Distant Horizons; From Midwest to Middle East

On March 6, 1948, a U.S. military transport plane landed at Dhahran Air Base, Saudi Arabia, and Major George Trial stepped out to an overcast desert morning.
What had made a young Air Force officer leave his family, a comfortable life and pending promotion in Washington D.C., to travel to a tiny airbase in an isolated desert kingdom on the other side of the world?
Born in 1910, George Trial was the only son of a farming family from the tiny village of Muscotah, Kansas. His father, a succes...