Born:  October 15, 1949, Miami, Florida
Address:  111 Chantilly Drive, Warner Robins, GA  31088
Phone:  Work-912-926-5533; Home-912-953-3950
Email:  William.Head@Robins.af.mil; william@williamhead.com
WR-ALC/HO Web Site: http://www.robins.af.mil/history/

Professional Experience

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Chief, WR-ALC Office of History, Robins AFB, Georgia, June 1996-Present.

Deputy Center Historian for the WR-ALC Office of History, Robins AFB, GA, June 25, 1984-June 1996
     Received the 1994 (inaugural) Air Force Special Achievement Award as the Most Outstanding Historian in the Air Force History Program.  This award signified national recognition for a career of excellence in the USAF HO.

Included in:  Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who;s Who in the South and Southeast, and Who's Who International (1996-present).

Associate Editor for Asia, Journal of Third World Studies, June 1986-1997.

Chair, Nominating/Election Committee (1989-1996); Executive Council At Large Member (1997-2000); Vice-Present, Association of Third World Studies (2001-2002).

Editorial Board Member, Proceedings and Papers of the Georgia Associations, Georgia Association of Historians (1988-1992).

Referee for Air Power History, Journal of Military History, Greenwood Press, Texas A & M University Press, and Texas Tech University Press.

The Florida State University, Graduate Teaching Assistant (1974-1975), Professional Assistant, Teaching Assistant (1975-1977), classroom teaching (one class per quarter), Adjunct Professor (1979-1981), classroom teaching, full load each term.

University of Alabama in Huntsville (1981-1984), classroom teaching, full load each term, Assistant Professor.

Mercer University, Macon, GA, (1984-1990), classroom teaching (one class per semester) Adjunct Professor.

Macon College, Macon, GA, (Fall 1988-Present), classroom teaching, one class per semester, Adjunct Professor.

Georgia Military College, Robins AFB Residents Center, (1989-1995), classroom teaching, (one class per quarter), Adjunct Professor.

Research
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Unpublished
"The Evolution of the Chinese Communist Party Leadership in the Kiangsi Period, 1927-1935." Master Thesis completed May 1974.

"America's China Sojourn:  American Foreign Policy and Its Effects on Sino-American Relations, 1942-1948." Ph.D. Dissertation completed June 1980.

Books
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Works in Progress:
Rebuilding the B-29 Fleet to Save Korea, Dr. William Head (Spring 2004)
Building America's Truck Killers:  The AC-119G/K Programs

America's China Sojourn:  American Foreign Policy and Its Effects on Sino-American Relations, 1942-1948.  Washington, D.C.:  University Press of America, 1983.

Crown Jewel of Georgia:  A History of the Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, Georgia USAF, 1998.

The Eagle in The Desert:  U.S. Foreign and Military Policy and Operations in the Persian Gulf War.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1996.

Every Inch A Soldier:  Augustine Warner Robins and The Building of U.S. Air Power, College Station, Texas:  Texas A&M University Press, April, 1995.

Keep 'Em Flying:  Robins AFB, A Half Century of Service to the Nation.  Co-author Isabel Wright.  Macon, GA:  Williams-Rowland Publishers, 1991.

Looking Back at The Vietnam War:  A 1990s Perspective of Decisions, Combat and Legacies, co-edited with Dr. Lawrence Grinter, Air War College.  Westview, CT:   Greenwood Press, July 1993.

Co-edited with Dr. Dave Mets, School for Advanced Airpower Studies, Air University. Plotting a True Course:  Strategic Bombing Air Attack Theory and Doctrine Since World War II. Westport, CT:  Greenwood/Praegar Press, 2002.

Prepare For Combat:  Flying Training For RAF Pilots in the United States, Cochran Field, Georgia, During World War II.  Pensacola, FL:  Pace Publishers Inc., 1994.

The Tet Offensive.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press/Praeger, 1996.

Time Capsule:  A History of the Warner Robins ALC and Robins AFB, Georgia, 1935-1995 USAF, 1997.

Weaving A New Tapestry:  Asia in the Post-Cold War Era, Westport, CT:  Greenwood/Praeger, 1999.

