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Susan Helen Hauck
Ballard High School
Class of 1964
Susan Helen Hauck, 1964 high school graduation
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Susan Helen Hauck
Sue graduated from Ballard High School in June, 1964. At the time, her next of kin were her parents, Albert and Henryetta Schuett Hauck. Her service number is AF XXXXX.
Susan Helen Hauck
Year   Rank   Status
June, 1964 x x Graduated Ballard High School, Seattle, WA
June, 1968     Seattle Pacific University. From April, 1964 to April, 1968. Studied nursing.
1968-1969 x x *Flying Tigers Airlines. Flight attendant on commercial flights as well as numerous Vietnam flights for military personnel. Seattle to Anchorage to Japan. Through DoD, processed as Second Lieutenant in the US Air Force with paperwork via Travis AFB, CA.
date x Employment x National Bank of Commerce, Seattle, WA. Eventually became Rainier Bank. Supervisor. Introduced training program to include female employees.
December 17, 1972 x Family x Married Donald James Gerend in Seattle, WA.
December 24, 1975 x Family x Daughter Jennifer Rose Gerend born in Sammamish, WA.
May 29, 1967 x Family x Son Jason James Gerend born in Sammamish, WA.
date x Employment x Realtor at Windemere Realty.
October 22, 2022-present x Volunteer/date x Sammamish Friends, Sammamish, WA
2019-2023 x Volunteer/date x Sammamish Seniors Board, Sammamish, WA; 2019 to present.
Educational, Work, Volunteer, and Hobby Material to supplement chrono material in chart above.
Education (update for Sue)
Date x Department/Agency x Certification
Jun, 1968
x
Seattle Pacific University
x
Graduated
date
x
State of Washington, Department of Real Estate
x
Real Estate License
Work
1968-1969
x
Flying Tigers Airlines; Flight attendant
x
Certified flight attendant, etc.
date x National Bank of Commerce; eventually Rainier Bank x Supervisor
1973-1981
x
Part-time real estate agent
x
Real estate agent
1982-2023
x
Windermere Realty
x
Certified and licensed real estate agent
Volunteer Experience (update for Sue)
update for Sue
Hobbies
Grandchildren, hiking, traveling, photography; gardening, reading and more.
* Flying Tiger Line aka Flying Tigers.
Flying Tiger Line, also known as Flying Tigers, was the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States and a major military charter operator during the Cold War era for both cargo and personnel (the latter with leased aircraft). The airline was bought by Federal Express in 1988.
The company was started by Robert William Prescott. It was headquartered on the grounds of Los Angeles International Airport in Westchester, Los Angeles, California.

The airline was named after the Flying Tigers fighter unit of World War II, officially the 1st American Volunteer Group. Ten former AVG pilots, after returning to the United States in 1945, formed the Flying Tiger Line established on 24 June 1945 as National Freight Service known under the name of National Skyway Freight using a small fleet of 14 Budd Conestoga freighters purchased as war surplus from the United States Navy. The pilots and two ground crew provided half of the initial investment, with the balance coming from California oil tycoon Samuel B. Mosher. For the next four years, Flying Tiger Line carried air freight on contract throughout the U.S. and, as the airline expanded, carrying supplies to U.S. troops under Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the occupation of Japan.

In 1949, the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Flying Tiger Line the first commercial air cargo route in the U.S., a transcontinental route from Los Angeles and San Francisco, California to Boston, Massachusetts. Shortly afterward, the company began chartering passenger aircraft for group travel as well; its Lockheed Super Constellation, Douglas DC-4 and DC-6 fleet comprised the largest trans-Atlantic charter operation through the 1950s.

Flying Tiger Line adopted the Canadair CL-44 swing-tail aircraft in 1961, becoming one of the first carriers in the world to offer aerial pallet shipping service. In 1965, Flying Tiger Line began operating jet aircraft when on September, 27, the first (as N322F) of four Boeing 707 was delivered. The Boeing 707 remained in the fleet only few years, and later sold, upon arrival of the higher-payload Douglas DC-8, the largest civilian airliner until the Boeing 747 entered service. The first Douglas DC-8-63F registered as N779FT was delivered to the airline on June 26, 1968 and the other eighteen followed until 1972.[6]

In 1974, the airline took delivery of its first Boeing 747. The Flying Tiger Line then put in orders for brand new Boeing 747-200F freighters designated the Boeing 747-249F, which at the time were among the heaviest commercial airplanes flying, weighing in at 823,000 pounds (373,000 kg). These aircraft had the powerful "Q" (Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7Q) engines and heavy landing gear and could simultaneously carry both 250,000 pounds (110,000 kg) of fuel and 250,000 pounds (110,000 kg) of cargo loaded through both the nose door and the side door at the same time. Aircraft loaders had earlier refused to work at the extreme 30 feet (9 m) height necessary for loading freight on the upper deck, so the "supernumerary area" or "hump" was configured with 19 first class seats instead which were used to transport livestock handlers, charter agents and mechanics as well as dead-heading pilots and flight attendants.

