[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember flying out of Okinawa refueling B-52s. Looking out the left window, you could see two B-52s being refueled in the distance. Same out the right window. Then there was the one WE were refueling.
Our aircraft was a KC-135Q. We called it the “queer” model as it had special tanks to refuel the SR-71 and could still do Bombers and fighters.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I did a series of interviews for our local paper's Nov. 11th edition last year. One guy had joined the AF as an enlisted man, was crew chief on a B-26 over Korea, was shot down and survived nearly three years in a NK POW camp.
After the armistice, he came home, re-upped and was given the opportunity to take real pilots training. He passed all the tests, and received his 2nd Lt. commission the same day he married his sweetheart.
He did tours in Florida, Beale AFB and retired from the IG’s office.