FAHS Alumni Parents

Please send in pictures and comments of your Parents! ...to Bruce70

At the Henninger Turm on Colleen’s graduation night photo by Colleen's dad

Kathy 67(Colleen's Sister), Colleen (Sullivan) Bullen, Rick Bullen 70 , Dolly Sullivan

Col. Robert E. Thacker

Col. Thacker back in the cockpit

I thought you might all enjoy seeing my latest acquisition...an original AAF photo of Bobbie's Dad's P-82. Let me know how this came through as well as the script on the back of the photo. Very proud of this one!

Dutch

P82 Betty Jo The amazing journey of Betty Jo

...My dad's rank at retirement was full Colonel.
He was a Lt. Colonel when he flew the Betty Jo.
The photos were taken by staff at the Air Force
Museum in Dayton, Ohio. He went back there a couple
of years ago and they allowed him to get back in the
cockpit of the plane he had made a world record in back
in 1947. It definitely was a special day for him.
- Bobbie Thacker

Col. Thacker, seen above on the left, standing on the wing of the F-82 "Betty Jo with co-pilot Lt. John Ard

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Greg Brown's dad - Red Tails and reconnaissance on the Soviet Border line

Pat Collins Miller

Bruce,
If you put our dads in, then the pages will overflow. But I guess they can do that in cyberspace! LOL

My mom is also a veteran. She was a Cadet Nurse in WWII, a specially created federal program to get more nurses trained during the war. In return for funds for school, the nurse had to work at least 6 months at a military hospital. She spent the spring and summer of 1945 working at McCloskey General Hospital, an Army facility in Temple, TX. I think its now a VA facility. Then she went in the Army Nurse Corp during the Korean War. Was a 1LT in an Evac Hospital at Ft. Hood and Ft. Sill. When I look at the pics from 1952, I have to smile. My mom looks funny in fatigues and combat boots. And the helicopter bringing in the tents for the hospital. The smell of the Army tents is something I always remember. I would know it blind folded!

I see I did not mention that Danny is an alum of Midwest City, OK HS. Midwest City is home to Tinker AFB...major logistics stuff...and experienced significant loss of home in our recent fires. He was the Army Brat in an Air Force town... I'm guessing that most Air Force Brats have heard of Tinker...

Thanks again!

Pat

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"I have enjoyed hearing about all you Camp King folks and your "spook" dads. My dad was a helicopter pilot and ran the the little Army Airfield in Frankfurt for a while, then was the XO of an Engineering Battalion in Hoechst (where we lived, along with the Chessnoes, Sharon Lambert and a few others whose names I can't remember. It was a small kaserne.
This is a photo of my dad in Flight school, 1945. He died in Alabama in 2004."

- Dan Tomberlin
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:56 AM
Subject: [fhs63-66] Dads

Service Patches

Chaplain Kenneth Garner

Father of

Kathy Garner '69, Bruce Garner '70

My dad's chapel at Chitose, Japan -- one of the few remaining structures' left 45+ years after. PX, snackbar, residences (except the CO's), original school -- all gone!

from Dutch Meeker '70

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Ben F. Meeker B-17, 24 missions MTO, ball turret gunner	Here's the crew...Dads kneeling, 2nd from left. Dutch

	Here's Dad's Bomb Group patch..."The Diamondbacks" This was his flight jacket patch, made of leather. He was with the 5th Wing, 15th AAF, 99th BG, 346th Sq in Foggia Italy.

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The B17 ball turret -- a cramped and cold home on long bombing missions. (Photos Bruce&Norman Garner)

from Nicki Chamberlin

...Here are the pictures of my parents. As you see, my mother was in the RAF.
Use what you want or all. One of them I had submitted to a magazine and got 2nd place...
Nicki

	1965
Leonia "Nina" Goetkint and William Wesley Williams, Jr., 1946

Mother and Grandfather click image to enlarge	click image to enlarge

...nicki, my dad was also in the mighty 8th! he still goes to reunions...their ranks are dwindling much too quickly...what is your dad's full name? i'll ask dad if he remembers him --Laura Baxter

William Wesley Williams, Jr. He was a Lt. stationed at Chelveston, England. If he knew my Dad, he probably knew my mother...Leonia "Nina" Goetkint who was a WAF in the Royal Air Force at the Embassy in England.. --Nicki

Lt. William Wesley Williams, Jr, (Standing far right) click image to enlarge		The Mighty 8th *image credit*

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