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Photo of Marin Headlands and Golden Gate Bridge entering San Francisco Bay from Korea |
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Checked out the link (to Freeman Bradford's rotating home scrapbook) and
found a lot of pictures up until pgs 15-17 which were basically blank (No
Pictures?). I looked at the ones from Inchon because I only went to
that area once, and that was to drop of my friend SFC Frank Conger as he
started his rotation trip home. Somebody pulled a few strings for him
because he flew home! He deserved every perk he could get. When
he got to Travis AFB he was able to call my mother, which pleased her no
end.
When I rotated a few weeks later (Mar 1954) I got a "lovely" train ride to Pusan, a day or two in a replacement company there and then onto the General Gordon for a non-stop cruise to San Francisco. As I recall we had our first meal on the ship before she even left the dock. They served steak and they even had real 'Marin Dell' milk in small cartons. San Rafael was my home town. I had grown up in the Bay Area. It was quite a punch in the gut to sail under that big orange bridge on a bright sunny morning! Fittingly enough the dreary January day in 1953 when I left was very gray with a miserable drizzle as we passed under the bridge. I looked up and could see the headlights of cars headed north. I remember thinking that those SOBs would be in my home town in a few minutes and I didn't know if I would ever see it again! |
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