Bob Ferguson was in grade school when his family moved to Chambley Air Base, France, in 1956.
He didn’t really know the significance of the 21st Fighter Bomber Wing, but as his family, and others, built the base in an open field in eastern France, the Airmen of the 21st Fighter Bomber Wing were building a legacy.
It was 1951, and the Cold War threat with the former Soviet Union was real. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization had taken over the Chambley-Bussieres airfield in France and the U.S. Air Force began construction to establish its base there.
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