Flying from his home field near Dallas to Perrin Air Force Base near Sherman. Texas Air National Guard Major Harry C. Knickerbocker Jr. hoped to obtain some used ground-training equipment for his outfit's F-86 jets. Knickerbocker would be welcome to the equipment, said a Perrin officer, except that it was being used "by the class with the Yugoslavs in it." Recalls Knickerbocker of that late September incident: "It didn't hit me for a few minutes. Then you might say I got a real jolt."
Knickerbocker's jolt led him to write a letter to Texas' Republican Senator John Tower, protesting "a treasonous...
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