Paul toupin

A Karamürsel Survivor

 

 

 

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    I WAS on Charlie Flight when Dottie Aspell was in charge, but then moved to Days doing the anal/reporting for the Romanian section. Subsequently I took care of all the 203's OJT program, and gave the Friday morning briefing for the base commander and his staff. When I left there I went to Polish language school at Syracuse Univ., then had very interesting tours in West Berlin, Warsaw Poland, and NSA. So, my flight was probably mostly days. I retired in 1974 - yes, I was a lifer.

 

     I have a very handsome jacket, which I would be happy to donate as a door or drawing prize (it would just be part of my estate someday). It is reversible and says Charlie Flight on one side with an ape wearing earphones, and the other side has a map of Turkey showing Karamursel and a mosque and the words TUSLOG Det. 3 and Karamursel Turkiye. (Dottie didn't think much of the ape with earphones but let it slide.) I can box it up and send it to whomever you say. It does say Paul on it, but otherwise it's a great memento.

 

     I recognize very few of the names on the 16 pages, I guess because I was a day lady and was married and lived with my family in Yalova. A few months before we left they started putting in the housing on the old runways, and we had just begun to plan on where and how to hide stuff from the Turks for when we were to share

our facility with them (I remember that the women's bathroom was where some things were to be stashed).  

Paul Toupin