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I just got off the phone with Matty Gache, (Marius A. Gache). He is alive and well in the Pensacoa area. He has a new e-mail address. All his old e-mail info was lost in a computer crash. Better to crash computers than helicopters. Here is Matty's address:
Seawolfdetone@gmail.com
He was in Det One in 1967 in the beginning. For eight days in 1965, Matty and I had the only helicopter in the Dominican Republic in the middle of a revolution. That made us very popular. After 100 landings and numerous rescues of stranded Americans, the ship baked a cake that said, 100 LANDINGS. Un the UH-13P there is one pilot and a bench seat for 3 in the back. No copilot. We swapped off and switched pilots every time we refueled. Every time we landed on the fantail, two guys came running out with a drip pan so no oil would drip into the teak deck.Then an H-34 flown by Con Jaburg arrived and one drip pan was not enough. They needed buckets in addition to the drip pan. Con had flown all the way from Puerto Rico and he had an aux tank on the left side of that orange H-34. Then an LPD showed up and they had 115/145 so Con moved over there with the leaky H-34. I think the XO of the Newport News had something to do with that move.
Hey, You can't make this stuff up.
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