Major George E. Kinback Jr

Maj.George E. Kinback, Jr. and Doris Wright Kinback in their wedding picture January 1,2002 and Captain George E. Kinback, Jr. in Vietnam, 66-67. George and Sue Kinback 1964 and Doris and Gilbert Wright 1968. Sue died 2001, Doris had been divorced for 25 years. Both couples had been stationed at same location throughout the years but had never met. George and Doris met 2001 and married 2002. George writes, Two Important Women In My Life, in the book.

George had written chapters for his book for many years and was saving completed chapters on his computer. When he realized he was terminal in January 2006 he said my book will never get published. One of my last promises to him was "I will publish your book". He passed away January 6, 2006. I searched his computer and Tell Me A War Story was self-published by me in October 2006. George was/is a great writer and made you feel you were there in each story.

About: This book is a compilation of individual stories from my experiences as an Army Aviator and instructor pilot during the period from 1956 to 1973. The venues are Central and South America, Korea, USA, Japan and Vietnam.

A chapter about the flood relief effort he helped with in Nicaragua in 1960 and was awarded "The Distinguished Service Cross-Nicaragua", a chapter about assignment in the mountainous jungles of northwestern Panama assigned to the 937th Engineer Company (Aviation) a supporting element of the Inter-American Geodetic Survey (IAGS) about cartographic surveyers often spending weeks or months on isolated mountaintops measuring angles and gathering mapmaking data that is now provided in minutes using modern GPS instruments. Four chapters about service in Vietnam and was awarded "The Distinguished Flying Cross" and "The Bronze Star Medal" and a chapter about." Iced up over Tennessee". This chapter interested the owner of The Community News newspaper, Aledo, Texas, and Randy Keck asked permission to place the chapter on their website. It is copyrighted and I gave him permission.

General Information: The book is available for order at www.amazon.com

Biography: I graduated from Johnstown High School on June 4, 1948 and joined the Army in 1948, taking basic training tests at Ft Dix, NJ and completed basic training at Ft Devins, MA. Military assignments were in the United States and several foreign countries. Some of the locations stationed were New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Colorado, Wyoming, Indiana, California, Maryland, Central and South America, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and lastly to Ft. Rucker, Alabama to retire from the Army in 1968 with the rank of Major and I was a Senior Army Aviator, an instructor pilot in fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, a standardization instructor pilot (I trained instructor pilots), an instrument instructor in fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft and an Instrument Flight Examiner in both categories. I was officially qualified in several fixed wing aircraft types and virtually all helicopters of that period from single-engine observation types to multi-engine cargo types.

I also picked up the First TH-13T (Tail # 64-17845) at the Bell Helicopter Plant at Fort Worth, TX., January 7, 1965 and flew it to the Fort Rucker, Alabama military base.

ISBN ISBN: 1-4196-4827-6 ISBN-13: 978-1419648274

Publisher www.booksurge.com

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