Work copy 1-20-16

85th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Roster

03-25-2016

This "long roster" contains bios, addresses, email, etc., of officer 
members of the 85th FIS at Scott AFB during its tenure there 1952 to 
1960. The status symbols are:  * = not found 
% = found in contact or deceased
Page 1 -- A thru K
Page 2 -- L thru Z

ALLEN, CARL D. 1/LT Spouse:

Phone:

Scott AFB, IL E-mail:

Status: * not found Last Contact: As of: 01/20/2016

85FIS 1954

AO2246104. Attached Intelligence officer.

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APPEL, ROBERT B. CAPT. USAF RET Spouse: Anne

3653 Saybrook Place Phone: 941-947-6331

Bonita Springs, FL 34134 E-mail:

Status: * not found Last Contact: '98 As of: 01/20/2016

85TH 1952/33

AO2223729. Pilot.

Vorhies..."Bob Appell was a pilot from 52-C and got out shortly after I got in the squadron. He is

retired in Florida.

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04-30-98 Letter:

May 1952-Sep 1953 - Attended jet transition training at Moody AFB, Valdosta, GA All weather

intercept training(F-94), Panama City, FL. Assigned to Air Defense Command, 85th Fighter Squadron at Scott AFB, St. Louis, MO flying F-51D.

Sept 1953 - June 1961 - Employed at Allison Division at General Motors Corporation, Indianapolis, IN. Continued flying(F-51D, F-86A) with Indiana Air National Guard(113th FIS) with my highest rank being Captain.

June 1961 - Aug 1965. Employed at Pontiac Motor Division of GM.

Aug 1965 - Nov 1988 - Worked on GM's corporation labor relations staff in Detroit, achieving postition of Director thereof, from 1980 to 1988, when I retired with 35 years service and moved to Bonita Springs, FL.

Married with three children and six grandchildren. I enjoy golf in the warm Florida sunshine.

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ARCHIBALD, ROBERT G. LTC. USAF(RET) Spouse: IRENE

2320 Olivet Lane Phone: 707-525-9771

Santa Rosa, CA 95401 E-mail: dragonfuel@aol.com

Status: % Last Contact: '06 As of: 01/20/2016

85FIS 1956

1987 address. A02207259. E-mail received 10-15-97 What a great idea and a nice surprise to hear from you. I wondered if anyone else felt nostalgic about the 85th. It was my first operational unit after flight school. I arrived at Scott in late April 1956 about the same time as Roger Lawrence, Roger Pile, Gemmill S. Davis, and PD Davis (you only list Pile and I from that group). I learned early that the guys with the most flying time got the best deals and became a time hog, flying the F-86, T-33, and the L-20; I quickly became an IP and got turned loose to fly cross-countries wherever I wanted, what a deal. The two Rogers and I lived in an apartment in base housing (forgotten the project name), I cooked and they washed, and we bought our booze from a wholesaler in East St Louis, a real scarry place then and now, we had an account as an annex of the Scott officers club. Following Scott I went to RAF Manston 514th FIS, then 512th FIS at Sembach (met Jim while he was still at Erding), bachelor slot to fly T-33's at Laon, then RF-101 in 18th TRS at Laon, F-106 in 329th FIS at George, AFIT on Long Island flying at Suffolk Co., 27th FIS at Loring in 106, Vietnam in RF-101 with 45th TRS at TSN, 20th TRS at Udorn, and 7th AF Hq, back to Hq ADC as F-106 flight test (put the gun in the six), RF-101 and RF-4 in 18th TRS at Shaw, 16th TRS at Shaw, 10th TRW at RAF Alconbury in RF-4. Last assignment as reliability engineer for Minuteman III and MX in SAMSO at Norton (additional duty as president of base aero club). I retired in 1976 and moved to Santa Rosa. After retirement I flew commuter airlines for a couple of years around the Bay Area. Became chief pilot of a flight school and in 1981 formed my own flight school, Dragonfly Aviation Inc., still in it although I don't instruct much anymore. Currently operate 8 planes (we had 18 at one time). I have done a lot of work with the Boy Scouts and raise a big garden and naturally drink a lot of wine. I married Irene while on Long Island. Our oldest son went to the Air Force Academy, flew A-10's at Alconbury, instructed in T-38's at Laughlin and Randolph, and now flys for Delta out of Salt Lake while living in Monument, CO. Our younger son never got much past solo but loved to work on planes in the shop, now is a computer technical illustrator in Silicon Valley.

Don, I am not sure whether we ran into each other at IPIS, I was in the first T-38 class at Randolph in summer of 1962. Keep up the good work. Irene and I are excited about next year in Santa Fe. I attend Recce reunions and part of a RAF Manston reunion, but no other fighter units. My address is correct.

Bob Archibald 707-525-9771(h), 707-575-8750(w), FAX 707-575-0390

Dragonfuel@aol.com

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09-25-2006 Irene and I will attend the reunion.

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BANCROFT, WILLIAM M. 1/LT. Spouse:

Phone:

Scott AFB, IL E-mail:

Status: * not found Last Contact: As of: 01/20/2016

85FIS 1959

AO3024614.

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BARBER, KENNETH H. Lt/Col (DEC) Spouse: Carolyn

39 Marland Road Phone: 719-630-3464

Colorado Springs, CO 80906 E-mail: rhkhb@juno.com

Status: % deceased 2013 Last Contact: '06 As of: 01/20/2016

85TH 1953/113TH 195

Transferred from 113th to 85th 31 Oct 1952. 01-23-1998 --

Following note from Dick Gruber. "Ken is(as of last year) living in Colorado Springs, CO. Phone: 719-630-3464 (residence), 719-599-0900(office)...President of The Rawhide Company, 5160 North Union Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80918-2046. 01-98 -- I(Don C.) called and talked to Ken. He may attend. Sent bulletin and he is to send bio soon.

