A U.S. Navy destroyer visited Tripoli about that same time period - I think it was USS John Paul Jones - I might be wrong on the name.jimlongley wrote:No, I was aboard ship, making a "diplomatic" visit to Tobruk. We were supposed to receive a visit from the king or prince or something, but he sent a group of representatives including his head military attache. When the overthrow happened several of us noted who was involved and that we had seen him on our ship.Pete92FS wrote:You must have been stationed at Wheelus AFB? I graduated from Wheelus HS in '69 and my Dad luckily got trasferred out of Tripoli 6 weeks before that boob overthrew the king. We lived there for 4 years and it actually wasn't a bad place to live until the Colonel took over.jimlongley wrote:And to think, I stood just feet away from him, in 1968, with an M1 Garand in my hands.
Who knew?
I was on the honor guard, my Garand was not loaded.
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You must have been stationed at Wheelus AFB? I graduated from Wheelus HS in '69 and my Dad luckily got trasferred out of Tripoli 6 weeks before that boob overthrew the king. We lived there for 4 years and it actually wasn't a bad place to live until the Colonel took over.jimlongley wrote:And to think, I stood just feet away from him, in 1968, with an M1 Garand in my hands.
Who knew?