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Contributed By - Bill 'Smokey' Stover

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Ring Found 5/6/06 - Posted 5/8/06

Bill 'Smokey' Stover's Puzzle Ring

Received a Great Book From Chris Harris - 4/15/06

I am reading this book which describes all aspects of life

in Trabzon from 1949 through 1956 - I will 'Critique'

in about a week

Front Cover

Back Cover

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Notice – Back to my Books !

April 27, 2006

Web Manager – Bill ‘Smokey’ Stover

 Back to my books.  Site Maintenance activity has slowed somewhat in the last few weeks.  I will be working

 at a frantic pace in an attempt to finish my Book about Trabzon sometime between now and the end of summer.

We hope to fly to Portland, OR, and to Sacramento, CA in early June.  We will rent a car in Sacramento and drive

 throughout CA for a couple of weeks.  We hope to return home in late June, recover, and then motor home for

a few months within the Southern and  Eastern Regions of the USA.  The motor home trip is a final fact finding tour.

I hope to meet with a number of Trabzon Vets and a number of USS Brinkley Bass Vets.  I have all of the necessary

equipment in the motor home to facilitate the gathering and processing of information, including a Mobile Internet

Satellite System which allows Internet Access from almost anywhere in the USA.  I will maintain the Sites and all

communications while in the motor home.  Keep your input coming.  I will post everything that comes in while I

am on the road.

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Posted 4/27/06

(Available - June/August 2006)

Re-Posted 4/5/06

Brought over from Book Info Site and Posting Site

Does anyone know these guys?  I am the guy on the right end in the fatigues.  We wore any combination

of clothes that worked for us on any given occasion.  Remember the silly blue rain cover that was

supposed to fit over your dress blue billed cap.  That is covering a ball cap in this picture.  I don't

know who took this picture or how I got it.  Most of my pictures were 35mm slides.  I think the guy

on the left was the Postal Clerk.  I'm not so sure about the GI in the middle.  I organized a number

of hunting and fishing trips while at Trabzon.  I had an AF Driver's License so I always drove one of

the 'Big Blue' trucks on most trips.  I believe that this picture found us on a fishing trip somewhere

in eastern Turkey, probably on the way to the 'Black River'.  A side note about Postal Clerks.  This

Postal Clerk was probably my best 'buddy' while at Trabzon.  One of the first things I was told when

arriving at Trabzon was to order a subscription of every 'girly' magazine I could find.  Every other

GI was told to do the same.  It seems as though every Military Postal and Cargo Handler from the

San Francisco and New York A.P.O.s to Trabzon, Turkey, got first dibs on magazines of there choice.

By the time mail got to Trabzon only about 1/3 of the magazines got through.  It really didn't matter

who's name was on the magazine, within 3 days the pages were dog eared from use and every GI had

already seen every picture and within a week every GI had read every story and every byline.

This is another 'Fishing Trip' picture.  This is one of my slides.  This is another trip.  I think the GI in the light

colored clothes in the center of each picture is the same guy.  Because of the poor quality of the slide, and

because 43 years is a long time, I don't recognize anyone or remember any names.  I remember this trip

because it almost ended in disaster.  It was very wet, the road was very muddy, and I always drove too fast.

I lost it on a curve and almost put the truck over a 20 foot drop into the 'Black River'.  One of the 'trippers'

and I took one of the small pickup trucks back to the 'Base'.  We got the TSgt and A1C from the motor pool

to come up and bail us out.  They brought the 'Wrecker' and another 'Support' vehicle.  It only took about

5 minutes and 'Big Blue' was back on the road.  The TSgt chewed me out good and then he and the A1C

returned to 'Base'.  When we returned, I was summoned to the CO's office.  He chewed on me again for about

15 minutes and told me to be more careful next trip.  I promised to be a more defensive driver.  I returned to

 work and about a month later took a hunting trip back into the mountains of eastern Turkey.

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I drove the 'Big Rigs'.

Short Timer's Ribbon - On the Bottle

Chai Glass - From a Travel Magazine

The car I left at home to go to Trabzon

DD214 - Going Home

21st Birthday Card - Issued by Arizona when I returned Home

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