05-30-1998 - Bio..I was commissioned at West Point in 1948 and graduated from Pilot Training Class 49-C. First assignment after flying school was in F-80's in the Phillipines. Went from there 64th Fighter Squadron, 18th Fighter Group to Korea in July 1950 at the beginning of the war. After completing 100 combat missions in Korea in F-51's and 4 months as a FAC at Inchon and Iwon, I reported to Scott AFB in the summer of 1951. As I joined the 113th, also flying Mustangs, I was declared "non-combat ready"! After indoctrination and numberous TDY's to stand alert for units gone to gunnery, I ended up back at West Point training for the 1952 Olympic Modern Pentathlon Team. From Scott, I went to Richards Gebaur at Kansas City being sent to the second class of F-86D's and being assigned TDY to Norton AFB to test hop F-86D's at North American and ferry them to squadrons all over the US. Great job! Was in flying safety at HQ, CADF with Sam Denmark and Joe McClure, and later as aide to M/G Jarred V. Crabb, one of the finest men I've ever known! Took time off to climb Mt. Ranier in 1954; climbed it again with my sons in 1979. From there to Military Studies at the brand new Air Force Academy, first in Denver then in Colorado Springs where I became involved in land development on the side. From there to the School for Latin America in Panama for 3 years as Director of Training and Deputy Commandant. Drove back over the rustic Interamerican Highway to missile development office(ADC) at Kirtland AFB.

Army War College at Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania followed by 3 years at Randolph in ATC IG rounded out my military career. Returning to Colorado Springs in 1969, I picked up where I'd left off in 1959 in land development and real estate. Formed "The Rawhide Co., Realtors in 1973 and have been involved in developing approximately 25,000 acres and over 4,500 lots around Colorado Springs, in the Colorado mountains and in Wyoming.

An avocational mountaineer, I've climbed all 54 of Colorado's peaks over 14,000'. My wife is Carolyn and we have two sons, Kenny and Doug, who work for me at Rawhide, and a daughter, Nancy, who skates around the world with Disney on Ice. She's presently the Wicked Witch of the West in Kenneth Field's "Wizard of Oz".

(Ed note: Ken sent picture of he and Jim Lee in Korea. In file).

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BARNABY, RICHARD E. 1/LT. Spouse:

Phone:

Scott AFB, IL E-mail:

Status: % Last Contact: As of: 01/20/2016

85FIS 1959

AO3058482.

05-13-2006: Is communicating with Maron Hagan.

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BENHAM, HAROLD N. COL. USAF(DEC) Spouse: Deceased

556 Prairie Road Phone: 316-322-9711

El Dorado, KS 67042-4028 E-mail:

Status: % deceased 2000 Last Contact: '98 As of: 01/20/2016

85TH FIS 1952-56/113FIS 1952

Transferred from 113th to 85th 31 October 1952.

Vita 1997 -

Navigator WWII in B-24's in South Pacific - 42 missions

Pilot training school class 52-C

1952-56 85th FIS. Captain. Flew P-51D/H and F-86D

1956-59 Commander, 326FIS, Landstuhl, Germany - F-86D

1959-61 Professor, Ball State University AFROTC

1962-65 Commander, LTC, 326th FIS, Richards-Gebaur AFB - F-102

1965-66 Senior Advisor, Col., 62nd VNAF Wing at Pleiku and Nha Trang. 227 missions in

A-1H...220 were not worth the effort to climb into the A-1, let alone gas and bombs.

1966-67 USAF Inspector, Norton AFB.

1967-69 Commander 343rd Fighter Group, Duluth, MN - F-106

1969-70 Vice Commander and Commander 34th Air Division, Goose Bay

1970-73 Vice Commander, 24th Air Division, Great Falls, MT.

1973-74 Hall Monitor, Chidlow Building, Colorado Springs, CO.

1974 Retired 1 April 1974 before they would have kicked me out(10 Sep 74).

1974-76 Superintendent in construction in Colorado.

1976-78 Senior Project Engineer, Saudi Arabi Airfield.

1975-95 Part owner SW Services FBO, Houston, TX

1995 Retired...

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MAIL 10-13-97. Don...I had already given Vorhies addressess and phone numbers of the ones I had corresponded with and you have them in your list. I am looking forward to the reunion where ever it might be. Enclosed..a few stamps to help you out. Ben.

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03-24-2006

Harold N. "Ben" Benham, 81, of El Dorado , died Tuesday,Oct. 17, at Susan B. Allen Hospital . Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, at Kirby-Morris Funeral Home. He was born Aug. 11, 1919 to Corbin and Alice (Stewart) Benham in Knox County , Ind. He had lived in El Dorado since 1996, coming from Green Valley , Ariz. He was married to Dorothy Graham. He was a retired colonel in the United States Air Force. He was a veteran of World War II and the Vietnam War. During World War II, he was a navigator on a B-24, having served in the South Pacific. He was a member of the V.F.W. and the American Legion. In 1977, he set a record for an around the world flight in a single engine airplane.

One of his proudest moments came when he commissioned his son, Brady, into the Air Force.

Survivors include: sons, Major Brady Nolan Benham, M.D. of O'Fallon, Ill., and Bruce Baron Benham of Scottsdale, Ariz.; brothers, Corbin Benham of Mulvane and Tim Benham of Wichita; and eight grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the World War II Memorial, in care of Kirby-Morris Funeral Home, which has the arrangements.

Taken from El Dorado Times, El Dorado, Butler Co., Kansas Oct. 19, 2000

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