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Bruce Gordon
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Bruce Gordon’s adventures with flying and the military started when he first was taken aboard the Pan American Clipper during its first flight to Manila in 1935. H...view moreAbout the Author
Bruce Gordon’s adventures with flying and the military started when he first was taken aboard the Pan American Clipper during its first flight to Manila in 1935. He saw planes flying low over his home in Honolulu on December 7, 1941, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He wore a life jacket as a 7-year-old refugee in a convoy from Honolulu to San Francisco. His junior high school years were in Hong Kong, where he heard stories of the Japanese conquest of the city. As the Chinese Communists approached Hong Kong in 1949, he was a refugee again, this time going to Massachusetts for high school and college.
After AFROTC and graduating from Tufts University, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and went to pilot training. He flew the T-34, T-28, T-33, T-37, F-86, F-100, F-102, and F-106. He often carried his camera in his cockpit and took some remarkable photographs as he flew in Alaska, Korea, and during his 132 combat missions in Vietnam.
After Vietnam, he put his experience with airborne radar to use at Air Force Systems Command at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, where he was in the Electronic Warfare Systems Program Office. An offer of good money took him to Saudi Arabia, where he managed a motor pool of 214 cars,56 buses, a “black fleet” of 8 limousines for VIPs, and three business jet aircraft. He returned to the USA and helped develop software systems to manage depot maintenance of Air Force aircraft and Army tanks.
He retired to Kentucky, where he is the proud patriarch of a family of his wife, three children and six grandchildren.view less
Books by Bruce Gordon
The Spirit of Attack: Fighter Pilot Stories The Nature of Nature: Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5