So USAF Signal Intel was airlifted to Turkey, not Iran, due to IAF raids on peshawar... who knew??
Airborne to Chairborne: Memoirs of a War Veteran Aviator-Lawyer of the Indian Air Force by A.S Ahluwalia, chapter 16. Oh and there were at least 2 raids on peshawar. He says almost entire B-57 was stationed there during night.
http://www.rediff.com/news/special/when-we-fight-a-war-we-forget-the-danger/20150916.htm - Air Marshall Arjan Singh.
http://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/1312-1965-12-KS-a-JHS.pdf - pakistan itself accusing india of attacking peshawar twice, 13 and 27 sept.
And another GEM that I found out!!! An USAF Signal Intel guy claiming he had PTSD (among many other incident) when IAF obliterated his building in Peshawar!!!
"The second incident occurred while the veteran was stationed in Pakistan at a monitoring base involved in monitoring the Soviet Union. War broke out between India and Pakistan. The veteran reported that a warning sounded to evacuate the building, and that right after the veteran left the building it was attacked and pulverized by an air strike of Indian planes making a direct hit...."
http://www.va.gov/vetapp08/files4/0829498.txt
It goes on to list his boss/colleague confirming the incident (his name is redacted)!!
And then, it states this -
"Lastly, the veteran has submitted a copy of several pages of a publication, "The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965,"
published in 2005 by an author and publisher in India. That book reports on that war; and the portions submitted
specifically show that in September 1965, elements of the Indian Air Force raided the airfield at Peshawar. The attack
damaged the runway, petroleum installations, aircraft hangars, and the PAF headquarters building outside the airfield.
The author noted that the United States Air Force maintained a Signal Intelligence base at Badaber, about 20 miles south of Peshawar, housing the 6937th Communications Group. A large contingent of that group was based near the Peshawar airfield itself. The bombing of Peshawar forced the Americans to evacuate to Iran."
Thanks for asking the source though. You rarely get this type of third party confirmation, that too from USAF personnel..
LOL... and I found another one:
http://www.6937th.org/memories.htm
George Singleton, First Lieutenant, 6937th Group, Det. 2, Karachi . . . . . . here is some overlooked info that many of your good site's readers might enjoy remembering:
1. I was shipped from HQ USAFSS at Kelly AFB, San Antonio, where I had been the Hq. Squadron Commander via Charleston to Karachi, then West Pakistan, to be the Commander, Det. 2, 6937th Comm Gp at the US Embassy in Karachi. My job was as Transportation Officer (Airlift). Initially before SECDEF McNamara imposed his military cost accounting system I as a merely Lieutenant could and did manifest men and material anywhere/everywhere in the world, to and from and through then West Pakistan.
I shipped over to Pakistan in Nov., 1963 and PCSed back to the States in June, 1965. After the Gulf of Tonkin in early 1965 my newest "additional duty" was as Walking Wounded Evacuation Officer for all services military personnel (walking wounded) coming from South Vietnam to Charleston AFB. ***Half our wounded went to Charleston, the other half went to Travis AFB in California, to reduce the visibility of the number of wounded (and KIA) we immediately start to experience once Vietnam went "hot" in early 1965.
I was Liaison Officer with all our Allied Military Attaches in various embassies in Karachi, as well as with Pakistani civilians and military personnel in their Ministry of Defense and Foreign Office. A key quiet part of my job was getting "black box parts" moved out of and into (replacements or repaired parts) to keep our U-2s flying. I was also in charge of while in the Karachi area of Ft. Worth contract engineering teams who worked on and maintained our U-2s.
2. I was carried on the US Air Attache roster for cover purposes but reported directly to Colonel Thomas C. Hyde as his/the 6937th Comm Gp "USAF Liaison Officer."
3. As an additional duty I lived in and ran via Master Sgt. Jack Hever, USAF, Ret., Dec, the Salateen Club.
4. I was promoted in July, 1964 to First Lieutenant while serving as Commander, Det. 2, 6937th Comm Gp in Karachi. ***This website correctly notes my rank on arrival as Second Lieutenant, but overlooks my promotion to First Lieutenant while in Pakistan.
5. My job and work included covering movements of all military and US Government civilian personnel via Maripur Pak Air Base and the Karachi Civil Airport. I was also Liaison with the Army Port Transportation Unit which moved material by train to and from the 6937th in Peshawar. I was also part of the protocol meet and greet team of the Office of the US Air Attache (Colonel Williams, USAF). Additionally, as USAFSS [the 6937th] was part of and under the National Security Agency, I also had a desk in the Office of the CIA Pakistan County Team Chief.
6. As events from January, 1965 (when I was wounded in the Rann of Kutch, where earliest skirmishing of the 1965 India-Pakistan War first began) proved that a hot war was at hand, my work was "pulled into" literally, physically, the US Embassy CIA Team Chief area inside the embassy building. *I was tasked jointly by Colonel Hyde, the US Ambassador, Walter P. McChonaughy, and Jack Schaffer, CIA in country team chief, with writing and starting to implement the 6937th Comm Gp Evacuation Plan.
7. Our biggest move out of Peshawar took place in summer, 1965, just after I PCSed back to the States, and most of our civilian family members and most of our military personnel were relocated by airlift into Turkey, not into Iran as someone else wrote elsewhere on this site.
8. During the last 6 months of my 18 month tour of duty in Karachi (I had a longer tour of duty than you boys who were based in Peshawar for whatever reason) the 6937th ceded the management and control of the Salateen Club to the USMAAG and for housing I was relocated into MAAG staff house next door to the USMAAG Chief, Major General George Ruhlen, USA, Ret., Dec. Gen. Ruhlen's aide de camp was Captain Gerald P. Stadler, USA, who today, 2009 is a 71 year old retired Major General, living in Oklahoma near Ft. Sill. Gerry and I are still very good friends today.
***USMAAG Chief Major General George Ruhlen, USA, as a Lieutenant Colonel of tanks under General Patton secured the Bridge at Remaggen in 1945 as Allied forces defeated the Nazis. Gen. Ruhlen was quite a piece of great American military history.
9. After I PCSed back to the States in June, 1965, the Army and Navy MAAG staff officers who remained in the staff house where I had been living were arrested briefly during the summer 1965 as "enemy spies" by the Pak military and jailed for a week or two somewhere in Karachi. Most of these now all retired officers say little about this arrest history for whatever reason.
This information summarized tells the reader of the formal existence of Det. 2, 6937th Comm Gp in Karachi, where I was the Commanding Officer. Me, Master Sergeant Jack Hever, and over 40 Pakistanis who worked directly for me, most of whom were retired Pakistani military officers of retired ranks of Major and Captain "who knew the ropes" to get things done through Karachi to and from Peshawar to support you guys at the HQ 6937th Comm Gp. in Peshawar.
Also, let's remember our buddies who were tenants on our base in Peshawar, the US Army Security Teams and the Naval Intelligence teams there.
George L. Singleton, Colonel, USAF, Ret.
Hoover, Alabama
Another source:
https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVvKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR3&lpg=PR3&dq=ISBN+978-1-4808-0456-2&source=bl&ots=58xyPevmkD&sig=3S4g7sTVOi0zob9viCBZsSzfPgc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi53sTYx_bNAhUP8WMKHdzQBY8Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=ISBN 978-1-4808-0456-2&f=false
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PAF operated USAF Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F Canberra damaged during peshawar raid by IAF. USAF lied to PAF about the damage extent to fly it out of pakistan.
