Larry Zimnisky

Below are photos and captions sent in by Larry Zimnisky. At the end of the page are some photos of  people we need help identifying. Please send that information to the Web host: LeeMiller@ethi-usmappingmission.com.  

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Larry Zimnisky on Roman ruin.

U-1's on original WAB flight line.

Volleyball game at the Wheelus compound.

Volleyball game at the Wheelus compound.

The Beer Garden opens after the game.

Rommie Mays at the old fort in Tripoli.

The port in Tripoli.

Road crew on the coastal highway. Main east-west route.  East of Tripoli.

Coastal highway near Marble Arch. Rommie Mays breaking out lunch          (c-rations) 

Local farmer.

Driving through Derna.

Libyan water well.

Coast highway climbing up from the Mediterranean to the Cyrinican plateau.

Highway South of Bengazi.

Camp Climax, 1962.

Camp Climax was on an abandoned airstrip from W.W. II

another view

Aircraft fuel truck at Climax.

Hubble with H-23.

Pal doing guard duty, greeting a "stranger" near the camp.

Mail call at camp Climax.

SP/5 Justice, the cook at camp Climax, discusses an old Roman tomb with some local residents.  Hundreds of these dotted the countryside.  All pillaged hundreds of years ago.

Pal, Hubble and unidentified member of the Climax crew.

Larry Zimnisky and "Pal"

One of the problems confronted by those in the field was the safe yet accessible storage of personal items such as shaving gear, cameras and such. A popular solution to this was commandeering an empty wooden fusee box. Built to government standards these boxes could withstand the beating of being transported around by both plane and truck. As well as easily carried around by the rope handles. When I left Libya I took my fusee box and just placed it and it's contents into a trunk and had it shipped home with everything else. At home my father commandeered it and used it to hold tools in the trunk of his car for over ten years. Since then that box has been used to hold various things, usually sitting nondescript on our deck or patio. A little dirty here and there and a little rust on it's hinges but I have it to this day, a little reminder of a youthful adventure. After 45 years it is still in pretty good shape.

U-8 Maintenance

Larry Zimninsky in plaid shirt with two unnamed from the 572nd.

Rommie Mays in black shirt, plus two unnamed.

OTHER PHOTOS FROM LARRY ZIMNISKI:

572nd TOPO AVIATION IN LIBYA - ORIGINAL PHOTO-CLICK FOR VERY LARGE VIEW.

(Fulda Chapter) 572nd TOPO AVIATION IN LIBYA - Newspaper photo with names.

(Ft. Hood Chapter) TOPO AVIATION  - Newspaper photo with names.