The life of a military pilot and family man on assignment in South Korea in the early sixties was no walk in the park. While he was there, our father wrote to our mother nearly every day. Join my brother and me as we read and talk about those letters full of military life in Osan, and love and longing for family back home. Each episode contains a little more of his adventure beginning in August 1961.
Osan, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Chuck faces some extremely long days and has to fly back and forth to Seoul multiple times. He bumps head with the new boss for the first time, and gets a laugh from hearing about the shenanigans at home.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck talks enthusiastically about playing golf and he is very happy to get some more home movies.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Short episode this time! Chuck is happy that there are only 5 more months left in the tour and remarks about some of the letters from mom.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck talks about the long days, missing home, and goes on quite a rant regarding his feelings about gong to Seoul again to sit through a bunch of meetings with the Generals.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck talks about flying from Seoul to Osan with Col. Price in a T-Bird with mechanical problems. He sees his friend Grady again and gets some good news.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
The work situation is better now because of the new boss but the hours are long. Great news from Col. Price (aka GB) about General Hutchison improving Chuck's eval before it was sent in.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Things are really looking up at the 314th with the new boss! Chuck is finally getting some much needed perks.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck talks about a huge surprise regarding his job in the last letter of the episode.Mom shares plenty about the the shenanigans on the home front.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck is back in Osan and finally getting to enjoy his new Sony. He also gets good news about his per diem pay for Seoul.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck shares his dissatisfaction about the food in the mess hall. He is finally getting some more mail and plays a "sloppy" game of golf. Time seems to really be dragging.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck passes on the news he gets about how Grady's recovery is going. He gets some long awaited news from the Pentagon regarding his next assignment.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck is missing the family and feeling very frustrated with the multiple problems with mail delivery. The weather is warming up and at least he is getting a few golf games in!Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Plenty of talk about the family and descriptions of Chuck's life at the new temporary assignment. Chuck also shares some interesting drama he has heard about from his office in Osan.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
We get some big news about a Captain who worked for Chuck in the office at Osan and plenty of family news as well as his day to day life in Korea.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck is getting settled into his new assignment and all that comes with it. He's managed to scare the secretary in Osan, and he is getting some interesting news from home about the family.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck is off to temporary duty in Seoul. He shares details about his new surroundings and his thoughts about being there. The time stretches on before him, but at least he is finally about halfway done with his time in Korea.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
The letters in this episode center mainly around discussions of the family and finances and the difficulties Dad faces in trying to do this at such a distance. We also get a little more insight as to how his day to day routine goes.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
This episode starts out with talk of things going on at home and general goings on in Dad's life. It ends up with some very in depth and critical discussion about his job situation and the people he works for.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
These next letters give us some insight as to some trouble brewing on the base and what they are doing about it. Chuck shares his thoughts on possibly taking a longer tour overseas with the family.**Please note I am not editing these letters for political correctness, rather we are reading them exactly as Chuck wrote them. Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
In these letters we find out that Chuck has to be the bad guy and wash an incompetent pilot out of the program. We get plenty of family talk and really get some poignant thoughts about his missing home.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
We have some interesting mysteries in this episode. Chuck reveals much more about his job and how he is dealing with being away from home and what his life is like there.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Some Adult language and content in this episode. Chuck is pretty sure at this point that he is not going to be transferred, but he talks about a couple of things going well for him at least.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
In these next four letters Dad gets big news about a job change and what he will have to do if it comes through including water survival training. He also gets the word that he will be able to move out of the temporary “box” he's been living in and into permanent quarters.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
These next three letters are full of discussion about the family. There is more about flying too, and Dad's thoughts about a job change. We find out more about the secretary and get some gossipy news about friends of theirs.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
The letters in this episode talk about Dad's experiences getting settled into life in Osan and a lot about his feelings about what is going on back home. Dad mentions his friend Alex Butterfield for the first time, and a painting of me that we still have.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
In letters 6,7 & 8 we hear Dad's reaction when our Mother tells him she has a job. He talks some more about his injured finger and working in temperatures so hot he has to keep his arm and hand off the paper when he writes to keep from sticking to it.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
