till 7-63
1616 Support Sq (Movement Control Team)
Fairfield, CA
05/11/2003Comments: I transferred to Chas from RAF Station Mildenhall, England to be a part of the Control Team. I was at Mildenhall Jan 1960 till Jan 1962.
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HUDSON, Woodrow Jr.
1616th Support Sq (formerly 4th Aerial Port)
@ Chas:
Jan 1956 to Jan 1959
Westerville, OH
 1-5-07 I played on the base basketball team in 1957 and 1958. We won the French
championship and the French Olympics those years. Loved my time in France.
Searching: Any one who was a
friend.
See
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KURASZ, William
@ Chas: 1963 - 1965
1616 Support Sq (MATS) Air Freight
Spring Hill, FL
Searching for: Any members of the old sqdn
9-23-04 I enjoyed the time at Chas; made
some good friends, saw Bob Gloria in 68; stood up at his wedding in Trenton, NJ.
Talked to Ed Siemontowski. He got a divorce and went to Nevada. I hired a
salesman in Maine; turned out Joe Gagne is his uncle - small world. I saw
quite a few guys as I was operations manager for Capitol Airways at
Wright-Patterson . This is a great site. Congrats.
10-30-04 [jpnote: Bill wrote to say he has some memorabilia to
share. I look forward to receiving it.
2-21-08 Still checking my mailbox for that memorabilia.]
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LINDSEY, Bill
@ Chas: 1964-66
1616th Support Sq (MATS)
Wilmington, DE
2-15-07 [jpnote: Bill was a photographer
at Chas. He is still in the photography business - See his personal website at
www.lindseystudio.com I found Bill on the
Net and left a voice mail for him introducing the website and inviting him to
visit. He did and we connected on the phone and had a nice conversation.
We wonder what happened to Dorothy Buschell (sp) who was a teacher at Chad or
Touvent Elementary.]
10-3-07 I had the time of my life when I was stationed
there. Ispent most of my
time at Joe From Maine. I remember Sgt. Davis, A1c. John Predmore, A1c. J.R., A1c.
Edward Jerge (Tiny).
[jpnote: Ed's brother J.M.
emailed me after seeing Bill's guestbook entry!] Went to Paris every weekend and drank a lot of
red wine! Searching: Anyone that was a photographer at the Base
Photo Lab when I was there and anybody that remembers Dorothy Buschelle a school
teacher at the Base School. Really miss the good old days.
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MARTIN, Tom
@
Chas: 1962-1965
1616th Support Sq MATS - air freight data processing
Tampa, FL
04/01/2002
I played on the base football & basketball teams.
jpnote: I think Tom and
Cheech Marin resemble :) 
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McCOMMONS, Harry "Mac"
@ Chas: 1961-64
1616th Support Sq (Loadmaster)
North Carolina
12-27-04 Assigned 1616th Sup Sq 1961-1964 as a Loadmaster in the Air
Freight section. Oh yes, great memories--"Red" Froshur and his Ford
[Red's entry above]--"Hog Head" Pangerich with a Chicken in
his barrack room on one occasion and shortly after that--a Goat. Going to
Goldie's after hrs-- after Joe-from-Maine closed.
Retired in 1985 as CMSgt after 30 yrs in the Air
Force. Started working in 1987 at Ft. Bragg, NC with the Special Ops folks
and am still in the same business. I'm 68 yrs old and am still hoppin' and
poppin' and deploying around the world. Thanks for the site--its
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PALMISANO,
T/Sgt William J.
1616th Support Sq (formerly 4th Aerial Port)
@ Chas:
1956-59
Felton,
DE
2-12-06 [Entry from wife, Pat) - Bill was a T/Sgt when we were at Chad, he
was assigned to 4th Aerial Port. He arrived at Chad in August 1956 but the
children and I didn't arrive until March 1957 because we had to wait until our
youngest was born before we could go.
We first lived in a three-story house in Gargilesse and this was
a wonderful way to become mired (literally sometimes) in the French
culture. After a year there, we found a house in Châteauroux (actually
Déols, I think)Rue de Salles in the
St. Christophe section. Our third son, Christopher Damian, was
Born @ Chas
(Nov
1958)at La Martinerie and baptised at St Christophe's Catholic Church.
And, yes, that's how he came to be named Christopher - the parish priest
told us he was the first child to be baptised with that name in that church
and the first American to be baptised there as well.
Our two oldest
children went to school at a little school near where we lived on Rue de Salles. We were friends with two special couples while there, TSgt Frank
and Verna Brown and TSgt Johnny and Inge Johnson. We lost touch with the
Browns but still are in touch with Inge Johnson. Sadly, Johnny passed away
several years ago.
