Gallery

  • First Lt Giere with his memorable mustache
  • Bernie earns his wings
  • Bernie with his parents and little brother
  • Proud parents to be, at Bernie’s Flight School graduation
  • F-4’s under overcast skies
  • Landing the first F-4 at Naha, Okinawa, 1964
  • Scrapping trays after chow on the beach

  • Berine and Jim
  • First Lt. Giere
  • Beside the F-4
  • Down time at Cam Ranh
  • Bernie on Kowloon Ferry to Hong Kong
  • Gretel, Lisa, and Paul
  • Rescue at sea
  • Take off from the deck of the Ticonderoga
  • Paul, Bernie, and Lisa
  • Our first night out after Vietnam
  • Lisa welcomes her daddy home
  • Belva and the boys
  • Bernie sitting on an engine intake
  • Enjoying our PanAm trip
  • Bernie in the cockpit of the F-102
  • Sitting with Opa, Oma, Sarajane, and Paul
  • Sailing in Remsenburg
  • Speonk River
  • Bernie flying the C-130
  • PanAm Paris trip, 1990
  • Bernie dedicates a restored HH-3E helicopter
  • Colonel Giere
  • The cockpit crew and I in Nice during a layover
  • Bernie and his father, Rudy
  • Visit to Eglin Air Force Base Museum
  • Rudy and Rolland
  • After Bernie’s Stearman ride
  • Under the shadow of a wing
  • Rafting on the Snake River in Wyoming
  • On Tiana Beach
  • Christmas 2019
  • Newlyweds 1961