Tinkertown: A Wheatfield, an Airbase, and Us tells the unique story of the founding and first three decades of both Tinker AFB and Midwest City, Oklahoma, and the role its founder, W.P. ‘Bill’ Atkinson played in harvesting a city out of cropland in But it is also a human drama, told through the eyes of the author and his friends who grew up there in the early years from the 1940s to the 1970s. It is an anecdote driven story that addresses a key question in life: How much of who I am is where I’m from? The story of both the base and the city are brought up to the present day in the final two chapters.
Table of Content
Foreword (by General Roger Brady)
Prologue: Blending History and Memoir
Chapter 1: The Coming War and the Need for Tinker
Chapter 2: A Very Thematic Man and his City of Tomorrow
Chapter 3: New Kid in a New Town
Chapter 4: Growing up in Tinkertown
Chapter 5: The Risks We Took
Chapter 6: Just Look at our Names
Chapter 7: The Ups and Downs of School
Chapter 8: Moving Toward Maturity
Chapter 9: A Monochrome Town Finds Diversity
Chapter 10: Keeping the Planes Flying
Chapter 11: Fighting to Save Tinker
Chapter 12: Tinkertown Today
Chapter 13: Bittersweet Homecomings
Appendix: Selected Chronology of Events
Chapter Notes
Bombers Codas I & II
Index by Chapters
About the Author
About the author
Jim Willis is a veteran journalist and author of 18 books. He grew up in the town he writes about here, and he holds the Ph D in journalism from the University of Missouri.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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