People & Places
USAF Drum Line, Fall of 1958.
AF Pipe Band Piper Jim Neary, bass drummer Bill Semanek.
Sgt. Crawford gets a floral award after a Corps performance in Nagoya,Japan in 1957. Also visible, George Lucas, right, in beret, and Sonny Ball, left, with hand to face.
Rudimental bass drummer Jack "Rave on" McVaugh.
USAF Tom Gibbs and KB Oiler.
USAF Drum Corps, Bass drummer Jack McVaugh, pipers George Tierney, Denny Bliss, and George Lucas.
Jim Neary, Sandy Jones, and John Bosworth
USAF Drum Corps not a uniform in sight.
USAF Drum Corps drummers play for Kruschev's arrival. Snares from left, John Flowers, Rod Goodhart, Dick Filkins, Tom Bitner, Tony Firman, John Bosworth.
President Eisenhower and Premier Kruschev, 1959
John Bosworth with bass drum. The drum head was painted by Donna Neary., Piper is Doug Forbes.
The picture was taken at Yankee Stadium on 13 August 1952. From left to right; A /2c Rusty Brotherton. Hank Bauer, A/2c Marshall Smoot, Phil Rizzuto, A/1c Cy Wilson, Billy Martin, A/1c Bob Schwebke, and A/2c Mark Laird.
USAF Drum Corps, Members from York, PA, Back row frlom left, KB Oiler, Bob Reisinger, John Ruth, Kenny Yohe, Ray Myers. Front frow Dick Fllinchbaugh, Tom Gibbs, Rod Burg, Bob Zarfoss, Nevin Wise, Chuck Strausbaugh. CO, Lt. Daugherty.
USAF Drum Corps, Capitol Steps.
USAF Drum Corps, Drum Major Tony Lombardo. Drummers front row, left to right, Bob Zarfoss, Tom Gibbs, Roger Donahue, Jim Flinchbaugh, Rod Burg, Ed Brandt.
USAF Drum Corps, at Capitol.
USAF Drum Corps, Drum Major Tony Lombardo, CO Captain Ed Daugherty, Director Truman Crawford.
USAF Drum Line, from left front, Ray Kelly, "Figgy" Newton, Nev Wise, Ed Brandt, Peter DeGenova, John Moriarity, ??, Lynn Arceneaux, Bob Magee, Frank Mazzeo, Bob Cook, Swartz, Fick Flinchbaugh, Dick Scudder. Bass drummers, Leroy Carroll, Schwabe, Roger Donahue, Dick Firman. Cymbals, Roger Quriion, Chuck Strausbaugh.
USAF Drum Corps, Jefferson Memorial.
USAF Drum Line, Washington, DC, July 1961.
USAF Drum Corps, Bass Drummer Leroy Carroll and horn line in front Washington Monument.
USAF Drum Line in front of Washington Monument.
USAF Drum Corps pipers at Washington Monument.
USAF Drum Corps, leaders, from left, Bobby Felder, music director, Peter DeGenova, First Sgt., Bob Cook?, Captain Gall, unknown, Jerry Eaglin, Drum Major showing awards.
USAF Drum Corps drummers, in front of US Capitol. Drum Major Jerry Eaglin, bass drummer Rusty Brotherton.
USAF Bass Drummer Rusty Brotherton.
USAF Drum Corps members from York, PA.
USAF Drum Corps barracks life; members John Ruth and Dick Flinchbaugh, spitshining shoes.
USAF Drum Corps Members in Athens, Greece. Includes Corps leaders, front line from left, Truman Crawford, Corps Director, Mr. Kriebel, CO, and M/Sgt DeGenova, first sergeant.
USAF Drum Corps, Receiving trophy, Harvey Wolf and Corps Director Truman Crawford. 1963.
USAF Drum Corps, Bob Magee, tenor drummer and Truman Crawford, bass bugle, while on tour of Europe, 1955. AF bus.
USAF Drum Sgt. Lynn Arceneaux inspect Jim Flinchbaugh's drum. Drummers from right, Jim Flinchbaugh, Bob Zarfoss, Roger Donahue, Sonny Ball.
