the Shemya mailbag
Volume 1, No. 1 of "The Shemya Mailbag" was printed in June of 1987.
In the words of Dan Lange, Editor and chief bottle washer of The
Shemya Mailbag, the newsletter "is for those people who served on
Shemya and who now belong to the Shemya Veterans of W.W.II.
Through these pages we can re-live the days of 40 years ago when
we were put on that 2x4 mile piece of tundra to defend our country.
We can talk of the good and the bad times of things that took place in a
different world than the one we live in today." Dan Lange, who graciously supplied the
P-38 "Little Butch" photos seen on the Shemya WWII pages, was also the crew chief of
the "Little Butch," and was stationed on Shemya towards the end of WWII. Volume 8
No 3, published in September of 1994, was the last issue of The Shemya Mailbag to be
published.
Dan Lange, June 1999
Dan Lange (Standing), Shemya, 1946
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Life Payment (Blood Chit), by J.R.Bailey (1941)
My Recollections of the 404th Bomb Squadron, by T.O.Williams (1941,1942...)
The Bill Butkovic Story, by Bill Butkovic (1942)
R.A.F. P-38, Dan Lange (1942)
Aleutian Medic, by Robert Lynch (1942-1944)
Chronology of the Aleutian Campaign, Compiled by Dan Lange (1942-1945)
Jefferson Barracks, by Charles Reynolds (Date Unk.)
Army Life During W.W. II, by Dwight Ringland (1943)
Air Battle For Attu, by Harry Higgins (May 1943)
First Landing On Shemya, by Ed Havlik (May 1943)
Construction of a Forward Airbase: Shemya, by Capt. James L. Ross (May 1943 -
Dec 1945)
An Aleutian Journey, by Lt. Col. Eugene M. Landrum, Jr. (May 1943-1952)
Diary of 2nd Lt. Larry Reineke, by Larry Reineke (Jul-Aug 1943)
War Stories, By Harry Higgins (Sep-Oct 1943)
Christmas 1944/1945, by Hank Frese (Dec 1944)
Random Thoughts of Shemya, by Ted Gawlicki (1944)
Luck Was With Me, by Judson Mills (Dec 1944)
A Record Breaking Flight, by Col. John Hed, USAF-Ret.(1944-1945)
The Cruise Of The BSP 1923, by Admiral Harry Bailey (1944-1945)
A Whale of a Tale, by Jim Sample (Jun 1945)
B-24 Raid on Paramushiro, by Richard Korpanty (1945)
A Christmas Message, from Fr Lawrence O.S.B. (Dec 1945)
Current Update: 06/10/2022 8:56
We’ve extracted selected articles from issues of “The Shemya Mailbag”
supplied by Dan, and made them available to our Shemya web site visitors.
We’ve attempted to keep them in some sort of chronological order. They are in
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, which will require you to have a stand-alone copy
of Adobe Acrobat Reader or an equivalent application installed on your
computer.
the Shemya mailbag
Volume 1, No. 1 of "The Shemya
Mailbag" was printed in June of 1987.
In the words of Dan Lange, Editor and
chief bottle washer of The Shemya
Mailbag, the newsletter "is for those
people who served on Shemya and
who now belong to the Shemya Veterans
of W.W.II. Through these pages we can re-live the days
of 40 years ago when we were put on that 2x4 mile
piece of tundra to defend our country. We can talk of
the good and the bad times of things that took place in
a different world than the one we live in today." Dan
Lange, who graciously supplied the P-38 "Little Butch"
photos seen on the Shemya WWII pages, was also the
crew chief of the "Little Butch," and was stationed on
Shemya towards the end of WWII. Volume 8 No 3,
published in September of 1994, was the last issue of
The Shemya Mailbag to be published.
Dan Lange, June 1999
Dan Lange (Standing), Shemya, 1946
We’ve extracted selected articles from issues of “The
Shemya Mailbag” supplied by Dan, and made them
available to our Shemya web site visitors. We’ve
attempted to keep them in some sort of chronological
order. They are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, which
will require you to have a stand-alone copy of Adobe
Acrobat Reader or an equivalent application installed
on your computer.
To download the current free version of Adobe Acrobat
Reader, “Adobe Acrobat Reader DC,” go to:
https://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
then select your computer’s Operating System, Language,
and which of the versions you want to install. You may want
to “uncheck” the accompanying free applications prior to
downloading the free Acrobat Reader. [Note: Current
browsers are now able to read PDF files, with no need to
download the Adobe Reader application!]
Life Payment (Blood Chit), by J.R.Bailey (1941)
My Recollections of the 404th Bomb Squadron, by T.O.Williams (1941,1942...)
The Bill Butkovic Story, by Bill Butkovic (1942)
R.A.F. P-38, Dan Lange (1942)
Aleutian Medic, by Robert Lynch (1942-1944)
Chronology of the Aleutian Campaign, Compiled by Dan Lange (1942-1945)
Jefferson Barracks, by Charles Reynolds (Date Unk.)
Army Life During W.W. II, by Dwight Ringland (1943)
Air Battle For Attu, by Harry Higgins (May 1943)
First Landing On Shemya, by Ed Havlik (May 1943)
Construction of a Forward Airbase: Shemya, by Capt. James L. Ross (May 1943 -
Dec 1945)
An Aleutian Journey, by Lt. Col. Eugene M. Landrum, Jr. (May 1943-1952)
Diary of 2nd Lt. Larry Reineke, by Larry Reineke (Jul-Aug 1943)
War Stories, By Harry Higgins (Sep-Oct 1943)
Christmas 1944/1945, by Hank Frese (Dec 1944)
Random Thoughts of Shemya, by Ted Gawlicki (1944)
Luck Was With Me, by Judson Mills (Dec 1944)
A Record Breaking Flight, by Col. John Hed, USAF-Ret.(1944-1945)
The Cruise Of The BSP 1923, by Admiral Harry Bailey (1944-1945)
A Whale of a Tale, by Jim Sample (Jun 1945)
B-24 Raid on Paramushiro, by Richard Korpanty (1945)
A Christmas Message, from Fr Lawrence O.S.B. (Dec 1945)
Current Update: 06/10/2022 8:56
