Hurricane hunters?

My dad has a ton of C-46 time. He was in a troop carrier squadron based out of
Tachikawa, Japan during the Korean War until 1955.

Give him my regards!

I was flying them at the same time, but never got to Japan or Korea. I
guess the Commandant of the Marine Corps decided the situation there
was not so desperate that they needed the likes of me over there.

(I guess you can tell from my calling it an R5C that I was not in the
Air Force.)

Although there weren't as many of them as of the Gooney Birds, I
occasionally encounter another R5C - C-46 pilot.

A good friend of mine flew them over the Hump into China during WW II,
and one of the staff pilots here at UNV flew them too, though I don't
know where.

Half the R5Cs in our squadron were bare metal, the other half were
painted navy blue. But where the blue was worn off, there was brown
paint underneath. I guess they were flown by the Air Force (or Air
Corps) before they were discarded and given to the Marines.

vince norris