Jim Burns C-124 Tale

The C-124 was pulled out of the mud by a couple of local Thai CAT drivers (I think they were D-8's, but I'm not positive of this), that we hired to pull it up onto the ramp. After we got it moved to the ramp ... we started lobbying for it to be scrapped .... we thought it would make a good club house!! But alas, the AF sent some crews in from it's home base (Hickam AFB, HI) to repair it. It was still there when my TDY ended in Nov. 64, but I heard that they flew it out shortly after I had left. A little side note that I always saw as BS, was that the unit that owned this C-124 (don't remember their number right now...but it's on the nose gear door in one of the pictures) had flown some um--teen gazillion hours accident free. I kinda thought this would end their record .... but they got is classified as an incident ... and kept their record going .... sure looked like an accident the me!!
(Jim Burns)