A website for those who served/are serving in Combat Camera, AAVS, 600th Photo Sq. and 601st Photo Flt.
Garfield Fred Jones was born in Michigan on May 20, 1927. His parents were Garfield Hartley and Millicent Jones. His grandfather given name was also Garfield. Like Fred they all used their middle name as their given name. His parents were Canadian and lived in Canada their entire lives. In 1927 during an extended visit Read More …
By Ken Hackman Darryl Gordon Winters, an Air Force motion picture photographer assigned to the Aerospace Audiovisual Service (AAVS), was killed in action on July 19, 1966, while filming a combat strike against Viet Cong guerrilla positions from a F-100F Super Sabre fighter south of Saigon, South Vietnam. Darryl was born in Stanislaw County, California Read More …
by Ken Hackman What’s their story? I wonder what my Mother, Dad, Brother, Sister did in their life. What about all the friends you made while serving in the military? I wonder what their story is. As a certified “old” man I have a lot of time to think and question. I’ve met some pretty Read More …
A look at the life and career of our leader, Ken Hackman, also known as the Godfather! Settle back and take yourself on a journey through his life! Hackman-Revised-CC-Profile
I was born in Portland, Oregon on 22 August 1930 simply because that was the nearest hospital from where my parents were working in a lumber camp across the Columbia River in Washington State. The only way in and out of the big camp was by train which hauled the huge logs out.
by Ken Hackman My friend Doug Wood would have been a perfect subject for the Readers Digest column; “The Most Unforgettable Character I have ever met”. A native Californian, he was born on December 4, 1922 in Long Beach, CA. His parents were Charles Orson Wood, a butcher, born in New York and Grace May Read More …
By Ken Hackman We have added a new section here on our website called Stories at usafcombatcamera.org. What and Why are PROFILES? I will address the WHY first: I personally have known and worked with many fellow combat camera people whose accomplishments in APS/APCS/AAVS and AirCCS are notable and should be documented and not fade Read More …
Born in 1934 in Richland Center, Wisconsin James “Jim” DeElton Elmer recalls hearing about the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Standing outdoors waiting for his second sister to be born he heard a “boom, boom, boom” and thought they were being attacked by the Japanese. He feels this may have unconsciously influenced his later Read More …