282nd ASSAULT HELICOPTER CO.

Welcome to The Cat House

jose solano - Monday, 17 November 2014 18:29

Does anyone have any info Johnny Simpson, Arkansas.  5/66 to 5/67?

Dennis Bouslaugh - Sunday, 26 October 2014 13:05

hello everyone . I was in the Airfraim shop 70-71 . Anyone who rememberes me please contact me so I can get an Idea who is still around. My phone # 805-637-1477 . This is a Ca. Number , but I live in Brigham  City Utah . All calls welcome. 

Bill Farress - Tuesday, 14 October 2014 19:30

This was posted on our Black Cat Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/908537315840191/

Congrats on the new book, Bob Ford.

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Cat-2-1-Vietnam-Helicopter/dp/1612542085/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413236413&sr=1-1

Black Cat 2-1: The True Story of a Vietnam Helicopter Pilot and His Crew
In the Vietnam War, 2,197 helicopter pilots and 2,717 crew members were killed. Black Cat 2-1 is the story of one pilot who made it home and the valiant men he...
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Stephen Seitz - Wednesday, 08 October 2014 17:39

Great site, thanks for the memories. I was medic at Marble Mt. from 11/69 to 6/71 also was with 282nd at Dong Hoa.

William V. Giles IV - Monday, 22 September 2014 03:04

Hello Ray and my BlackCat family. I thank you for all the good works you do with the web page. I remember some of are brothers that have passed and was there May 8th 69 to April 13 70. May they rest in peace and make a place for us when we are together again.  I remember flying with C. McCall on AC 37 taking a Aussy three Star to the last outpost on the DMZ and being warned on approch not to land just dump the general  into the command bunker as we were taken morter rounds into compond and broke away on the QT with words over radio we have a MIG on our tail. Thanks to the F-4s close by we were saved from a no win Slick encounter.  Bill Giles

ray jennings - Sunday, 21 September 2014 10:27

If you received the August-September issue of the AARP magizine, be sure to read the article on page 36. It is about Jerry Elliott who is still MIA.

ray jennings - Monday, 08 September 2014 17:29

If anyone has any information on Wayne Hanson please let me know

Ed Segar - Sunday, 07 September 2014 22:09

This is my daughters biker vest I'm sure you will notice the Black Cat patch on it, she was at a rally and was ask about it she told the guy it was her dads outfit, he said if it weren't for us Black Cats he would not have made it home.

 

 

PATRICK J JEFFAS - Friday, 02 January 2015 20:08

That’s the kind of stuff that made it all worthwhile. It was the gratitude of the guys on the ground that I will always remember.

Frank Ripley - Sunday, 31 August 2014 20:35

C 2/1 196th INF. BDE, 23rd INF Div, Americal, 1971.  Thanks for all you did for us grunts guys.  Thank you for your sacrifices and the risks you took for us too!  Sorry for puking in the cabin and sorry for tearing open that bag of persistent CS powder.

Peter Larkin - Wednesday, 20 August 2014 18:21

Looking for information  on William G Hasselman US Army can only find limited info only saying died April 1971. Member of Black Cats. I grew up across the street from him.

Jeff - Tuesday, 16 September 2014 16:01

CWO2 Hassleman walked into a tail rotor during a preflight check for a test flight. He had less than a month left on his tour.

Bill Farress - Saturday, 13 December 2014 15:21

I believe the accident occurred after dark.

William Brooks - Wednesday, 07 January 2015 14:11

I was on the flight line that night, I was the first one to him and pulled off my flight shirt to put on his head. I know he had signs of life for a couple of hours after arrival at the hospital. I was the 2nd Platoon Commander.