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High Desert Hangar Stories with Bob Alvis
Special to Aerotech News Deutschendorf was sent out to Ed- lope Valley to retrieve his son. Taking to John Denver.
wards with the B-58 Hustler and would him back home, Junior tried hard to Imagine that the “Thank God I’m a
Maj. Henry J. Deutschendorf was engage in several world speed attempts follow in his Dads footsteps but it was
a U.S. Air Force pilot who served in to put the United States at the top of never to be. He never lost his love of Country Boy” in reality had a life that
World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the the pyramid in the world of aviation. flying and the desert and he would be- would have shocked many of his fans
Cold War. come a pilot like his father himself, but who probably thought he had a Rocky
His son John would end up going to not flying supersonic jets but simple Mountain upbringing and not that of
A four-war pilot, he started his jour- school on base and making friends as a bi-planes and many times drawing on an Air Force dependent traveling from
ney as a bomber pilot and would oc- traveling Air Force brat with the other that experience to motivate him on Air Force base to air force base .
cupy that role for his time serving in students in the early 1960s. his new found path in life, dancing in
the Air Force. the clouds’ free as a bird and singing As his song goes “ He was born in
Junior was attached to the desert about it! the summer of his 27th year” I think
Starting his family in 1943, married and his new-found friends, but as life that’s about the time he said good bye
to his bride Erma she gave birth to a in the Air Force usually turns out, the Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., Air to his previous life and embraced his
boy whose name would follow that of Deutschendorf family found them- Force dependent, base traveler and new found life in entertainment and
his Father with the added ‘Junior.’ selves back in Texas. desert rat, would become a country the spot light.
boy and lover of the Rocky Mountains
Deutschendorf Senior and his son John wanted no part of that and so when he took his passion for music Till next time, Bob out and “Thank
were on a collision course with Ed- he found his way back here to the An- and nature and then changed his name God” I’m a desert boy!
wards Air Force Base and would oc- telope Valley and his friends.
cupy a spot in its history for a couple
of years. Henry Sr. was having nothing to do
with that either and commandeered a
While stationed in Texas, Major friend’s jet and flew out to the Ante-

A B-58 Hustler bomber.

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