Eagles by Aircraft/Specialty
the F-106
Colonel Win E. DePoorter, a distinguished Command Pilot, served 28 years in the U.S. Air Force, accumulating over 6,500 flying hours. Commissioned in 1957, he made aviation history early in his career as the first pilot to successfully survive an ejection using the...
Maj Gen Donald W. Shepperd was born in San Antonio, TX in 1940 and graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1962. After graduation and pilot training, he was assigned to a fighter squadron in West Germany. After five years in the Air Force, Shepperd deployed to...
