Attention Former Norton Residents
Looking for the crew members and maintenance personnel from NORTON (63rd / 445th MAW’s) who were involved with the evacuation of Vietnam called Operation Frequent Wind, in April 1975 timeframe aboard C-141 Aircraft. These evacuees included American citizens, also Vietnamese-born US dependents, from Saigon which included at-risk Vietnamese personnel who were not American citizens.
POC is: CMSgt (Ret) Gil Vanegas,
Email: chiefvanegas@gmail.com
Cell Phone: 1-909-223-0944
Richard Mendoza,
E-Mail: rickmendoza@comcast.net
Cell Phone: 310-561-5653
History of
Norton Air Force Base
Norton Air Force Base (1942–1994) was a United States Air Force facility located in San Bernardino, California, in San Bernardino County.
For the majority of its operational lifetime, Norton was a logistics depot and heavy-lift transport facility for a variety of military aircraft, equipment, and supplies as part of Air Materiel/Air Force Logistics Command (1946–1966), then as part of Military Airlift/Air Mobility Command (1966–1994).
Norton Air Force
Base Museum
This mission of the Norton AFB Museum is to preserve, honor, and promote the history of the Norton Air Force Base.
