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HOSLEY, DAVID L. (CAPTAIN)

Posted 4/14/2009 Printable Fact Sheet

Call No.: K239.512-026 

IRIS No.: 00903758 

IRIS Tape No.: 00903759
 
Accessibility: OPEN 

Pages/Time: 27pp/0:29 

Class: U 

Date/Location: 27 September 1967/Maxwell AFB AL 

Interviewer: Major Harry Shallcross 

Sources: Project CORONA HARVEST Collection
 
Topics: 

(1965-1966) Oral history interview with Captain David Hosley, C-123 navigator with the 311th Air Commando Squadron and later a standardization evaluation navigator in I Corps. Topics included are support to Special Forces and Marines, overwater missions for periodic maintenance, use of navigation aid APN-9, purpose of flare mission, use of T-13 chute method instead of computed air release point, effectiveness of airpower at Tam Ky and A Shau, and recommendation for training C-123 navigators at Hurlburt AFB.







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