Harvey Rapp’s job was to keep the biggest bomber this nation ever built in the air. The B-36 was an eight-engine Goliath that could fly non-stop from anywhere in the United States to Europe drop its bombs and return without refueling.
Tagged General Curtis Le May
Brig. Gen. Neil Kennedy provided flying gas station in Vietnam and for SAC
Capt. Neil Kennedy flew a KC-135 jet tanker in Vietnam War and continued to pilot the same flying gas station for the Strategic Air Command after the Southeast Asian war. He retired in 1991 as a brigadier general after 32 years of service in the U.S. Air Force and the Air Force National Guard and moved to Calusa Lakes subdivision in Nokomis, Fla.
Sgt. Gil Rynex of Lakewood Village was the luckiest soldier in the U.S. Air Force
Former Sgt.Gil Rynex believes he was just about the luckiest soldier in the United States Air Force during the Korean War.
