A Most Remarkable Life

<p>This volume is a collection of stories (some of them true!) from the writings of Robert Huddleston. Themes both fiction and nonfiction revolve around Bob's life experiences coming of age during World War II and his subsequent time in various US military and federal government positions. His tales capture the spirit and the chicanery of twentieth-century American boom times.</p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(6 55 114 1)>ROBERT HUDDLESTON</strong> was awarded the coveted silver wings of an Army Air Corps pilot while still a teenager. This was followed by extensive training in the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter the aircraft he would pilot in combat against German military forces in the air and on the ground. </p><p><br></p><p>After the war a university education under the GI Bill was followed by employment at New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range where German rocket experts were employed. He then moved onto Washington DC to work at the Pentagon before joining the newly established space agency NASA first at the Goddard Space Flight Center in nearby Maryland later at NASA headquarters. Huddleston has degrees from the University of Missouri and George Washington University and he graduated from the National Defense University in Washington DC as a representative of NASA.</p><p><br></p><p>He married Pepita Lasalle on September 18 1974. Departing federal service he became a freelance writer publishing articles essays book reviews and short stories. For ten years he was a columnist for the <em>Federal Times</em>. He has also published a biography of a Mexican-American patriot <em>Edmundo: From Chiapas Mexico to Park Avenue</em> (2007); the novella <em>An American Pilot with the Luftwaffe</em> (2014); the novel <em>Love and War: A Father and Son in Two World Wars</em> (2020); and <em>Satan's Henchman: Whatever Became of SS General Hans Kammler?</em> (2023) a work of historical fiction. He now resides in a retirement community in Chapel Hill North Carolina. The fact that he is fast approaching his 100th birthday in 2024 has in no way slowed down his writing.</p>