http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:jonjac&section=today deviantART RSS for by:jonjac en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:46:55 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/28175078/ http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/28175078/ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:38:31 PST
At 2:30 AM on the 4th there was a complimentary breakfast for us. Each bus was assigned an area . About 4:00 we started loading the buses to take us to the plane. At 5:00 we loaded the 747 for a 6:30 take off. Landed at Dulles Airport about 10:00, and once again loaded onto buses to start a day of sightseeing at several Memorials significant to the Military History of our country.

First stop was the WW II Memorial where we were supposed to spend and hour an half, but for some reason we only had an hour. Then on to the Iwo Jima Memorial. From there it was Arlington Nat'l. Cemetery. We got there in time to watch the 4:00 changing of the guard. Then on to the Korean Memorial and from there it was walking distance to the Viet Nam Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. By this time it had become overcast and was getting on the dark side. The light was not conducive to good photographs, but the Nikon D40 did pretty well. I did not go in the Lincoln Memorial, but did get a twilight shot of the building.

Once again we boarded the buses to head back to Dulles and board the 747 for the flight back to Des Moines, There were a lot of sleeping "ancient ones" on the way home. Arrived D.M. about 10:30, back on the buses, and arrived Holiday Inn 11:00 - right on schedule. I will try to add the album of Honor Flight photographs to my site.

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At the Redistribution Center one question on a questionere was to list 3 bases I would like to be reassigned to. Having been raised in the Dakotas, and having just spent 3 years in the tropics I was anxious to get back to my natural habitat. My 3 choices were all along the Canadian border. Sure am glad Uncle Sam didn't heed my desire.

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It is my hope that the WW II folders will give some of the younger visitors to the site a little better understanding of what the freedoms they enjoy today cost so many 60 - 65 years ago. It's the old story "Freedom is not Free". I recently ran into two instances -one with with college students, one with high school students - who had no idea of the significance of Pearl Harbor. In one case they didn't even know where it is. Unfortuneately there are not too many of us left to tell about it. Of the 16.2 million that served in WW II there are only about 2.9 million left, and dying at the rate of 12 to 15 hundred a day. Won't be long and there will be no more eye witnesses left to the greatest armed conflict in the history of man kind - or, to be politically correct - woman kind.

]]> ~jonjac http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/10058680/ http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/10058680/ Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:58:24 PDT
What I have done, recently, is put them on a CD-R. Also added a WW II history of my old outfit the 3rd Bomb. Gp., aka 3rd Attack Gp. aka "The Grim Reapers". Plus my Memoirs of my four years in WW II. I don't know if it is legal to hawk one's wares on this website, it it isn't I expect I will find out. For anybody tat might beinterested log onto the following link for details:
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Jack Heyn ]]> ~jonjac http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7670773/ http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7670773/ Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:59:06 PST
Since I've had a camera in my hand since I was 16 years old, and pictorials have always been my first love; and since I have a collection of over 600 images from my four years in WW II - I could continue adding for quite a while. But I wouldn't want to wear out my welcome, so this is it. I have enjoyed the experience and the feedback comments I have been getting. I would hope that they would continue to come, and I will be watching for them. Thus far I haven't made replys to the comments, might have to start doing that.
Jack Heyn ]]> ~jonjac http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7621712/ http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7621712/ Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:03:31 PST
These photos will not depict the blood and gore of war time. Rather they will show the every day, activity of one insignificant citizen soldier in the Air Force in the S.W. Pacific. Let me make it clear that there is a vast difference between the every day life of an Air Force ground crew man and a U.S. Infantry man or a U.S. Marine. We had to live in the unfriendly environs of a tropical rain forest ; they had to live and fight there. Having walked thru the aftermath of some of their jungle battles, I have the greatest respect and admiration for the Infantry and the Marines. New Guinea was known by those who spent time there in WW II, as the "Green Hell". The Infantry and Marines will vouch for that.

There was another big advantage to being in the Air Force. When you lost a good friend (I lost 3 tent mates and 3 photographer buddies) it was not as traumatic. They just climbed aboard one of those Magnificent Flying Machines and flew off into oblivion. You didn't share a fox hole with them and see them get their head blown off with a mortar shell. They were just as dead; they would never marry a beautiful young lady, raise a beautiful family and celebrate a Golden Wedding anniversary - but you didn't have to witness it. ]]> ~jonjac http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7559214/ http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7559214/ Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:31:57 PST
For over half a century most Veterans didn't talk about the war and their experiences. Today more of them are losening up and talking about it. Thanx to the internet and many WW II websites younger generations are getting eye witness accounts of bits and pieces of WW II. Since there are only about one fourth of those Veterans still living, and they are dying at the rate of about 12 to 15 hundred a day, it won't be long until there will be no more eye witnesses.
Jack ]]> ~jonjac http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7526270/ http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7526270/ Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:16:31 PST Jack ]]> ~jonjac http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7521018/ http://jonjac.deviantart.com/journal/7521018/ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:49:56 PST
In Aug. 1941 I enlisted in the Army Air Corp to go to their Photography School at Lowry Field in Denver. When I finished basic there were no openings at the school, so I was sceduled to go in Jan. '42. In the meantime I was assigned to Hq. Sq., 3rd Bomb. Gp. at Savannah Army Air Base. Having some typing skills I was put in Gp. Operations as a Clerk Typist.

Dec. 7, 1941 had a profound effect on a lot of lives, not the least of which was mine. Instead of attending school in Jan. '42 I boarded the USS Ancon along with the 3rd Bomb. Gp. in Frisco headed for points unknown. Ended up in Brisbane, Aust. which started a 3 year stint in the S.W. Pacific which took me the lenghth of New Guinea and to two Islands in the Pillipines. After a year of clerking I did get into Photography and got on-the-job training.

After returning to the States in Mar., 1945 I was reasigned to Page Field, Ft. Meyers, Fla. There I met a CAA radio operator who was to become my wife, Jonnie. We were married Dec. 10, '45, and in Jan. '46 I attended the School of Modern Photography in N.Y. City. Which started a 33 year career in Photography. The last 23 years I had my own studio in Des Moines, Ia. Sold the studio in 1979 and we moved to Denver where I went to work for J.C. Penney in the camera dept. Moved back to Des Moines where the kids and gr'kids were, and continued working for J.C.P. until this past Dec. when my health forced me to give it up.

My first love in Photography has always been pictorials. Unfortunately there is little market for them, so to support a family my work consisted of commercial work and weddings. Never did delve into portraiture, except my brides. In 33 years I was involved in approximately 4000 weddings.

Being a bit of a computer dummy, if I can figure out how to get the job done, I'm thinking of posting some of my pictorials on this website. To date I haven't figured it out, and my mentor hasn't coached me on it as yet. But I expect he will, and then I may add to this Journal.
Jack Heyn ]]> ~jonjac