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All photos on this page were submitted by Don Dean. Don arrived in Korea in October 1953 and was attached to the 942nd Forward Air Control Squadron as a radio operator. When the 942nd was demobilized in the early spring of 54 Don was assigned to the 6147th Air Base Squadron Base Communications as a radio operator to complete his tour in Korea.

If anyone has photos or some information that can be used on the web site and you are willing to share please



Orderly Rooms, mess hall, Medic area and the water tower. The water tower collapsed sometime in 1954 and destroyed a Korean laundry when it collapsed.





Sunset between tent rows. Men playing horseshoes. Orderly Room in background.





Don Dean with houseboy standing in front of tent #40. Don's home away from home.





Don Dean wearing 6147th Base Comm jacket designed by Gunnar Willgreen who worked asa radio mechanic. Who now lives in Texas.





Back side of 6147th ABS Base Comm jacket.





Another view of tent area outside tent #40. Don Dean's tent.





Don Dean standing near 6147th Base Comm Radio vans where he worked.





6147th Air Base Comm radio vans with Unnecessary Mountain in the background.





6147th Base Comm personnel. Left to right, Gunnar Willgreen, James R. McCollum and John King.





Let to right. Air Base Squadron Orderly Room, Base Theatre, Base Chapel.





6147th Tactical Control Group Heedquarters, K-47.





Airman's Club with Unnecessary Mountain in background at K-47. Chunchon.





Chunchon children, taken just outside main gate of K-47.





Kimchi pot store in Chunchon, Korea.





Chunchon jewelry store.





Chunchon Bus Depot and Monument Square.





Honey bucket wagon and bus depot in Chunchon, Korea.





An open air market in Chunchon.





Unnecessary Mountain in the background. The market used to be in this area, but it burned down one night in 1954.This photo was taken not lo0ng afterwards. S/Sgt Proctor and John King.





Looking down at K-47 from a top Unnecessary Mountain.





Han River bridge looking north from a top Unnecessary Mountain.





Looking down at the Han River from the north side of Unnecessary Mountain. S/Sgt McCollum is in the foreground. A large Army truck is being washed in the river in the centerof the photo. Gives you a little idea of the height.





GOING HOME. Getting ready to board this Chinese Air Transport plane to head back to the states from K-47.





The 942nd Forward Air Control Squadron radio van. This van sat in the back of a truck behind the 942nd Headquarters.





Chunchon Fire Department





The shell of a bombed ammunition building in Chunchon.





Overlooking the Chunchon market area before the fire.





Marilyn Monroe during her performance at K-47.





Remember the funny money that we received when we were in Korea? Here's a sample, Good old (MPC) Military Payment Certificates.





Here is what is left of the market area in Chunchon after the fire. According to estimates, 500 homes were destroyed, 3000 homeless.





Overlooking a part of Chunchon in foreground and K-47 in the background. Taken from Cherry Hill.





Unmecessary Mountain taken from Chunchon





Don Dean in front of theatre at K-47





Looking north from atop Unnecessary Mountain.





6x6 Used for trips to the mountains.





Don Dean with interpreter/houseboy Papa-San





Don Dean and Don Anderson (As expected, aircraft crashed on first flight)





Niles R.Clark-Radio Operator





Floyd French and Edward Levene on K-47





Melvin Halprin-Radio Operator





Left to right: Charles "Chuck" Morrill, Jim Sulfridge, John King, Donald Anderson and Don Dean. Photo taken in Chunchon, Korea.





Francis E."Red" Whiteman with dog "Sexy"





Francis E."Red" Whiteman and Don Dean standing beside 942nd FACS Orderly Room sign.





Don said that it was a hot day. Photo taken atop Unnecessary Mountain looking north.





With K-47 in the background I can only assume that SSgt Sulfridge was trying to cool off also.





One of the many farmhouses and rice fields in Korea.





Han River spillway looking north.





Ronald E.Geiling and Don Dean in Chunchon





This photo of Don Dean and Ronald Geiling was taken in 1997. (Any resemblance to the two above?)





Edward Levene with K-47 Chapel in background