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Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365

MCAF Futema, Okinawa, 1965
The Magnificent Flying Circus
aka Koler's Klowns


Type in a last name of a squadron member to locate him in the photos below. Last update: 2/5/01


Note: Please help me in identifying yourself and others in the photographs below......del Rosario...marinehelicopters@lycos.com

Front row (kneeling, left to right): PFC Luis A. Torres Jr., Sgt David L. Kolek, Pvt Arlen L. Thetford, Cpl Bruce W. Dorn, Cpl John G. Duncan Jr., LCpl Bert L. Goodfallow, Sgt James D. Logan (holding guidon)
Second row (standing): Squadron 1stSgt Howard G. Force, 1stLt Peter M. Mack, 1stLt Martin, 1stLt Eugene E. Rainville, 1stLt Richard H. Wheeler, 1stLt Harold H. Meyer, Capt Billy F. Conner, Capt Michael Barkovich, Capt John R. Eilertson, Maj Everett L. Malmgren, HMM-365 Commanding Officer - LtCol Joseph Koler, Jr.
Third row: 1stLt Robert L. West, SSgt Rudolfo Escotto, GySgt Morris R. Williams, Sgt Jerry T. Ray, 1stLt Norbert J. Chilewski, 1stLt Bonner G. Lane, 1stLt A.D. Hamilton, GySgt Michael J. Caruselle, SSgt John J. Easter, 1stLt Hal T. Barraclough, 1stLt Richard P. Stack
Fourth row: SSgt Richard E. Davis, 1stLt Rudolph H. Fahrner, SSgt Jack H.F. Williams, 1stLt Harry F. Clemence, 1stLt Charles Monch, SSgt Thomas H. Jones, SSgt David L. Guffey, SSgt James M. Boone Jr., 1stLt John W. McEwen, 1stLt Edward D. Rudolfs, 1stLt Henry Heinzerling
Fifth row: Pvt Pedro F. Quintero, Pvt Martin J. Depersig, LCpl Enrique B. del Rosario, LCpl Martin L. Winkel, LCpl David Hernandez, LCpl Kenneth L. Balmer, Cpl Pedro Marquez, 8, SSgt Lawrence D. Rathbun
Sixth row: Sgt W. D. Jordan Jr., 2, 3, Cpl Francis J. Mayher, 5, LCpl Leonard J. Szusczewics, 7, Cpl Brian M. Benedict, LCpl Charles McKinney, 10, 11, LCpl Basil Atad
Seventh row: PFC William D. Schuldheisz, 2, 3, PFC C. L. Hoskins, 5, Cpl Stanley N. Grisham, LCpl Raymond W. Minifie, Cpl Larry R. Hust, PFC Lou Paradise, 10, 11
Eighth row: LCpl Denis V. Cooper, Sgt Richard Kunch, LCpl Robert N. Schuster, 4, PFC Mariano Aguirre, 6, 7, PFC Keith C. Fick, 9, Cpl Michael R. Layman, Cpl Gerald C. Mayne
Ninth row: Cpl Howard W. Giberson, LCpl James L. Curtis, Sgt Donald E. Crandall, Cpl Larry L. Butts, Cpl James E. Hallford, LCpl Norbert Popkowski, Sgt Jerry T. Ray, 8, Sgt John C. "Pappy" Allsbury, Cpl Michael C. Buchanan, 11, Sgt George E. Russell Jr., PFC James A. Stewart, Cpl David E. Kelly, PFC Jeffrey R. Aveiro, PFC John J. Falkowski


Front row (kneeling, left to right): LCpl Leslie A. Hofer, Cpl Jeffrey C. Lavay, PFC Harry G. Deschane, PFC R. Lopez, PFC Trinidad Cuevas, PFC Rex F. Traughber
Second row (standing): LtCol Koler, Maj Simon J. Kittler, Capt Arthur A. Dittmeier, Capt John C. Williamson, Capt Robert J. Reno, 1stLt Koletty, 1stLt Robert J. Wilson, 1stLt Ronald E. Pettis, 1stLt Allen E. Cates, 1stLt Robert Harlan, 1stLt John F. Cronin
Third row: 1, 1stLt Richard Stack, GySgt Keith R. Brown, 1stLt Robert B. McEachran, SSgt Harry C. Barton, 1stLt Thomas V. Brennan, 1stLt Archibald L. Finney III, WO Frank B. Ball, 1stLt Louis B. Montgomery, 1stLt John R. Jacobs
Fourth row: 1stLt Henry W. Heinzerling, 1stLt Charles J. Swan, GySgt Haskell D. Sanders, CWO-2 William Barber, 1stLt Nick J. Werve, GySgt William R. Ebert, MSgt Edward F. McIntyre, 1stLt Thomas C. Byall, SSgt Joseph Suplita, Jr. , 1stLt Richard R. Bender, Cpl Gary W. Bisplinghoff
Fifth row: 1, 2, Cpl Ramando R. Sanchez, Cpl Larry O. Ruettiger, 5, 6, 7, Cpl Rodger W. Lacy, Sgt Marcelo Gonzales Jr., Sgt Ted S. Kuczero, PFC Daniel M. Watson
Sixth row: LCpl Basil Atad, LCpl Frank Bermudez, LCpl William Bloomfield, LCpl Michael J. O'Neill, Cpl Carlos Moreaux, Cpl Wilder F. Curtiss, LCpl Don W. Hare, LCpl Luther H. Cowden, LCpl George W. McKee, SSgt Isaac D. Maze, Cpl Gary Bingham
Seventh row: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, LCpl Larry Alm, 9, Sgt Paul Maynard, 11
Eighth row: 1, 2, Cpl Dale Saunders, Sgt Robert L. Frye, 5, 6, Cpl Glenn H. Turley, Cpl Robert S. Hrustyk, PFC Louis J. Madden, Sgt Elbert D. Holloway, LCpl Harrison H. Chesbrough
Ninth row: PFC Jeffrey Aveiro, PFC John J. Falkowski, PFC Beatriz Gonzales, LCpl John L. Sivils, LCpl Paul F. Kurz, Sgt Robert Androlevich, Sgt Gilbert Harmon, Cpl William Powell, 9, 10, LCpl Billo M. Comola, 12, LCpl Reginal K. Wise, LCpl Glen A. Newton


