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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001
20:38:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael McCormick
Message: Hi Folks, I’m back at it again. A fellow Vet Helicopter
pilot friend contacted me yesterday with a request from his friend
in Oklahoma City. Her Father ((Henry Lee Earp) was an enlisted crew
member with a C-47 Squadron (16th Transport Sq, 64th Transport Gp,)
The unit was in Africa, Sicily, CBI, then Sicily again. Henry is
trying to find old crewmates. The only reference to another
Squadron member I found yesterday was S/SGT Pilot Reo C. Trail –
Author of "Ode to the C-47". BTW, Earp is a shirttail relative of of
Wyatt Earp My Pop was a Crew Chief in the 2nd Troop Carrier Sq.
This week I have traced his Goony Bird (C-47A c/n 6193 USAAF
41-38734, "The Jolly Roger") to Fortaleza, Brazil where it is on
display. Do you have any contacts there? I flew in Vietnam. Thanks
in advance! My Web Page is:
http://www.dconsultants.com/
4 Sept 2002 - Verig has reporterd C-47A
41-38734 at the Verig Facility at Rio in Brazil.
April 25, 2005
As I mentioned, my Father T/Sgt Charles E. McCormick, AF-17019531,
accepted the aircraft into the USAAF inventory at Pope AAF in 1941
and flew in it as crew chief to and in the CBI during his WWII
tour from Feb 1942 through Feb 1945 with the 2nd Troop
Carrier Squadron. My Father died in February, 2005. The aircraft
was last seen at Manaus Brazil some 12-15 years ago and is
reported scrapped. I’m still looking for the data plate for
41-38734 via friends in Brazil.
I also have a picture of 41-38734 flying in formation with Flight
Officer Roy Miller’s C-47 enroute from Pope Field to Florida at
the start of the 2TCS deployment to China in 1942. Colonel Miller
(USAF Retired) resides in Louisiana. An additional picture shows
the forward section of “Jolly Roger” (734) on a ramp in the CBI,
airfield unknown, but most probably Dinjan.
I flew UH-1s and the OH-6A in the Republic of Vietnam in 1968-1969
as an Army CWO with A/123rd Avn. Bn. and careered 21
years in the Regular Army.
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James D. West 