Bill Simons Email: bsimons@pics.com
Fort Devens June-November 1959.
Got drunk, passed the code test, got my diploma.
Sinop Turkey, TUSLOG Det.#4 December 1959-December 1960
Lots of mud, and primitive conditions.
Bunked in with Bill Barbeau, Gary Teske, Ernie Armstrong, Chuck Fischer,
Bob Palm, Charlie Trull,
EM clubbed with Walter Stanton and John Willemsen.
13th USASAFS, Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, England December 1960-April 1962.
Served with Joe Kryska, Jack Goy, Art Krieger, Tim Bundy, Dick Meyer,
John Dyer, Bill Billingsley, John McGhee and Richard Stewart.
I was personally extended by JFK for a couple of extra months because
of some problem with the Russkies in Berlin. Married a girl from Harrogate.
Tried Graduate School at Penn State (hopeless) and have been working for
a Chemical Publications firm in Philadelphia for the past 34 years.
I had two younger brothers in the ASA as well. John Simons went the
full 20 and is now retired in CA, baby brother Walter was a one termer
and has taken up farming in central Pennsylvania.
If anyone served with me, get in touch, I have stories and pictures to share.
