Ethiopia - United States Mapping Mission

TOPOGRAPHIC TRAINING TEAM--IRAN

Joint Operation Graphics (Aviation JOG's) prepared by Army Map Service using the data collected by the U.S.Army-Corps of Engineers-Topographic Training Team can be viewed (at no charge) at the University of Texas Library (online). Click Here. (Information provided by Bill Phillipson).

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Please send in any additional names and pictures you wish posted on this page to LeeMiller@ethi-usmappingmission.com

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Colonel Daniel Hritzko, Commanding, 64th Engr Bn (Base Topo) AMS Special Foreign Activity.

(Anyone who knew Col. or Mrs. Hritzko please contact Web Host)

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Maj. Teague, Commanding, 64th Engr Bn (Base Topo) AMS Special Foreign Activity. (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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Maj. Edwin J. Bannister, Commanding, 64th Engr Bn (Base Topo) AMS Special Foreign Activity. (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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LTC Everett A. Smith, Commanding, 64th Engr Bn (Base Topo) AMS Special Foreign Activity. (additional information as of yet unavailable).

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Mr. Winston (Winnie) Davis was Chief of the Office of Military Operations - Army Map Service -Washington, D.C. (Photo taken in Ethiopia) All civilian pilots who flew for the various mapping projects reported to Mr. Davis in Washington, D.C.

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Maj. Marion H. Krueger Adjutant (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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Maj. William Sprinsky (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Death Notice

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Cpt. Richard R. McDade (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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Cpt. Canatsey (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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1LT Calvin C.W. Choy (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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1LT James D. Meihaus - Adjutant (Photo as yet unavailable)

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1LT. Cunningham - Assistant Adjutant.

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LT Brock (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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LT. Pressner 1966 - 1967 (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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Lt. Sprea Supply Officer (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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2LT Rene A. Valenzuela (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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CWO Glenn Nyus (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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CWO Von E. Gates (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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CWO James Harnden (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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E-7 Wilson G. Freeze digging out a truck somewhere in Iran.

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E-6 Fred Keech was transfered in 1963 from Topographic Training Team-Iran to Ethiopia-United States Mapping Mission where he, Col. Sherman and Sgt. Martin Wilkerson were the first three to arrive in Ethiopia with Mapping Mission.

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MSGT C. William (Bill) Locke was with TTT in Iran from Feb. 70 to Dec. 70 and was one of the last to leave. Bill writes: "Best tour in 30 year career (Thailand close second). COL (then MAJ) Bill Sprinsky picked me up at Maribad and I laid him to rest at Arlington, Feb. 2009 - RIP".

Click these Links to see Bill's photos on his Personal Page and read his remembrances on his "Stories and Memories" page.

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MSGT Wilbert Lunsford

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Sam Wilkerson (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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Mike Linville 67-69 (Photo and additional information as of yet unavailable)

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SFC Robert Mays (Photo and additional information as of yet unavailable)

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SP5 William D. Mengers July 1968 - Sept. 1969 (Photograph and more info to soon follow)

I was stationed in Iran between July 1968 and September 1969. My first assignment as a surveyor was as a levels recorder for party chief/instrument man Don Libeau. We worked out of Mashed during the warm months. Don and I took a trip to the Caspian Sea area for some type of recon during the winter of 1969 and then I took another trip to Bander Abbas in the winter with a group of guys including Duke Anthony, Mike Linville, Rich Sewell and others to tie in some bench marks to a tide guage on the outskirts of town. In the warm months of 1969 until I left to return to the states in September I worked as a party chief/instrument man out of the Mashed base camp. Although I would rather have been other places during the time I was in Iran, I have many fond memories of the places I traveled and the people I met and worked with.

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Clyde Moore was in Iran from Sept. 1962 to Oct. 1964. His assignments were primarily "classification" with U.S. Army Map Service reps from the USA and Iranian military from southern to northern Iran.

(Photo as yet unavailable)

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Jim Wheat 67-69 (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SSG Marvin Yell (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SP5 Ronald A. Zarnik Aug. 1968 - Jan. 1971 (Photo as yet unavailable)

Ron writes: "I was in Iran from August 1968 to January 1971 when I ETS out of the Army in Tehran. Topo Training was closing down in the summer of that year. I was the last MAP Compiler to be sent there from Ft. Belvoir, Va (MOS 81D20) as only surveyors were being sent there...I was the Company Draftman and Mail Clerk in ADMIN under Major Sprinsky and later LT. Choy."

CPT George A. Jacob Click Here to see George's photo page.

Click these links to the IRAN SURVEY PROJECT and George A. Jacob Web pages for historic information concerning the USA's efforts in the mapping of Iran.

