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Hometown: Silverton, Oregon Unit at Loring: 42 A&E First day at Loring: It was Limestone then. I got to Caribou on a Bangor and Aroostock milk train with wooden seats. It stopped at every farm to pick up and drop off milk cans. When I arrived, someone asked me where I was from. When I said Oregon, he jibed, "Oh the Boondocks... Boondock Harry! From then on, I was known as "Boondock Harry" Harry Wahlster. My name is not Harry, it just stuck while I was in the service, so I bet no one could find me if they were looking. Most memorable experience: Several stories. *Trips to Canada: Quebec City-- revisited last year. New Brunswick 'sugaring off' party pouring maple syrup in the snow. *Six buddies (not I) shared ownership in a funk airplane. One was John Morrell. He liked to hand me the controls, then make the plane do goofy things. Thanks, John. *A bunch of us went hunting. I was alone when a huge bull moose came snorting through the woods. All I had was a 22. I stood VERY still and very close to the other side of a tree... for a very long time, until he rambled away to get drink from the stream. * I went with the B36 mission to Upper Heyford Air Base in England in 1956-7 (Nov-January) because of the Hungarian Uprising. On the way to England, somewhere over Greenland (where you have only about a second to live) I was cooking a steak on the stove in the plane and splattered grease on the captain's parachute. He informed me that was now my parachute. Last Day at Loring: Let's go! My friend Randy Brant and I and 2 others were going to West Virginia. Randy was going on leave and I was going work for Randy's dad building a Kaiser Aluminum plant.
What did you do after Loring: A lot of different things. After the construction job in West Virginia, I surveyed for the toll road in Chicago. Warehousing, house inspections. If you agree, people can contact you at (email):mscingram@gmail.com |