During 1955, the Navy's heretofore covert P4M-1Q airborne electronic
intelligence activities were consolidated organizationally and commissioned
as bona fide aircraft squadrons - VQ-1 on 1 June and VQ-2 on 1 September
1955. (The antecedent Communications Units and Airborne Early Warning
Squadron detachments were dissolved and combined in the new units.)

A group of us who were "Plankowners" - present at the commissioning - of one
or the other of the two squadrons have been in touch with one another and we
are engaged in locating and contacting as many other plankowners as we can
with the intention of making some kind of a presentation to the two
squadrons in recognition in 2005 of their half-century history.

We have - through personal contacts, Association membership rosters and live
sightings - managed to locate about fifty officer and enlisted from both
squadrons and we are now searching for the rest of the crowd. The current
Holy Grail is the Squadron Log for the commissioning days, and we're in
contact with the Modern Military Branch of the National Archives and Records
Administration in an attempt to track them down but I'm afraid that just ain
't going to work. I was in about five or six aviation commands and I never
heard of the Squadron Logs being treated with the sanctity or gravity the
Ships Logs I used to have to sign each month when I drove the gray things
around.

So two requests....anybody out there a P4M-1Q driver who's not on our list
(you'd know if you were) and any suggestions (BuPers?) as to where I can
find two almost 50 year of Squadron logs? Thanks in advance!