Yenan:  Colonel Wilbur J. Peterkin and the American Mission to Communist China, 1944-1945.  Chapel Hill, N.C.:  Documentary Publications, 1987.

USAF Monograph-- The Father of Air Force Logistics:  The Life and Times of Brig. Gen. Augustine Warner Robins, 1882-1940.  Robins AFB, GA:  Office of History, 1991.

USAF Monograph-- ReWorking the Workhorse:  The C-141B Stretch Modification Program. Robins AFB, GA:  Office of History, 1985.
The above monograph won the 1984 award for the Most Outstanding Monograph in the Air Force Logistics Command.  It was nominated by AFLC Commander, General Earl T. O'Laughlin for the 1984 USAF monograph award and was the runner-up.

USAF Special Study-- The Chronological History of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center and Robins Air Force Base, 1936-1986.  Robins AFB, GA:  Office of History, 1987.

USAF Special Study-- Through The Cameras Eye:  A Photographic Survey of the Origins of Robins Field, 1941-1945.  Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988.

Fairchild Paper, 2002, B-52 Operations During the Second Indochina War and their Effects on Air Force Theory and Doctrine. Air University, Maxwell AFB, AL, 2002.

Articles
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"Caribbean Nationalism." Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism." Vol. 4 (1977), pp. 74-86.

"Reagan's China Policy and the End of America's China Honeymoon."  Asian Thought and Society. Vol. 22 (March-May, 1983), pp. 129-136.

"The State Visit No One Covered:  President Li's Visit to Washington, July 23, 1985."   Asian Thought and Society.  Vol. 24 (November-December 1985), pp. 85-88.

***"The Evolution of the Chinese Revolutionary Tradition from the White Lotus to Maoism." The Journal of Third World Studies.  Vol. III:  No. 2 (Fall 1986), pp. 7-18. Reprint CEAPA:  Centre for the Enrichment in African Political Affairs. Vol. II:  No. 2 (April-June 1988), pp. 25-31.

***"The C-141B Stretch Program:  A Case Study of the Relationship between the Military and Defense Contractors."  The Air Force Journal of Logistics, Vol. X:  No. 4 (Fall 1986) pp. 23-26 and Vol. XI:  No. 1 (Winter 1987), pp. 17-20.

***"The Origins of the Warner Robins Army Air Depot and the Air Depot Expansion Program, 1940-1943."  The Air Force Journal of Logistics, Vol. XIV:  No. 2 (Spring 1990), pp. 28-37.

***"'Puff the Magic Dragon':  A History of the AC-47 Gunship." Air Power History. Vol. 37:  No. 3 (Fall 1990), pp. 37-46.  Winner of a 1990 Outstanding Article Award.

***"Air Power in the Persian Gulf:  An Initial Search for the Right Lessons," Air Force Journal of Logistics, Vol. XVI:  No. 1 (Winter 1991-2), pp. 10-19.   Winner of a 1991 Outstanding Article Award.

***"Preserving The History of Air Power in the Southeast:  The First Decade of The Museum of Aviation at Robins AFB, Georgia."  Co-Author Dr. Richard W. Iobst, The Air Force Journal of Logistics, Vol XVI:  No 3 (Summer 1992), pp. 25-29.  Winner of a 1992 Outstanding Article Award.

"Playing Hide-and-Seek with the 'Trial:'  Operation Commando Hung, 1968-1972," Journal of Third World Studies. Vol.XIX, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 101-115.

Published Proceedings and Book Chapters
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"Wanghia Negotiations:  America and China in the 1840s."  Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Teachers of History (1981).

"Post-Mao China Moves into the Twenty-First Century."  Proceedings of the Southeastern Regional the World Future Society (1983).

"Response to Dr. Zia Hasan Hashmi's International Terrorism:  Sources, Causes and Effects." Journal of Third World Studies.  Vol. III:  No. 2 (Fall 1986), pp. 105-108.

***"Response to Dr. G. Lane Van Tassel's The Case for Pluralism in Sandanista Nicaragua."   Journal of Third World Studies. Vol. IV:  No. 1 (Spring 1987), pp. 105-108.

