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George Wells

George Wells wrote about his 40-year aviation career in It’s That Way Everywhere, George, published in 2008.

An F-104D from the 479th Wing, and the author in Vietnam, with a backdrop of Southern Spain.

“Free Beer for the Americanos”

Digging out a crashed F-104 in a Spanish village in 1964, I made some unexpected friends.