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SECTION TWO
2.1 Persons Described and Periods of Service at
Roswell AAF/Walker AFB…
- p. 10 2.2 Fatal Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year
in the Vicinity of Walker AFB-1947…
- p. 13 …Hospital Dispensary, Building 317, Walker AFB, N.M., 1954.
25. Main Gate at Walker AFB, N…
- p. 26 …Due to the location of the sites,
attention was focused on Roswell AAF (renamed Walker AFB…
- p. 27 …h Strategic Missile Squadron in areas surrounding Walker AFB, N.M. These missiles were
determined not…
- p. 55 …space probe just prior to
launch at Walker AFB, N.M.
(formerly Roswell AAF).
(U.S…
- p. 91 …Nordstrom served at Walker AFB from June 1951 until June 1953.60
Records also revealed that…
- p. 94 …hospital at Roswell AAF or Walker AFB
(RoswellAAF was renamed Walker AFB in January 1948).
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- p. 95 …Ferrell
(left), was commander of the
Walker AFB hospital from
1954-1960. In this photo
Ferrell…
- p. 96 …of individuals assigned to the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB
hospital indicated that Dennis'recollections of events…
- p. 97 …Consequently, a comprehensive review of the morning reports
and rosters of the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB…
- p. 98 …Further, he did not arrive
at Walker AFB until June 1951, four years after the purported…
- p. 99 Table 2.1
Persons Described and Periods of Service
at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB
Witness
Description…
- p. 100 2.2
Aircraft Accidents
The examination of events that involved the Walker AFB
hospital that may…
- p. 101 …Table 2.3
Analysis of Air Force Aircraft Accidents
by Year in the Vicinity of Walker…
- p. 102 …Main entrance of the
4036th USAF hospital at
Walker AFB, 1956. Initial
identification procedures of
the…
- p. 104 …142 Finally, records revealed
that due to limited facilities at the Walker AFB hospital, the autopsies…
- p. 105 …Ferrell served at the Walker AFB hospital from 1954
until 1960. 150 It would not be…
- p. 106 …In June 1956, the Walker AFB hospital
did not have a pathologist on staff. 160 All…
- p. 107 …the heightened state of security at the Walker AFB hospital;
and,
d. the shipment of a…
- p. 108 …descended and were recovered in areas
surrounding Walker AFB and Roswell. But based on the descriptions…
- p. 109 …166 The accident occurred on May 21, 1959, 10 miles
northwest of Walker AFB, on a…
- p. 114 …184 For medical treatment, the pilots were transported by the helicopter
to nearby Walker AFB. 185…
- p. 115 …Kittinger,
who has red hair, was present at the Walker AFB hospital the entire time the…
- p. 116 …the injured balloon pilots arrived at the Walker AFB
hospital, even though Project ExcELSIOR was unclassified…
- p. 119 …the rear of an
ambulance at the Walker AFB hospital also appear to be related to…
- p. 120 …The ramp was attached to
the hospital dispensary, Walker AFB Bldg. 317. 217 The other ambulances…
- p. 121 …like broken glass," a witness'
description of debris in the
rear of an ambulance at Walker…
- p. 122 …Main gate at Walker
AFB, N.M., formerly Roswell
AAF, as it appeared in 1954.
During…
- p. 123 …we could have been ... trying to penetrate the security."223 Walker
AFB security officials were satisfied…
- p. 126 …Although Fulgham did not require hospitalization at Walker AFB,
upon his return to Holloman AFB he…
- p. 127 …the pediatrician did not arrive at the Walker AFB
hospital until 1951-four years after the…
- p. 146 …Roster of Officers, 6th Bomb Wing, Walker AFB, N.M., December 30,
1952, "History of the…
- p. 149 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. October 4, thru October 7,
1955, George Schwaderer, Identification…
- p. 150 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956,
George Schwaderer, Identification…
- p. 151 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956,
George Schwaderer, Identification…
- p. 152 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. October 4, thru October 7,
1955, George Schwaderer, Identification…
- p. 153 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956,
George Schwaderer, Identification…
- p. 164 …l was on active duty in the US Air Force and stationed at Walker AFB, Roswell…
- p. 166 …Air Force in 1957 as a flight surgeon and was assigned to Walker AFB,
NM, in…
- p. 167 At no time was there ever any involvement of the Walker hospital with UFO's or…
- p. 168 …Security was very tight at Strategic Air
Command bases such as Walker. On occasion surprise inspection…
- p. 173 …transpm1ed the three aii·crew members to Walker AFB for medil:al attention. I n:call…
- p. 176 …Fulgham was loaded
into the helicopter and we were taken to the nearest hospital, at
Walker…
- p. 180 …When we arrived at Walker I remember that security \Vas tight as it was at all…
- p. 182 …At Walker I remember a telephone conversation with a flight surgeon \Vho
told me to "go…
- p. 186 …I was on active duty in the US Air Force and stationed at Walker AFB, Roswell…
- p. 231 …and Larry" 19
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STATEMENT OF WITNESS
Placr Date: 25 May 95
I, Charles A Coltman, Jr., Col, USAF, MC (Ret), hereby state that James McAndrew was
identified as a Lieutenant, USAFR, on this date at my place of employment and do hereby,
voluntarily and of my own free will, make the following statement. This was done without
having been subjected to any coercion, unlawful influence or unlawful inducement.
I entered the U.S. Air Force in 1957 as a flight surgeon and was assigned to Walker AFB,
NM, in 1958. Following a residency at Ohio State University from 1959 to 1963, I was
assigned to Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX, where I eventually
became the Chairman of the Department of Medicine. I retired from the Air Force in
1977. I am presently a Professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio, and Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Therapy and Research Foundation of
South Texas.
I remember a balloon crash that happened north of Roswell, NM, in May, 1959. I
received a phone call from the NCOIC of the Flight Surgeon's office, who informed me of
the crash. The NCOIC, Earl Wormwood, came to my quarters and we drove, in an old
blue Air Force "crackerbox" ambulance, to the crash site. I remember the gondola laying
on its side and the deflated balloon on the ground. The crew members were sitting next to
the gondola. I examined the pilots and determined they were not seriously injured. They
told me they were practicing touch-and-go's and a gust of wind had dumped them on the
ground, and the gondola had struck one of the pilots in the head. Also present were Air
Force technicians in trucks who tracked the balloon. The injured pilots were transported
to the Flight Surgeon's office at the hospital at Walker AFB.
The injury sustained by the crew member was a head abrasion/contusion and a hematoma.
The hematoma caused the patient's head to swell; however, it was not serious enough for
him to be admitted. I remember receiving a call from Col (Dr.) John Stapp. He was in
charge of the balloon project and was quite famous. Dr Stapp inquired about the injuries
to the pilots and he wanted them returned to Holloman AFB as quickly as possible.
The hospital was an old World War II cantonment-type building with long corridors and a
capacity of fifty beds. I do not recall a nurse assisting me in the treatment of the patient,
although a nurse may have been on duty and observed the patient. I was the only doctor
in the hospital that morning. There were no visiting doctors from other bases or facilities.
I do not remember any altercations or arguments that day. During my time at Walker, I
do not recall that any autopsies were performed at the hospital, since we did not have a
pathologist on staff. I do not recall any remains brought to the hospital in body bags, or
wreckage transported in the back of an ambulance. There may have been remains brought
to the hospital in body bags after a KC-97 crash, but that was before I arrived at Walker.
Dr Ed Bradley was involved in the recovery of the remains
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