Fred King:  

After moving from Noblesville in 1960 and graduating from Silver Creek in 1962, I enlisted in the Air Force served as a Flight Line Controller in SAC in Missouri also USAFE in Europe, Africa; Middle East; Turkey; Greece including Libya before we were kicked out. Assigned to the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing and attached to NATO as a member on a special Recovery Team for F-105 aircraft. Whenever any of our aircraft landed at any NATO base that didn't have F-105 supply parts or equipment, our recovery team had to recover the aircraft. I served in the role as liaison between the NATO staff and our recovery team specialists, I learned French, German & Luxembourgish to fulfill the requirements for this duty. While in Europe I was stationed near the Battle of the Bulge area explored WW2 Bunkers and Battlefields, recovered Allied & Axis WW2 material and ammo near where "Band of Brothers" fought. Visited Paris many times also see the Stones in concert also London to see the Beatles in concert and other European capitals, experienced European lifestyles, see things written in history books, while some of my classmates had to deal with a certain nation in Asia. The only place I didn't get to visit before returning to the States was West Berlin and that was because of my security cleara...Expand for more