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Re: Cold War USAFE

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512 or 526 FIS?
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Re: Cold War USAFE

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Frank van Hemert wrote:512 or 526 FIS?
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526th indeed. Very nice!
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tomh wrote:I'll let you do the unit identification on this F-102A, some of you will know it better than I. What do you think?
A very nice picture , Tom ! :wink:
It does remind me of the days when the 32nd FIS at Soesterberg , here in the Netherlands ,was equipped with the Convair (T)F-102A Delta Dagger in the period 1960 to 1969 , although I myself visited the base not earlier than in 1965!
The one on your photo (56-1221) indeed belongs to the 526th FIS "The Black Knights"(USAFE) , which was stationed at Ramstein in Germany at the time. It had the Red-White-Red sunburst on the tail during 1960 to 1963.
By the way , the McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo next to the F-102A in your picture was assigned to the 17th TRS/66 TRW (USAFE), based at Laon in France at the time.
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Koen and Hans,
Thank you for the details. Some of those USAFE "Deuce" squadrons had F-86Ds earlier. Is the 526th one such unit?
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Let's stop this topic from dissearing off the list!

Ramstein Open House, 1986.
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A nice visitor at Wildenrath, 1986.
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Close to the fence at Lakenheath, 1987.
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As this forum (all of our Photo forums, as a matter of fact) is meant to share your (self-made) photos, posts with third-party material and the reactions to them have been split off to this topic: http://forum.scramble.nl/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=71394

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I also have a question concerning posting matters , but I moved it to the About This Forum-topic on second thought . Thank you!
As a bonus a picture of another USAFE fighter : the F-102 Delta Dagger , which I (myself) took at Eindhoven in 1967....

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A year later I took this RF-101C Voodoo at Brustem with a better camera than the one used on my previous post...!

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