Boyne had completed a career in the Air Force and Thompson had been born and bred in the service, as well as serving in it during the Viet Nam war. Boyne, then Director of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum and a columnist for AOPA Pilot at Thompson’s request, to join him in co-authoring a social history of the United States Air Force. The 1988 movie Honor Bound, directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Tom Skerritt, was based on Recovery, but not released in the United States after audience previews. Writing Īs an author, Thompson wrote five Cold War thrillers during the 1980s ( Recovery, Countdown to China, Bismarck Cross, Airburst and Top End), in which he explored such themes as the role of the US Military Liaison Mission in Potsdam, East Germany, in both clandestine intelligence gathering and in resolving East-West tensions, as well as the reunification of East and West Germany, the coming of the Islamic Jihad to the United States via general aviation aircraft used for terror, and the consequences of contracting to private companies the role of coastal surveillance. He holds a BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley and served in the US Air Force from 1968 to 1972. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, to career US Air Force pilot Major Ray Lynn Thompson (1921–1991) and his wife, Velma Mildred Thompson (1923–1991). Steven Lynn Thompson was born May 27, 1948, at Ft. Steven Lynn Thompson (born 1948) is an author, magazine journalist, historian of technology and former motorcycle racer. Laning Pepper (July 24, 1982–present).
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