This site is dedicated to the 32 year career of
Colonel Robert R. Mendonca - USAF
The links below are different deployments with photos.
Colonel Robert R. Mendonca - USAF
The links below are different deployments with photos.
Let me start by saying Dad didn't ask me to put all these photos up on the web. I did so myself as I wanted a web project to work on and thought it would be a good one. Maybe some of his old Comrades will find these while searching and enjoy them as well.
Dad was 20 years old when he enlisted in the Air Force in 1951 as an Airman at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. Next came Aviation Cadet training where he graduated in December 1953 as a 2nd Lieutenant pilot. He served 30 years as a Commissioned Officer (+ 2 years enlisted) and retired in January 1984 while at the Pentagon. During this time he met Mom and they married on September 13, 1958. She was given her own assignment raising 5 kids.
Mid 1960's.
Dad was delivering antibiotics from Stewart AFB to Lexington Kentucky for a person in need. He landed in Louisville instead because of bad weather where he met a state trooper who finished the delivery. Photo is from a newspaper article.