I Give You Captain Dennis Mitchell, Callsign “Shamrock”

After graduating from the University of North Carolina, my Dad enlisted in the Air Force. He got his wings while stationed in Hondo, Texas. Hondo Air Base was a USAF Air Training Command base, with a Pilot Training Squadron training pilots in T-28s, and T-33s. Most of Dad’s students would likely go on to fly missions in Vietnam.

Dad flew the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

Mom pins Dad’s wings on him at his graduation.

A fly-by over downtown San Francisco