Mr. DALE K. ROBINSON

Aviation Historian

MEMBER

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Dale K. Robinson retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1995 as a Technical Sergeant after 20 years in helicopter maintenance, the last ten spent with the Sikorsky MH-53J Pave Low IIIE special operations helicopter and the 20th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida. Dale is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and served in Operations Provide Promise and Deny Flight in support of United Nations operations in Bosnia.

Dale is an amateur military historian, and has written several articles and columns for magazines and newspapers. In 1994, he co-authored a book entitled Air Commando! 1950 - 1975: Twenty Five Years At The Tip Of The Spear, which was published by the Air Force Special Operations School at Hurlburt Field, Florida. He has also written a 50-year history of the 20th Special Operations Squadron, which has yet to be published. In 1998, he had an article about the 20th Special Operations Squadron in Southeast Asia published in the August 98 issue of Vietnam magazine.  He has written a manuscript that covers the 20th SOS history from WWII to about 1994.

Below are links to some of his work

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