[jpnote: This is not the same
John Johnson in the 7120th ABN] We used to play
pinochle with them almost every night - no tv, you know! When we left
Chas in August 1959, we were assigned to Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, TX
and later, Travis, before Bill was sent to Nha Trang. Later
assignments were Robins AFB GA; Charleston AFB SC; Ft Monroe, VA; and finally,
Dover AFB DE wherehe retired and we now live in Felton,
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PETHEL, Bruce
@ Chas: 62-65
1616th Support Sq
Concord, NC
"Let us all just hope we don't
wind up on our deathbed and find out that 'The Hokie-Pokie' really was
what it was all about." Bruce
1-28-04 Thanx to Bill Boatman
for this intro. I have GREAT memories from those years! So many friends, Jerry
Steinman, Dave Flanders, Bernie Hadley, Red Froshour, Tom Pangerich, George
Gayheart, Wayne Bertolino, and others made those memories for me. Monsieurs
Georges Ballereau and Leon Tremien (our old janitor in the Air Freight bldg)
where I worked in the little IBM room running cargo manifests - note from BP
1-8-07: Leon passed away). Goldie's, The Crazy Bar, Frogpond. Those were good
years. I'd like to hear from old comrades.
9-26-04 I just read over
some of the entries and had a rush of great memories (62-65). I worked in
the little room in the Air Freight Terminal, running manifests for our
flights>. Elton Bryant's note listed so many of the folks who have a place in my
thoughts; for a few moments I was back at the Crazy Bar, Goldie's, the
Frog Pond...or maybe remembering the snack bar at Déols where a cheese
omelet covered with chili was a treat. I'll never forget the French
cook's face when I ordered the first one. He was pretty sure I was out of
my gourd. Turned out to be a favorite of a lot of us. Married twice,
divorced once, retired in 1981. 2nd wife died in '82. 3 grown children:
Daughter, Myra, is an attorney, and was
Born @ Chas. John is LCMDR, USN, and Paul is a Major, USAF.
Good luck to all of you..Bruce Pethel, Concord, NC
[jpnote: Reconnected Bruce & Red Froshour 9-27-04 ]
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SIEMIONTKOWSKI, Edward
1962-1965
1616th Support Sq
Accokeek, MD
12-30-04 Searching for Barry Hoffa |
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SNIDER, Dwight, Ret. Lt. Col
1616th SUPPRON - Cargomaster
6-2004 - Comments from son, Dwight Snider Class of '62
Lt. Col. Dwight Snider is indeed my father.
He was NCOIC of the 1616th SUPPRON, and Cargomaster. For most of his
career, my father flew passenger aircraft. He was a crewman for the
aircraft of all US presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt through Gerald
Ford. He retired in the mid-seventies at the rank of Lt.
Colonel. During his tenure at the 1254th Air Wing at Washington
National Airport, (The VIP Squadron), and later at the 89th MAW at Andrews
Air Force Base, he created the Distinguished Visitors Squadron, and set up
the training program for flight attendants for Air Force One and all other
89th MAW aircraft. His efforts made the Wing the envy of every
head-of-state in the world. He suffered a stroke in February, 2003,
and is slowly recovering. He can now get out of his wheelchair by
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STARZYK, Ronald S.
@ Chas: 1957-60
1616th Support Sq
(formerly 4th Aerial Port)
Algonquin, IL
11-15-05 enjoyed the article on wo
adamek. i remember coaching his son allan at chad little league. my stay in
chad was enjoyable and was lucky to see a great deal of europe
Searching: any member of the
4th aerial port sq or 1616 support sq (mats) |
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STEINMAN, Gerald - See
Chas Memorium
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STOWELL, Dick - Unlocated
1-22-08 Lee Bryant wrote: While
perusing the “Squadrons Link” for unidentified personnel, I recognized the name
Dick Stowell. Dick was in the 1616th and one of my roommates along with Bob
Gilkey, John Case, and Dave Lang. I do not know his inclusive dates of
assignment. A little tid-bit about Dick – if he ever left the barracks for any
reason he would press his pants and shirt…he was a neat and great guy. |
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SULLIVAN, Larry
@ Chas: July 1961-July 1964
1616th Support Sq
Hermon, ME
I worked in air freight at Déols. Lived in
the barracks next to the gym. I enjoyed my 3 yrs in France very much, and still
think about it a lot even to this day. After Chas I went to Travis AFB and then
discharge and home to Maine. I have very fond memories of my time there. |
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WELLS, Charles "Charlie"
@ Chas: 1961-1964
1616th Support Sq
1602nd Air Transport Wing
Ft Worth, Tx
05/25/2002 Comments:
Was in the 1616th 1961-1962, then reassigned to the 1602nd ATW 1962-1964.
Don't remember many names from that time. We were at the grand opening of the
new NCO club the night Kennedy got shot.
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1616th
Support Sq - MATS
during 1957 -
from Janine Artaud-Hawkins
Click this thumbnail
for a very large view. This photo
is large enough to see
each G.I.'s face. Do
you recognize yourself
or anyone else?
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French-American Parade - 1962 on Rue Victor Hugo
Photo
courtesy of
Jim Hawkins' widow,
Janine Artaud
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Woodrow Hudson (3rd from left
standing) sent this photo and articleof the 1957-58 4th Aerial Port Basketball
Team
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