Tiger's Ad Hoc Charter livestock flights provided airlift for exotic animals. Two examples were thoroughbred racehorses and show animals from Stansted, England to the Melbourne Cup, as well as breeding stock cattle (milk supply) to nations such as Japan and Thailand. They became known for carrying a number of unique cargoes, including Shamu the SeaWorld killer whale and the torch of the Statue of Liberty.

By the mid-1980s, Flying Tigers operated scheduled cargo service to six continents and served 58 countries. It surpassed Pan American World Airways in 1980 as the world's largest air cargo carrier after acquiring its rival cargo airline Seaboard World Airlines on 1 October 1980. It also operated military contract services, most notably DC-8 routes between Travis Air Force Base, California and Japan in the 1970s, followed by weekly 747 passenger service between Clark Air Base, Philippines, and St. Louis, Missouri via Japan, Alaska, and Los Angeles during the 1980s. Covert flights for the military were not uncommon throughout the airline's history, given its roots in Civil Air Transport (CAT), as with its sister airline Air America, originally owned by General Claire Lee Chennault, commander of the Flying Tigers fighter squadron in Southeast Asia.

At its peak, the Tigers employed approximately 251 flight attendants and carried up to a record 594 passengers and crew on its MAC all-coach passenger flights. Approximately 998 pilots worked for the airline based throughout the US. Large crew bases were situated at Los Angeles, New York City and Lockbourne, Ohio (Rickenbacker International Airport). The Los Angeles headquarters operation included its own engine shop and jet maintenance business. Flying Tigers also made livestock carriers for airplanes, some comparable in external size and shape to the standard AMJ container used in the FedEx flight operations. for the airline based throughout the US. Large crew bases were situated at Los Angeles, New York City and Lockbourne,

"Come Fly the World" by Julia Cooke contains prose noted below explaining military service by flight attendants.
Come Fly the World book cover; Julia Cooke Prose from "Come Fly the World" by Julia Cooke. Comments explain how any woman who crewed any commercial airline could qualify as a second lieutenant in the US Air Force when she crewed chartered or cargo flights into Vietnam. She was to also carry her Geneva Conventions identification card which would, if she was captured as a prisoner of the enemy, identify her as a prisoner of war. Quote from Julia Cooke's book below.
"....More planes were on their way. It was in the first months of 1966 that the Department of Defense committed to sending each soldier on five days of rest and recuperation during his twelve-month tour of duty. The only barrier standing between a GI and his respite from combat, officials reported, was a lack of transport planes. Pan Am president Harold Gray, in an act of corporate magnanimity that the company's PR executives ensured would be well covered in newspapers, offered the U.S. Government a bargain. For four months, Pan Am would fly eighteen hundred military passengers from Vietnam to Hong Kong and back and twelve hundred from Vietnam to Tokyo and back for just one dollar per month.
From the start, the media vaulted Pan Am's involvement in the war effort, though twelve other carriers also supplemented military aircraft with charter passenger and cargo flights to and from Southeast Asia. To every woman who crewed any airline into Vietnam, the U.S. Government issued a slip of paper that designated her a second lieutenant in the U.S. Armed Forces. Every stewardess was to carry her Geneva Conventions identification card at all times in case she was captured by enemy forces; it ensured that she would be treated as a prisoner of war."
Below: February 1, 1971 issued from Travis AFB, CA: Margaret's DoD US Air Force certification as a Second Lieutenant
Gerend/Hauck wedding photo
1968-1974: Flight Attendants' Memories Gerend/Hauck wedding photo
June 19, 2022; Sammamish at home September 24, 2019; Washington Coast
May 9, 2021; Sammamish, WA August 11, 2019; Europe with grandchildren July 23, 2019; hiking in Europe
Margaret Zomer Rosenow
Sammamish Boys & Girls Teen Center
Sammamish Seniors Developmental Group; February 6, 2020

Susan Helen Hauck
Certified Rank: WO through Captain
Second Lieutenant
US Air Force


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2nd Lieutenant US Air Force



Sue Hauck Gerend, Seniors, 2020

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Travis AFB, CA



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Has lived in Sammamish since 1995
Music: "Wind Beneath My Wings"
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