Most of my really neat stories (to me) come from my grandpop.
Dad periodically sends me an email when he happens to remember a particularly interesting story
At another time in the late 50s, Grandpop was (I believe) the Vice Commander at Aviano Air Base. Chuck Yeager and his team were doing PR tours or some such and they came through Aviano. They got all sorts of shitfaced at the Officer's Club on base, started wrecking up the place. The MPs showed up at grandpop's house and asked him to come down. Grandpop went down there and had all of them taken into custody and put under house arrest for the duration of their stay.
Dad periodically sends me an email when he happens to remember a particularly interesting story
I once asked Pop where he was on December 7, 1941, when he heard about Pearl Harbor. (He graduated from his Army Air Corps Class in 1938.) He said he was sitting in his green Ford at the end of Miami Field runway, listening to the car radio. He immediately returned to the command center. Within a month he was stationed at MacDill in Tampa. In the next month he was transferred to Newport News Field, where he was in a position to decide on approving volunteers for the Doolittle raid in April. At Pop's memorial ceremony, I met the widow of one pilot whose application for the raid he denied, not because he wasn't capable, but because she came to Pop's office and begged him to not forward her husband's application. She was recently pregnant and feared for her husband's return. She said she didn't tell her husband about it until well after the war was over. He was majorly pissed when he found out.
At another time in the late 50s, Grandpop was (I believe) the Vice Commander at Aviano Air Base. Chuck Yeager and his team were doing PR tours or some such and they came through Aviano. They got all sorts of shitfaced at the Officer's Club on base, started wrecking up the place. The MPs showed up at grandpop's house and asked him to come down. Grandpop went down there and had all of them taken into custody and put under house arrest for the duration of their stay.