{"id":3380,"date":"2012-05-14T12:45:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fitzvideo.com\/sky_surfing\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2012-05-14T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:54:04","slug":"memories-of-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/2012\/05\/14\/memories-of-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of a Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is what is left of the article I referenced that was in my scrapbook as a kid.<\/p>\n

You can see that the first part of the article has been destroyed but the meat of the<\/p>\n

article is intact.<\/p>\n

I spend two years on Guam as part of my father’s deployment from 1963-1965. I was<\/p>\n

10-12 years old during that time. It was pretty interesting time. Anderson AFB<\/p>\n

at that time was NOT the same as that which was used during WWII. Our base was situated<\/p>\n

to the east of the WWI site. On afternoon the family took of the explore the runways<\/p>\n

of the old base. We found our way in and my dad drove as fast as he could muster our<\/p>\n

station wagon up and down the runways. It was pretty cool until we noticed we were running<\/p>\n

low on fuel. Then the real fun began as we tried to locate the place we entered. Being in the<\/p>\n

jungle all things seemed the same. During our stay on Guam the military were running<\/p>\n

numerous B-52 missions to Vietnam. I remember seeing guards on top of the roof of the<\/p>\n

indoor theatre (Mehan) for \u00a0briefing of our crews.<\/p>\n

There were three theatres on base. Two were open air like todays drive in with cement benches.<\/p>\n

The Superfort and Skyview, with the closed in theatre being the Mehan.<\/p>\n

Another glimpse of a U-2 was noted on the runway during this time.<\/p>\n

Guam is \u00a0a small Pacific Islands only 30 miles long and 4-8 miles wide and is part of the<\/p>\n

Marianas Islands. Extensive WWII activity took place of most of the island.<\/p>\n

All of us kids had plywood board used to mount the numerous small and\u00a0 large<\/p>\n

caliper spend casing readily found in the jungle and along major roads. There was a<\/p>\n

standard warning on the island about finding live munitions. It was told to us that from<\/p>\n

time to time locals would save grenades and other small arms, which later unexpectedly<\/p>\n

detonated injuring and killing the collector.<\/p>\n

Definitely an experience as a young kid that will not be forgotten.<\/p>\n

Ken LeBlanc<\/p>\n

Here is most of the article:<\/p>\n

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Here is what is left of the cover I had made:<\/p>\n

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Here is what is left of the article I referenced that was in my scrapbook as a kid. You can see that the first part of the article has been destroyed but the meat of the article is intact. I spend two years on Guam as part of my father’s deployment from 1963-1965. I was […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antique-or-classic","category-military","category-show-an-airplane","category-uncategorized","category-9-id","category-18-id","category-5-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzvideo.com\/skysurfing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}