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| Wallys Orders to Inactive Duty, probably issued shortly after enlisting and before he received his assignment. |
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The Outhouse Incident
She said that one day he came riding in real fast on his horse, jumped off and made a made dash into the outhouse. (That was the extent of the available facilities for someone growing up in the 1920's in Escalante, Utah). Nature was in a hurry to get things going so Wally didn't take the time to tie off the reigns on the horse but simply ran them through a hole in the outhouse door and sat down to take care of business while tightly holding onto the reigns with one of his hands. Something spooked the horse and it jerked the reigns slamming Wally's hand against the outhouse door and breaking several of his fingers in the process. Ouch!!!!
Stories about Wally from Sister Juanita
The following stories about Wally are from his older sister Juanita as written in her own personal history.
WALLY
I really didn't get to know my other brothers and sisters that well because I was so much older.Wally and I however were very close. He was born on my birthday exactly two years later. My parents lost the next baby, and then came Evelyn. I remember one day Wally and I were washing dishes and I had to go to the outhouse. It was a long ways from the house. Wally was washing the dishes and I was drying. He decided to try to surprise me that day and have the dishes all washed and dried before I got back. He tried to pour the boiling water over the dishes to rinse them before I got back and he scalded himself really bad. He was just in horrible shape. He carried those scars to his death. He was scalded all down his legs and his arm and side. It was horrible!
OTHER STORIES ABOUT WALLY
Wally used to work for Victor in the coal mines and Victor used to pay him at the end of the week and Wally would tell me, "Now you put that money away, because I don't want to spend it. I don't care how mad I get, just don't you give it to me when I ask for it". Wally liked to carouse around and drink a little. He'd come back drunk and want it and I'd say, "No! You told me to keep it." Wally would get mad and say, "That's my money! I'm the one that earned it." He'd end up getting it every time.
Wally and I were so close, when he was killed in the service, they sent me a telegram of it just like they did Mom. He was such a good brother. But the family moved away from town when Wally was a teenager. They moved up to Provo. He was killed in the war. They said in the letter they searched and searched but they couldn't find his body. That sure about killed my mom. They had a memorial service, which was all. He has a marker up in the Springville Cemetery.
If you kill one of us, we'll make more
Wally Barney loved Airplanes. His sister Evelyn said that he was always carving airplanes out of soap and out of wood....out of whatever he could get his hands on (which is about the only way you were going to get a toy airplane if you happened to be growing up during the depression in Escalante, Utah). After Wally's death in the war, his sister Juanita had a son who she named "Wally" in honor of her beloved brother. Nature has a habit of restoring and repeating its favored patterns such that death is never the final story. Therefore it should be no surprise to us that Wally 2.0 also loved airplanes and he in fact spent his career flying them for the United States Air Force.
In his own words, Wally's nephew Wally writes:
In his own words, Wally's nephew Wally writes:
"From as long as I can remember, I wanted to fly airplanes. I loved any movie that had flying in it. It wasn’t until my mission, when I was in Calgary Alberta, Canada, that I made up my mind I was going to pursue flying. We lived near an airport and I would watch the airplanes fly over head and I decided when I returned home, I would go back to BYU and join AFROTC and would become a pilot in the Air Force. I first learned to fly and I was able to get my private pilot’s license at Provo Airport as part of the ROTC FIP (Flight Instruction Program). After graduating, I joined the AF and went to Vance AFB, Enid OK for pilot training. I flew and trained in the T37 and T38 aircraft and really loved that challenging program. I then went to Shaw AFB, Sumter, SC to learn to fly the RF4C fighter/reconnaissance aircraft. The Vietnam War was going on and I thought I might go there after but got an assignment to Bergstrom AFB, Austin, TX instead. The war ended at the end of that assignment so I missed out on that. From there I went to Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan, then back to Mather AFB, Sacramento, CA to fly the T37 trainer instructing navigators. Then, back to Bergstrom to requalify in the RF4C and then on to Zweibrucken AB, Germany. My last assignment was to Eglin AFB, Fort Walton Beach, FL. All my assignments were flying assignments, at my request. I never wanted to get out of the cockpit." ~Wally Alvey
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| RF-4 & Wally Alvey |
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| T37 Tweet |
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| T-37 and Wally |
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| T38 & Wally Alvey |
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