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SP6 Troy D. Carpenter Click Here to see Troy's photo page.

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Stuart "Reb" Davis 1963-65 Reb was with Level 1 and then recon from Kerman, and then Jask.

(photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SP4 James F. Graebner (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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Mr. John Javahar (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

SP5 Jim Kirschenman

SP4 Dennis Kobus (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

SP4 Lallemand (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

SP5 Pilon (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

SP4 Wayne Reich (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

John Ricard 1963-1965. Click Here to see John's photo page.

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SP5 Charles A. Walek (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SP5 Richard Whittington July 1969 - Dec. 1970 (photo as of yet unavailable)

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SP4 Robert W. Yeagle (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SSG Ralph Davis (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SP-5 Jerome (Jerry) Bradley 1967

SSG Farley (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SSG Meridith "Duke" Anthony (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SPC Russell Butler (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

SP5 Phil Damon (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Del Delaney - 1965-1966 (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable)

SP5 Donald R. Libeau (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

E5 Louie Munch July 1963 - June 1965. Louie was a Topograhic surveyor and member of Level 3 (call sign: Lightning) who arrived in Iran July 1963 after spending 5 months at Wheelus in Libya.

(photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

SP5 Thomas Stratton (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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John Ricard (photo as of yet unavailable)

In 1963 I was part of the Topographic Training Team sent to Iran
through Tripoli Libya from Fort Belvoir. I spent two years mapping the
southern half of Iran with two field groups of 7 US Army personnel. My group
was called Lubber and the other was Blackjack. When I was ill, the single engine
Otter you have pictured flew me out of our basecamp in southern Iran up to Teheran.
Lots of memories. Several of our people in 1963 were sent from Libya to Ethiopia. Five of us were sent to Iran. AMS personnel Richard Glispin , Dennis Dillon, Robert Conrad,
and Sam Wilkerson.

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Robert Conrad (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Dennis Dillon (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Richard Glispin (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Sam Wilkerson (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

George Williams (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SGT Clouse (spelling unsure) (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

E-5 Raymond "Joe" Palmer was a radio operator for Ampere and Blackjack from 1964 - Jan. 1965.

Gareth "Gary" Rhodes
Gareth Rhodes was re-assigned to the Topo House in 1963 after a short stint in Tripoli, Libya and was the field radio repairman for Tehran "Ampere" and Base Camps: Blackjack, Lubber, Lightning, and Longhorn.

Gary writes: As the radio operator of Ampere, we had communications with Blackjack (base camp), Longhorn, Lubber, and Lightning (field camps). Also, there were Little Eagle, the chopper, Cadillac the fixed wing twin engine, and we had the single engine Otter - its call sign has slipped my memory bank. When I first got to Tehran, base camp was set up in Zahedan, and that was my first visit to Blackjack. Even though I spent most of my tour in Tehran, I made trips to Kerman, Lubber, Lightning, and Longhorn. During my visits, these field camps were in the south west area of Iran, in an around Ahwaz.

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SP5 Jim Suszko 1962-1964

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Jerry Stewart (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Bob Idom (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SSG Jack Estep (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

SGT. Joe Anderson (photo as of yet available)

PFC Al Recknall

Please meet miss Anne Quinn. These were taken at the airport the day
I left, 1969.

PS: notice on my shoulder the topo joe pins!!..you can
just make them out.

(Click Photo for larger view)

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SP4 Ben Hooper (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SP5 Bruce Bright (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable)

John C. Doyle started as cook with the TTT in Iran in 1963/64 and then went to communications in May 1965. John retired from the U.S. Army as CWO3 in 1983.

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Mr. Aubry Sapp (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Mr. Sonny Lanham (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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SP5 Burt Ebert (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Bill Bauersfeld (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

(Need more information)

SP4 Ernie Dygert (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Jensen (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Alemeda (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Lackey (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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Nemad (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Oscar (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

Hodgi (photo and additional information as of yet unavailable).

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A detailed account of Troy Carpenter's duty in Iran can be viewed by clicking the sub-tab titled 'Troy Carpenter' (on the left of this page) or CLICK HERE

FOR A DOWNLOADABLE VERSION CLICK HERE

SP6 Troy D. Carpenter

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A detailed account of Wilson Freeze's duty in Iran can be viewed by clicking the sub-tab titled 'Wilson Freeze' (on the left of this page) or CLICK HERE

E-7 Wilson G. Freeze (digging out a truck after a flash flood.) To view a PowerPoint* slide presentation of Mr. Freeze's photographs CLICK HERE

* Microsoft's PowerPoint Viewer is available free of charge. To download a copy CLICK HERE and follow the Download Instructions.

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George A. Jacob Click Here to read more about George Jacob.

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