There's a name from the past - Frank Kurdyla - I've been trying to remember the names of the guys I knew in MACS-1 in '58 and '59. Just ran into Jack Hyland today at Semper Fi Association lunch in Rochester, NH. Hard to believe it was over 50 years ago! About 40 years ago, I was in the Philippines on contract with the Navy ( tech rep), and remember an article in the Stars and Stripes about Frank, who at the time was an oil company executive living in Japan - his wife was Japanese, and he spoke the language quite fluently as I remember.
Ed AMRICK
09-Feb-2009 16:53
This is the temple we would pass on our way down the hill to Kao Hsiung. I think I have a photo of a nearby walkway lined with a lot of animal statues,
If I remember correctly the temple was sort of a pastel pink in color.
I don't know what possessed me to be using BW film!!
Keigo Obata
07-Feb-2009 19:54
Wish I could've been there. The only contact I had with Taiwan was one day when our ship to Yokosuka, USS Hugh Gaffey, stopped a day in Taiwan to let off some of Chiang Kai Shik"s officers who were training in the US. Who could forget the wives who came to receive them on the dock . . . those Chinese dresses with slits up one side who could make you never forget the song, China Nights. Figlik should've been there . . . he'd know that Kurdyla was right . . . the song ain't about yo-yos! But who cares if Kurdyla was right? I don't! (Guess I'm talking to myself, so I'll stop here)