We read the next three letters in this episode. Dad gets a much needed radio and has an interesting first meeting with the office secretary. He talks about his current job and discusses other possibilities that could present themselves.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Here is the premier episode of Letters From A Lonely Flyboy! In this episode we read the first 2 letters From Chuck after he first arrives in Osan.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
The letters in this episode deal mainly with the family and difficulties of working with finances and logistics while so far apart during this particular time. Chuck shares news about downed airplanes and the death of a pilot that Mom knew.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Dad shares shocking news about an American Sgt. who went off his rocker and threw an hand grenade into a room of officers in Vietnam. Chuck's friend and fellow Air Force pilot Grady Morris was in the room and injured in the attack. Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Miss Pak got her present and was so happy she cried! Chuck talks about getting away from work for awhile and how much he misses the family.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Dad gives his opinion about a story misrepresented by the press about a C-47 crash at the base, and he is assigned the job of writing his own performance review.Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Dad finally gets a phone call through and we get a very interesting comment about Mom's mailman.Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck receives a lot of very appreciated picture from home! He talks about some presents for the family from Miss Pak and what he does for her in return. Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at letterfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck shares some high praise for the electric blanket and pictures from home. He is also candid about how much he misses our mother.Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
It's the new year! Chuck is lamenting about not being able to make a call home and comments quites a bit on what is going on with the family. Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelflyboy, or be email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Lots of discussion about the family, Christmas and newsy comments about friends and relatives in the episode. Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Christmas in Osan. Chuck deals with getting through the holidays without the family and spends a miserable, cold Christmas night. Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck finally gets a taste of the good life while staying in Japan with Col. Price. It is one of the only times he has talked about really enjoying himself. The trip was not without it's adventures though!Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
To begin with, we get a really upbeat letter about how Dad is feeling about his assingment application and an intersting trip he will go on the Col. Price. Later he apologizes profuesely to our mohter for his comments to her in a letter he wished he hadn't sent.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Dad writes about coming to a decision about his future assignment, and how to better deal with his present situation. There is a lot of discussion of family, especially as it relates to the holidays.Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at letterfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
We really get how frustrated Dad is feeling about what to do about the future, as well as with dealing with his present situation.Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
We get some fun family news in these letters, as well as some interesting information about the poeple he works with. Please contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at letterfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
We get a huge info dump regarding Chuick;s trip to Japan and numerous job offers. More about how he handles his boss at the office too. You are welcome to contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck is really venting about his job frustrations in this episode. We get some news about the family and he receives some sad news about a good friend. You are welcome to contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
There is more from Chuck and less form us in this 5 letter episode! His frustration with his work situatuon really shows through and we find out how much the movies from hope are helping.You are welcome to contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
In this episode we find out about the Korean philosphy about giving and recieving gifts and the importance of following certian rules about them. Family pictures, gifts and more about finances and job possibilities throughout. You are welcome to contact us with questions and comments on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Chuck lays it on the line about how deeply he feels about his relationship with Renee, and about his family in the 3rd letter of this episode. Plenty of family discussion as well as job updates.You are welcome to contact us on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.comPlease contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
Christmas is among the things weighing on the Chuck's mind right now. He is finally getting some news from other family members and friends too.Please contact us on instagram @lonelyflyboy, or email us at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you!Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
In the episode we find out what a jerk Colonel Duncan can be, and how Dad plans to get around that. We also get a very compelling letter about how they are trying to make the long distance finances work, and through that we get some relationship insights.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
In this episode we learn what a good friend Alex Butterfield is, (a good friend in high places) and what he is doing on Dad's behalf to try and help him on the job front. We also get a fun insight into Dad's sense of humor, especially in the third letter.Please contact us with questions and comments on Instagram @lonelyflyboy or by email at lettersfromalonelyflyboy@gmail.com . We would love to hear from you!
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