My father, dick robinson

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The bottom picture is of Dick Robinson, my biological father; he tried to join the Army Air Corps toward the end of World War II in the U.S., but was turned down because there were no openings at the time. So he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. dick flew an Avro 621 trainer

Dicks fathers. My grandfather's picture was taken with Rex Rankin, a very famous pilot in the Pacific Northwest. This is the top picture and his famous plane with Rankin on the side.

Dick flew into Richland, Washington, around 1958, when the Columbia had badly flooded, to pick up my mother-to-be and take her back to Walla Walla for their wedding. Of course, I hadn't been born yet.. At the same time, my stepfather-to-be was flying people out of the Tri-Cities.

Interestingly, my biological father, dick deserted my family in 1947

Dick came back to the doorstep of my house when I was 38 years old and said, "I'm your father!" It turned out he had worked on a number of movies, and you can find him on Google. He has since passed away. He had worked for the Wild Kingdom, an older show about wildlife, had done a lot of work on the Jeremiah Johnson movie, and helped originate the concept for the "Grizzly Adams series," which was produced by Sun Pictures. Dick had many wild animals on a ranch in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, including a grizzly bear named "Willie."

If any questions, e-mail me. Ric