By Ken Hackman
The drive for old equipment is renewed with the new year.
We have received some wonderful items to include in our museum exhibits at the March Air Museum and the Norton Museum.
BUT!!! We still need more! We need more “tools of our trade” that accurately depict the variety and diversity of our mission and prepare to display in Texas and possibly other locations.
If you have items, and your not sure they are something we would want, send an email to Ken Hackman, kenhackman@att.net and he will let you know if your item/s is something we can use. Send items to Ken Hackman, 3940 Sunswept Drive, Studio City, CA 91604 who will catalog the donations and then get them to Jose Lopez who is our museum curator.
We still need mopic cameras used during Korea and Vietnam and into the late 90s.
We need video cameras, the type use in service, to represent the video shooters.
We also need medium format cameras to represent the move between 4×5 and 35mm. Specifically looking for a Graflex XL w/rangefinder and a Rapid Omega 200. We got some backs and lenses for these cameras; and they were actually used by Combat Camera.
Does anyone know what are they using now: both Still and Video?
i was a still photog and lab chief of the det. 11, 1369 avs at mcchord from ’74 thru ’79. ken visited the lab several times during that time frame. he encouraged my budding career. i got a litho. F106- northern sentries and won a second place in color… during that time i was assigned to the combat control team stationed at mcchord by the WG/CC. i spent several years following them on the exploits. when the lab closed in ’79, i was invited to move to Vandenberg to the 1369th and to Norton to AAVS/HQ to continue. for personal reasons i had to decline. hello to those who remember me…