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William B. Clark
William B. (Bill) Clark was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the shadow of the International Airport (LAX) in the community of Westchester. A product of Catholic schools and 50's Americana, Bill ...view moreWilliam B. (Bill) Clark was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the shadow of the International Airport (LAX) in the community of Westchester. A product of Catholic schools and 50's Americana, Bill achieved his life's dream of becoming a naval aviator shortly after his 1961 graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. After a combat tour in Southeast Asia in 1965 flying his beloved A-4 Skyhawk from the deck of the USS Midway, Bill spent the next three years in the desert as a weapons delivery test pilot at Naval Weapons Test Center in China Lake, CA.
Bill retired as a Captain in the U.S. Navy Reserves with a combined total of 30 years of active duty and reserve service, and some of his combat exploits were featured in the book Iron Hand: Smashing the Enemy's Air Defenses by A. Thornborough. Later, in Clover, South Carolina, spending his days writing and restoring old cars, an avid story teller who would often recount old sea stories as well as discuss his own fanciful ideas of a good yarn, Bill with the encouragement of his family and friends sat down and literally put pen to paper and wrote Interesting Times.
Bill passed away in 2009 of complications from a surgical procedure. He is interred with some of his classmates in the Columbarium at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis , Maryland.view less