A site for those brave, dedicated airmen of the 515th Air Force Band who played on for the glory of their country and for the rights of free peoples across the globe while fighting off scorpions, tarantulas and oppressive heat and humidity in the vicious Texas campaign of the Korean War.

Proof of their vigilance lies in the fact that no North Korean MIG ever made it past Bryan AFB.

 

 

 

 

 

Clarinets:  Cacho, Messmer, Mendeke

Saxes: Bell, Farrow, Warren, Zurbuchen, Hoggard

Flute: Anderson     Oboe: Duncan Bassoon:  Howe      Baritones:  Green,  Daniels

Trumpets: Phelps , Camp, Coker, McDonald, Fletcher, Salinas, Willien

Leader: Roussman

Tubas: Lawyer , Walls, Key      French Horns: Surret, Bilhartz   
 
Trombones: Fisher, Bowen, Murphy

Percussion: Henke, Saunders

Missing from this picture: Jones, Woell, Gryce, Moncure, Byers, Allison, Bradford, Bray and ?????

In Memoriam:  Bill Coker, 2008

 

CONTACTS

Fisher - jazzdude (at) atticgamez.com
Murphy - charmur_33 (at) yahoo.com
Hoggard - ghoggard (at) kvnet.org
Henke - pauken1 (at) webtv.net
Willien - MilkStool (at) aol.com
Howe - jobilthowe (at) comcast.com
Anderson - jimmb (at) q.com
Tom Bray - soundex (at) optimum.net
Bilhartz - herbert (at) festmusik.com

 

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Update March 17, 2012