Aguirre: top 8-5
Allsbury: top 9-9
Alm: bot 7-8
Androlevich: bot 9-6
Atad: top 6-12, bot 6-1
Aveiro: top 9-15, bot 9-1

Ball: bot 3-9
Balmer: top 5-6
Barber: bot 4-4
Barkovich: top 2-8
Barraclough: top 3-10
Barton: bot 3-5
Bender: bot 4-10
Benedict: top 6-8
Bermudez: bot 6-2
Bingham: bot 6-11
Bisplinghoff: bot 4-11
Bloomfield: bot 6-3
Boone: top 4-8
Brennan: bot 3-6
Brown, K.: bot 3-3
Buchanan: top 9-10
Butts: top 9-4
Byall: bot 4-8

Caruselle: top 3-8
Cates: bot 2-9
Clemence: top 4-4
Chesbrough: bot 8-11
Chilewski: top 3-5
Comola: bot 9-11
Conner: top 2-7
Cooper: top 8-1
Cowden: bot 6-8
Crandall: top 9-3
Cronin: bot 2-11
Cuevas: bot 1-5
Curtess, W.F.: bot 6-6
Curtis: top 9-2

Davis: top 4-1
del Rosario: top 5-3
Depersig: top 5-2
Dorn: top 1-4
Deschane: bot 1-3
Dittmeier: bot 2-3
Duncan: top 1-5


Easter: top 3-9
Ebert: bot 4-6
Eilertson: top 2-9
Escotto: top 3-2

Fahrner: top 4-2
Falkowski: top 9-16, bot 9-2
Fick: top 8-8
Finney: bot 3-11
Force: top 2-1
Frye, R.L.: bot 8-4

Giberson: top 9-1
Goodfallow: top 1-6
Gonzales, B.: bot 9-3
Gonzales, M.: bot 5-9
Grisham: top 7-6
Guffey: top 4-7

Hallford: top 9-5
Hamilton: top 3-7
Hare: bot 6-7
Harlan: bot 2-10
Harmon: bot 9-7
Heinzerling: bot 4-1
Hernandez: top 5-5
Hofer: bot 1-1
Holloway: bottom 8-10
Hoskins: top 7-4
Hrustyk: bottom 8-8
Hust: top 7-8

Jacobs: bot 3-11
Jones: top 4-6
Jordan: top 6-1

Kelly: top 9-14
Kittler: bot 2-2
Kolek: top 1-2
Koler: top 2-11, bot 2-1
Koletty: bot 2-6
Kuczero: bot 5-10
Kunch: top 8-2
Kurz: bot 9-5

Lacy: bot 5-8
Lane: top 3-6
Lavay: bot 1-2
Layman: top 8-10
Logan: top 1-7
Lopez: bot 1-4

Mack: top 2-2
Madden: bottom 8-9
Malmgren: top 2-10
Marquez: top 5-7
Martin: top 2-3
Mayher: top 6-4
Maynard: bot 7-10
Mayne: top 8-11
Maze: bot 6-10
McEachran: bot 3-4
McEwen: top 4-9
McIntyre: bot 4-7
McKee: bot 6-9
McKinney: top 6-9
Meyer: top 2-6
Minifie: top 7-7
Monch: top 4-5
Montgomery: bot 3-10
Moreaux: bot 6-5

Newton: bot 9-14

O'Neill: bot 6-4

Paradise: top 7-9
Pettis: bot 2-8
Popkowski: top 9-6
Powell: bot 9-8

Quintero: top 5-1

Rainville: top 2-4
Rathbun: top 5-9
Ray: top 9-7
Reno: bot 2-5
Rudolfs: top 4-10
Ruettiger: bot 5-4
Russell: top 9-12

Sanchez: bot 5-3
Sanders, H.D.: bot 4-3
Saunders: bot 8-3
Schuldheisz: top 7-1
Schuster: top 8-3
Sivils: bot 9-4
Stack: top 3-11, bot 3-2
Stewart: top 9-13
Suplita: bot 4-9
Swan: bot 4-2
Szusczewics: top 6-6

Thetford: top 1-3
Torres: top 1-1
Traughber: bot 1-6
Turley: bot 8-7

Watson: bot 5-11
Werve: bot 4-5
West: top 3-1
Wheeler: top 2-6
Williams, J.H.F.: top 4-3
Williams, M.R.: top 3-3
Williamson: bot 2-4
Wilson: bot 2-7
Winkel: top 5-4
Wise: bot 9-13


Here's a different photo sent by George McKee that's clearer and we are all at PARADE REST, and smiling. I'll eventually replace the top photos with the two below.





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