USAF Corps Dinner
USAF Drum Corps Leaders, somewehre in Europe. From left, Truman Crawford, director, Lt. Daugherty, CO, and drum major Tony Lombardo.
Truman Crawford, Bass Bugler, visits military cemetery in Europe, 1955.
USAF Drum Corps members in civvies, somewere in Germany, Facing the camera, left Larry Olds, soprano player, and tenor drummer Frank Mazzeo.
USAF Drum Corps members, walking through the medina in Rabat, French Morocco, 1955.
USAF Drum Corps, Director Truman Crawford dinner with a Geisha, somewhere in Japan.
Corps Director Truman Crawford adn Drum Major Tony Lombardo, with a Geisha.
USAF Dinner in Japan, CO Lt Daugherty.
USAF Drum Corps, original member Joe College, soprano player somewhere in Europe.
USAF Drummers, Top, Tom Gibbs, Dick Filkins, Lynn Arceneaux, and Rod Burg; Below, French horn players Bob Basch, Bob King, Warren "Cookie" Cooke, and Ed "Turk" Turocey.
USAF Drum Corps' big band, the Skylarks. Front row from left, Tony Lombardo,trombone, Bob Reisinger, sax, Kenny Yohe, sax, Eddie Kiefer, sax and director. Back row, Roger Quirion, bass, Chuck Strausbaugh, drums, and trumpets, George Whitten, Ray Myers, and Don Cohen.
USAF Drum Corps members, Dave Diener, KB Oiler, Bob Dietz, Jan Dunnick.
USAF Pipe Band drummers, from left, Steve Young, John Bosworth, Bill Semanek.
USAF Corps members Ralph “Coco” Corona and Dick Williams relaxing in New Orleans, 1951.
Mr. Lou Kriebel cuts a celebratory cake with an Airborne Colonel, Munich, Germany, 1958.
Bob Zarfoss, recently promoted to A/2C, 1955.
Some members of the USAF Drum Corps, prepared to march in a Halloween parade as part of the Chevy Cavaliers. 1957, Bolling AFB.
Dick Williams on drums, Sgt., later Mr. Ed Grace, and Colonel Weckesser, circa 1951 Bollling AFB, Washington, DC.
USAF Drum Corps drummers Rod Burg and Dick Flinchbaugh sample Weinerschnitzel in Munich, Germany, 1955.
USAF Drum Corps members swimming, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1962. Note that M/Sgt. Truman Crawford was in the pool fully dressed.
USAF Drum Corps members explore Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, 1957.
USAF Drum Corps Drummer Tom Gibbs atop the Pierre Hotel, Paris, France, 1956. The roof top was the site of numerous parties. Airmen Gibbs prevented an unnamed Airman from falling from the fifth floor of the hotel.
Members of the USAF Drum Corps take a break from a game of beer can football in the Atlantic Ocean near Nouasseur AFB, French Morocco.
USAF Drum Corps soprano player Ray Myers, along the Thames River in London, 1956.
USAF Drum Corps soprano player Jan Dunnick feels at home in Hawaii. Hickham Field, 1957.
USAF Drum Corps soprano player Jan Dunnick, Hickham Field, Hawaii, 1957.
The infamous Pyramid, Miami Beach, Florida, 1957. From bottom to top and left to right, Ron “Barney” Bair, George Whitten, Harvey Wolf, Tom Wolfe; Bob Zarfoss, Warren “Cookie” Cooke, Jim Flinchbaugh; Rod Burg, KB Oiler; David Ross-Robertson.
Three USAF Drum Corps members and roommates, from left George Miller, Eric Landis, and Chuck Miller. In the Orderly Room, circa 1961.
Former AF snare drummer Rod Goodhart judging the Chicago Cavaliers at VFW Nationals in Chicago, 1965.
Bob Zarfoss tying his tie in the barracks, 1955.
Relaxing on the tarmac, likely waiting for a plane to be repaired. From left, Bob Reisinger, Bob Zarfoss, Tom Gibbs, circa 1958.
Corps members exploring lava flow, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, 1957. With back to camera, George Lucas. Beside him, Dave Diener.