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Bennington CAP Cadets Attend 1962 Summer Encampment in Maine
Nine Bennington CAP cadets joined 187 other Vermont New Hampshire and Maine cadets at the 1962 CAP Summer Encampment at Loring Air Force Base Limestone Maine in late June. Senior officers accompanied them and cadets took part in C 1238 orientation flights target practice radar guided missile demonstrations and visits to the 27th Fighter Interceptor Squadron. They also studied survival training sentry dogs flight simulators control tower safety and base facilities and two weeks featured a Grand Falls Canada trip a retreat ceremony a full dress parade and a cadet club dance.
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Bennington Squadron
Civil Air Patrol
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
CAP
Loring Air Force Base
Limestone
Bennington
Doris Bushey
Dennis Denio
Daniel Duprat
Neil Hanlon
Thomas Kinney
John Lindley
John Moore
Nelson Pellerin
Curtis Poirot
John McHugh
Harold Field
John Bertoli
CWO
Steven Gleba
U.S. Air Force
Air Force
Loring
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Grand Falls
Canada
27Th Fighter Interceptor Squadron
Loring Afb
Armed Forces
Huge Loring AF Base
Williamstown
Mass