Frank A. Tinker

My Uncle Frank & Aunt Nancy would visit us in the summers
on his way to see his war buddies . He rarely talked of the war.
He flew for the USGS mapping the volcanoes in the PNW .
Also he was a boraide (fire retardant ) bomber pilot and flew for the US Forest Service with smoke jumpers..
Many years ago (30) he would tell me how he and my aunt would do
border patrols in AZ. on horseback and about the smugglers and illegal boarder crosser's.
Hope you have...

Libby, Margie, Buddy -- my most sincere condolences. You all were such a part of us, the Flannerys, in those early years. It's hard to imagine that your unbroken father is gone. I was reading Unbroken and had just called my dad, John, to tell him that I had just come across the references to your father when he shared the news of Frank's illness. Serendipity is sometimes as sad thing. much affection to you all, colleen flannery (homeless now and heading west to visit my own parents)