Greetings

I want to thank everyone who participated in this get together of Shipmates from the 1952-1954 era of VP-49 and our PBM5S2 and P5M seaplane years in NAS Bermuda.

In addition a great big thanks goes to Frank Dorsch. He made all of the arrangements for our terrific accommodations in Memphis.

There were many great bits of memorabilia shared at the Reunion. Everyone enjoyed each others photos among other items. There was a lot of time put on identifying Shipmates on the two panoramic photos I had along.

There were some sidetrips taken by some Shipmates and their guests. Most of all I think each of us enjoyed the Reunion of each other and some of our memories of our time in NAS Bermuda and in VP-49. The only thing missing in this Reunion were more of our Shipmates being there.

I do need to apologize to all of my fantastic Shipmates for your patience with min finally getting out this report of our wonderful Reunion. I do believe everyone felt th experience was well worth it. For me, personally it was an experience of a life time!!!

I am including some things that were in our handout packets. I am mailing this to everyone on our current roster as I have updated it. I am missing some e-mail addresses, have some out of date addresses and we are looking for more Shipmates to add to our roster so your help is really sought after and appreciated! Also included in this report is a listing of hundreds of Shipmates we have not been able to locate. We need your help. Please notify us of anyone you know about or if you know of some whdied. It would be most appreciated.

There is information on ordering the panoramic photos taken in NAS Bermuda and now located in the University of Texas. Also included is a printout of the Shipmates we have been identified in the two squadron panoramic pictures, one taken in 1952 and thother in 1954. Here again we need your help to fill in the blank spaces so we can do ou best to identify every shipmate in each of these photos. As you can see many have beeidentified in the 1952 photo but we have many blank spaces in the 1954 photo.

I would encourage those who have photos and scanners to share your photos with all of our Shipmates who have an e-mail address. I am sure they would all be enjoyed, have received some and they are all great so let's share as many as possible with each other.

We need to thank Bob Griffin and the VP-49 Woodpecker Association for the $300 dollar seed money to get us started, some of it is in printing and sending this report out.

There is come interest and thought about having another squadron Reunion in 2004. Some possible sites would be Norfolk, Jacksonville and some have even mentioned NAS Bermuda. No plans have been made, just a few thoughts and dreams float around.

Thanks,

Ken Nyland

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Reunion Photo's

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Shipmate Memories

VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Cover Page - PDF Files
VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Pages 2 through 4 196KB
VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Pages 5 through 8 585KB
VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Pages 9 through 12 210KB
VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Pages 13 through 17 295KB
VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Pages 18 through 21 395KB
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VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Pages 22 through 25 180KB
VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Pages 26 through 29 185KB
VP-49 Memories 1952 - 1955 Pages 30 through 33 274KB

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Shipmate Roster

Greetings Shipmates,

Here is a compilation of enlisted Shipmates who were in the squadron during our 1952 - 1954 era that we are working on. It is not complete as I have not had time to compile the 1954-55 microfilm that I have so there will be more names in the future.

The reason for this handout is to afford each of you an opportunity to help us try and locate as many of these Shipmates as possible, or to learn as much about them as possible. We know that some will be deceased and if we had that information we could take them off of the list of Shipmates we are looking for.

If you can help please notify me either by e-mail or a letter. I can be reached at avcmkn@tds.net.

Thank you very much for your interest and help. We would like to have another Reunion if possible in a couple of years with many of these Shipmates being able to join us.

Respectfully,

Ken Nyland

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