38th Tactical Recon Squadron, Zweibrucken, Germany

This page was inspired by the 8th TFW home page and is intended to display photos of the
RF-4C and Zweibrucken AB, and to be a meeting place for those who were stationed there.

ATTENTION!! The Contact List is currently inactive. It's not automated and I haven't had the time to learn how to have your info automatically added to the list. For now, please enter you info into the Guestbook (see the button to the left). Thanks...!!

HERE IT IS!!

Reconnaissance units and Air Force intelligence in general are like the Rodney Dangerfield of the Air Force - we "get no respect!"

In my internet travels, when I find F-4 pics, very seldom do I see RF-4C's. Since I have hundreds of RF-4C pictures, including imagery from the various RF-4C on-board cameras, from my tour of duty with the 38th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron at Zweibrucken AB, Germany, I decided to create a place to show them. If you were with the 38th or stationed at Zweibrucken and would like to contact someone else who was there, you may leave your name and other vital stats. Maybe someone you once knew will see it and contact you!

CAN YOU RELATE?

The 38th TRS and Zweibrucken AB (Sunny Zwei) played a big part in the lives of the people who passed through it's one little gate. As a photo interpreter, I liked it so much that I extended my standard 2 year tour to 3 (Sept 77-Aug 80). I know some people who spent 7 or 8 years there! Since I left the 38th TRS at Sunny Zwei in 1980, I've lost contact with most of my friends and acquaintances, but the memories are very strong in my mind. Those I came in contact with (and you know who you are), played a significant role in the direction my life has taken. Each one of you is special, whether we parted on good terms or bad, our lives touched and we are who we are because of it.

If you'd like to contact or be contacted by someone from your "Sunny Zwei" past, add your contact info in the Guestbook. The Contact List is inactive, however there are may names there. Take a look!.

Pics of the RF-4C

Zwei AB from RF-4C pan camera - 101K	A/C 365 & 360 refueling with F-15's - 103K	SLAR of Zwei AB - 260K
A/C 366 - 37K	Ready for the mission - 21K	A/C 562 landing at Alconbury AB - 12K
Landing-taken by another F-4 - 133K	A/C 371 near Hoenzollern castle- 120K	Ooops! Off the runway! (You know who you are) - 252K
View from RF-4C camera of 38th area on the flightline - 176K	Nike SAM site -226K	RF-4C finds some trucks (and his shadow) -80K
RF-4C over a Nike SAM site - 173K	A bad B&W of 2 F-4's taking off -13K	The Walkplatz in downtown Zweibrucken -13K
An RF-4C on taxi -54K	A/C 364 in flight -90K	Zweibrucken AB control tower -52K
RF-4C view of "the base" (Can you find the post office?) -139K	West German RF-4E -26K	A/C 533? (left) and A/C 369 (right) -23K
...on final approach -15K	Touch-and-Go (smokey engines!) -15K	Canopies up! -41K
17th in front; 38th in back -38K	After the mission -36K	Curious pilot and WSO -35K
Ready to go -41K

Pics graciously provided by Tom Pirtle

A/C 350 in flight -29K

A/C 553 (17th TRS?) on the taxiway -39K

A/C 589 at rest at D-M -88K

Pics graciously provided by John Hatfield. (taken by a back seater in a Wild Weasel)

In-flight refueling; on the way to Iraq - 42K

Also during the Gulf War - 72K

Pics taken by Bill Spidle at Tyndall AFB.

Former 38th "Boss Bird" - 42K

A view of the nose - 47K

The 38th patch is still visible... - 47K

Pics graciously provided by Lee Edmiston

Zwei Tower (~1975) - 16k

The Base (~1975) - 55K

A1C Edmiston in the tower. - 24k

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