-
Recent Posts
- The POWs come Home and we welcome one January 24, 2023
- Greeting the Future in Times Square December 29, 2022
- Up in the Air So Blue October 14, 2022
- 60th Reunion August 9, 2022
- Silver Wings July 25, 2022
Subjects
-
Join 144 other subscribers
Copyright notice- An American Family, 2013- 2023
© John Norvell
Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited.
Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to John Norvell and an American Family with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Category Archives: Alaska
Stolen Valor
There has been a lot in the news lately about celebrities and politicians who inflated their participation in combat. Others, who were never in the military, passed themselves off as veterans. This has been called “Stolen Valor.” But in a … Continue reading
Posted in Air Force, Alaska, American History, F-4 Phantom II, Family History, Fighter Aircraft, Military history, Stolen Valor, Veterans, Vietnam War, World War Ii
Tagged Air Force, Alaska, Chuck DeBellevue, F4 Phantom II, Military history, POWS, Roger Locher, Stolen Valor, The Right Stuff, United States Air Force, Vietnam War
Leave a comment
Breaking Up (in Alaska) is hard to do
In Alaska, when we lived there, the end of winter was known as “breakup.” Now in some minds that might mean the thawing of the state’s rivers. In fact the thawing of the Yukon was a major event, which often … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska, Alaskan Air Command, American History, Anchorage, Anchorage Alaska
Tagged Air Force, Alaska, Alaska Breakup, Anchorage
Leave a comment
Sliding on the Ice II
In 2007 we returned to a very different Alaska than the one we had left 30 years earlier. In many ways, Anchorage had the same old small town feeling, but now it was a large city with much more traffic. … Continue reading
Sliding on the Ice
Following Thailand, we moved to Anchorage Alaska, where we lived from 1974-1978, and where I flew air defense missions intercepting Soviet aircraft off the coast. Alaska was a wonderful assignment for many reasons: the flying was magnificent, the people were … Continue reading
Posted in Air Force, Alaska, Alaskan Air Command, Alaskan glaciers, American History, Anchorage, Anchorage Alaska, Portage Glacier, Sliding on the ice
Tagged Air Force, Alaska, Alaskan Air Command, Anchorage, Aurora Borealis, climbing on the ice, Glaciers, Matanuska Glacier, Northern lights, Portage Glacier
Leave a comment
Alaska and Earthquakes
2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the great 1964 earthquake that hit Anchorage, Alaska. Many folks in Anchorage called it the Good Friday Quake because it hit the city on March 27, 1964. It lasted three minutes and was the … Continue reading
Posted in Air Force, Alaska, American History, Anchorage, Earthquake, Norvell Family History
Tagged Alaska, Anchorage, Earthquake
2 Comments
An American Family 