I am a little confused here so help me out regarding Captain Peter C. Osterhous. I do not know his previous Shaw Field assignments or what he did during WWII or Korea, but I think he flew combat in Korea -- maybe Rex Deaton or Paul Henkel can fill us in. I recall that Osterhous joined us after we activated the 9th TRSq(EW) with the ECM Cell of the 16th TRSq(NP). He came in as a Captain and transitioned in the TB-25J and later into the B-26B "Hunter Killers". I flew with him and a full crew to Mitchell AFB for a big NYC weekend and a huge seven course dinner with John Rispoli's Mom and Dad. Seems like someone on that flight did not go to the Rispoli's House and Mrs. Rispoli was some upset. I don't remember flying with him in the B-26B until we got those three B-26J "Jammers" in early 1954 along with those seven two ECM position RB-26Cs that had that AN/APQ-13 Navigation Radar in the bomb bay -- interesting that machine had a nose ECM D/F radome for the front ECM position ("back-to-back" with the NAV like the B-26B) and the other ECM position in the waist gunner's position with it's D/F radome just aft of the compartment.

By the way, that RB-26C flew like a dog with those three radomes -- "slow as the itch". Well anyway, the Chief of the ECM Branch at 9th AF (in the Communications Directorate of DCS/Ops under Colonel K. C. Dempster) was Major Lawrence Mills and when his Assistant (I forget the name now but he became quite an ECM Staff influence at the Pentagon later) transferred LtColonel Callahan sent me to 9th AF to replace him. A couple of months after I arrived Major Mills transferred to Europe I think and Colonel Dempster wanted a pilot to replace him and Osterhous came up to replace him as my boss. The head ECM Officer at Hq TAC was a Major Wagner during that entire time. During SAGEBRUSH Osterhous was the Friendly Force ECM Staff Officer and I was the Aggressor Force ECM. Sometime after that, I thought that Osterhous moved out of our Directorate of Communications into the Directorate of Operations. Later when I finished my active duty in September 1956 Tom Sterling replaced me at 9th AF. I seem to remember that you transferred to 9th AF Intelligence after SOS early in 1956.