Jim Winchester

Slowly, in a small skiff, kicked along by an outboard motor, we pushed under Gandy Bridge in Tampa Bay, headed out toward Piney Point and a day’s fishing in the summer sun. Close overhead, a flight of transient B-66Bs climbed...

In the dimly lit café in Fairview, Mass., Mary Ann Hickey, a pretty blonde in a tight-fitting dress, had no trouble at all striking up a conversation with an off-duty airman from nearby Westover Air Force Base. As the evening...