I Got The T-Shirt
After my post about the day trip that Rob and Leeane took us on up to Mundaring Wier, Barry, our "younger brother", asked if I got a Bibbulmun Track t-shirt for the minimal distance I managed to log on the track (i.e., 5 meters +/-). As you can see, yes I got my shirt thanks to Don. Now I have to figure out how I'm going to log the remaining 999.9 kms.
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OK Bob,
You have the "T" Shirt. now can you put aside about 55 Days to walk the track with you OLDER Brother and younger other brother?
Onya Mate
Barry, the other brother
May 16, 2009 at 3:23 PMAmerican readers may not understand that Aussies have little perception of US history and of Bob's military antecedents. All could tell that from his age and obvious command presence that he was an individual of some importance: but who was this man?
One opinion was that Bob had been a class mate of Black Jack Pershing at West Point and had flown the first US Army helo in the raid on Veracruz in pursuit of Pancho Vila.
This was decried by others who believed that Bob was an ROTC graduate from UCLA where he had been a BMOC ( Big man on Campus) following in the footsteps of his older brother Don who was a failed imitation of Errol Flyn.
Thus Bob was most definately a 'Doughboy" in the 1st AEF and would have participated in some heavy action on the Western Front.
Bob himself was somewhat reticent about it all but occasionally mentioning "Syngman Rhee and me" in the same sentence which some took to mean that his early helo experience was in fact as an extra in M*A*S*H as a casevac pilot.
Aussies don't believe that Korea is located in California on the LBJ ranch.
When Vietnam was mentioned, Dien Bien Phu came up along with that colossus of aviators, Earth Quake McGoon. He had been at the same flight school as Bob and had passed out on the H-19 Chickasaw before switching to fixed wing to fly C-119's with the CIA. Bob denied all knowledge participation in black ops in Cambodia interdicting the HCM trail but his small good luck buddha gave him away on that one.
So, the enigmatic Capt'n Bob remains a man of mystery down under. Those unexplained gaps in his log book and visible flinching when Bay of Pigs is mentioned are all indicators of a hidden chapter in his aviation exploits.
Perhaps he will take the opportunity to tell all. Did he fly Jimmy Hoffa into exile in South America?
Will his book will reveal more detail?
Kiwi
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July 9, 2009 at 7:20 PM