Contributed by Bob Davisson

Bob writes:
I do have a couple of comments about the article and the interviewed former airman ..... With reference to B-36`s "buzzing the base". I never saw a 36 the whole two years that I was there. On occasion, an F-86D or two out of either O`Hare, Chicago or Truax AFB, Madison, Wisconsin (we worked both regularly) would "dust off" the dome. The locals had mixed feelings about that as the immediate area is quite heavilly populated and has big lake resort developments; Lake Geneva, Delavan, Elkhorn, etc.

Yes, we all had off-base jobs in order to support our cars and our "social life". (My wife of 47 years is from Elkhorn, four miles away.) Being on a 24/7 three shift schedule, we would forego sleep and go to our jobs in town. Obviously, the C.O. was very liberal about all this. In the summer, all the resorts were flooded with neat gals out of Chicago 80 miles to the Southeast. I worked for a landscape company, a floor tile laying shop and the local telephone company as a lineman during my two years at the "Seven Double Nickel".

The nine prefab houses built in late 1954 were originally for NCO`s families as I recall. If they were for families of officer controllers, I don`t remember that.