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USAF Pilot Training Class 52-H
William Sandlin
Hondo Williams
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I had a wonderful time
helping this squadron form. We took over the old Airline Terminal at the
northwest side & I became a cleaner upper & carpenter. My very first Squadron
Commander, Major Hugh “Slip” Slater & I got along famously. Just think - the Air
Force paid me to shoot skeet & furnished the ammo & targets. Because I had been an
aircraft mechanic, I was given an additional duty as the “Assistant Maintenance
Officer.” I enjoyed joining our mechanics & helping them mechanic our aircraft. After a
year or two we were re-equipped with F-86Ds & became an “All Weather Unit” at On
September 23, 1955; I married a Mexican-American, Pima County Sheriffs Deputy
My goodness, this made our marriage very
interesting. I proposed during her very first flight aloft. I left the
Air Force on December 19, 1955 & joined American Airlines on February 7, 1956,
with 1,590 logged flight hours. After completing training at This
resulted in the “only”;
Yankee Sandlin, when our first was born in Early
1959, we moved to the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex. After accumulating 29,604
logged flight hours, I retired December 28, 1988 & started visiting the
localities I had viewed from the air, via motorcycle. For a
fellow that didn’t leave Looking back on it, my time with you’all was tops. |
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