Brian Keith Posted July 20, 2018 Share #1 Posted July 20, 2018 Cut and past below: By Neil Genzlinger July 19, 2018 Adrian Cronauer, the disc jockey whose story provided the rough outline for the character played by Robin Williams in the 1987 movie Good Morning, Vietnam, died on Wednesday in Troutville, Va., He was 79. His death was announced by the Oakeys funeral service. The notice did not give a cause. Mr. Cronauer was in the Air Force in 1965 when he was sent to Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City). His first job was as news director for Armed Forces Radio there, but when the morning hosts slot became vacant shortly after his arrival, he settled in behind the microphone. The show was called Dawn Buster, and he began it with the drawn-out greeting immortalized in the movies title. He had actually developed the sign-on thousands of miles away, while stationed on the island of Crete, where he had also had a radio show. I said, Good morning, Iraklion, because it was Iraklion Air Station, an Air Force facility near the capital, he told CNN in 1995. LIFER made a note in the Movies section. BKW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Keith Posted July 20, 2018 Author Share #2 Posted July 20, 2018 I met him at a VN Vet's reunion many years ago, then again when we had him as our Annual Meeting Speaker for a museum I'm associated with. He said about the only thing actually true in the movie was that he was an AF enlisted man on Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam and did use that intro. Nice guy, sad he passed. Here is a photo of a tape he signed for my daughter Christina. BKW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skypilot6670 Posted July 20, 2018 Share #3 Posted July 20, 2018 May he Rest In Peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntssurplus Posted July 20, 2018 Share #4 Posted July 20, 2018 RIP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 20, 2018 Share #5 Posted July 20, 2018 Oh for pete's sake, sorry to here this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerialbridge Posted July 20, 2018 Share #6 Posted July 20, 2018 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patches Posted July 20, 2018 Share #7 Posted July 20, 2018 Cronauer before the service A great page on him. https://www.afvnvets.net/pho-sto---cronauer.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted July 20, 2018 Share #8 Posted July 20, 2018 Adrian Cronauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navybean Posted July 20, 2018 Share #9 Posted July 20, 2018 RIP sir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobgee Posted July 20, 2018 Share #10 Posted July 20, 2018 R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patchcollector Posted July 21, 2018 Share #11 Posted July 21, 2018 Great pic of him rocking his Raybans.Of all the jobs to have in Nam I think that his would've been the coolest.I'm sure that his show helped a lot of Service people retain their sanity.Rest in Peace Hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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