At the time we were operating out of K-9 otherwise known as ‘Pusan East and to us as Dogpatch. Company Grade officers were housed in tar-paper barracks with composition roofs built of wood from old bomb crates. Each of the buildings had four bays and each

I was finishing off my third phase of officer training at the School of Infantry in Camp Borden [Ontario], third phase. And when the war started in June [1950] we volunteered.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Navy Adm. James Winnefeld remembered the Korean War as the first time the world united under the banner of the United Nations to stand up to aggression and support the rule of law.

When I first read "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" I was not a pilot. Years later I reread it and winced at the author relating how he forgot to lower his flaps to the take-off setting and took off no-flaps from the Hornet. Months of intensive training in shor