Linebacker II Operations and U.S. Strategic Bombing Operations at the End of the Second Indochina War, National Aerospace Conference Proceedings:  The Making of Flight in the 20th Century (1-3 October 1998), Dayton, Ohio:  Wright State University Press, 1999.

Chapter--"The China Policy of the Truman Administration and the Debate Over the Recognition of the People's Republic of China, 1949."  William Leaventrosser ed., Harry S. Truman:   The Man From Independence.  New York:  Greenwood Press, 1986.

Linebacker II Operations and U.S. Strategic Bombing Operations at the End of the Second Indochina War, National Aerospace Conference Proceedings:  The Making of Flight in the 20th Century (1-3 October 1998), Dayton, Ohio:  Wright State University Press, 1999.

Chapter- "The War From Above the Clouds:  B-52 Operations During the Second Indochina War and the Effects of the Air War on Air Power Doctrine," in Rebecca Cameron and Barbara Wittig eds.  Golden Legacy, Boundless Future:  Essays on the United States Air Force and the Rise of Aerospace Power.  Washington, D.C.:  Air Force History and Museum Program, 2000.

The Annual History of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, FY84-01.  Eleven Volumes. Robins AFB, GA: Office of History, 1985-1995.
I have written two chapters in each of these Annual Histories.  My main areas of expertise are High Technology and Avionics Weapons Systems.

Scholarly Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries
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Three entries co-authored in the Dictionary of The United States Air Force.  Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press, November, 1991.

Fifteen entries in The Dictionary of the Vietnam War, ed. by Spencer Tucker, VMI, ABC Clio, 1998.

Twenty entries in The Dictionary of the Korean War, ed. by Spencer Tucker, VMI, ABC Clio, 2000.

Fifteen entries in The Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 9 and 10 (New York:   Scribner's Sons Inc., 1994, 1995).

"Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bombings of," in John W. Chambers, II, editor-in-chief, The Oxford Companion to American Military History. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 314-315.

Book Reviews
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Ronnie Dugger.  The Politician:  The Life and Times of Lyndon B. Johnson, The Drive for Power-From the Frontier to Master of the Senate.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1982.  Huntsville Times, June 8, 1982.

Larry Berman.  Planning a Tragedy:  The Americanization of the War in Vietnam.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1982.  Huntsville Times, July 11, 1982.

Robert Blum.  Drawing The Line:  The Origin of the Containment Policy in East Asia.  New York:  W. W. Norton, 1982.  Huntsville Times, October 3, 1982.

Robert Pisor.  The End of the Line:  The Siege of Khe Sanh.   New York:  W. W. Norton, 1982.  Huntsville Times, October 17, 1982.

Philip S. Foner.  History of Black Americans:  From the Compromise of 1850 to the End of the Civil War.  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 1983.  History:  Review of New Books, February 1984.

Harold R. Isaacs.  Re-Encounters in China:  Notes of a Journey in a Time Capsule.  Armonk, New York:  M.E. Sharpe, 1985.   Asian Thought and Society.  Vol. 11:  No. 31 (March 1986), pp. 66-67.

Edwin P. Hoyt.  The Bloody Road to Panmunjon.  New York:   Stein & Day Inc., 1985.  Air University Review, Vol. 37:  No. 4 (May-June 1986), pp. 115-116.

Steffen W. Schmidt.  El Salvador:  America's Next Vietnam?   Salisbury, North Carolina:  Documentary Publications, 1983.   Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. III:  No. 1 (Spring 1986), pp. 128-131.

Samuel S. Kim, ed.  China and the World:  Chinese Foreign Policy in the Post-Mao Era.  Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1984.   Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. III:  No. 2 (Fall 1986).

Lucien W. Pye.  Asian Power and Politics:  The Cultural Dimensions of Authority.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard Press, 1985.   Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. IV:  No. 1 (Spring 1987).

Janice Rand and Stephen P. MacKinnon.  Agnes Smedley:  The Life of an American Radical.  Berkeley, California:  University of California Press, 1987.  Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. VI:   No. 2 (Spring 1989).

Earl H. Tilford.  SetUp:  What the United States Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why?  Maxwell AFB, AL:  Air University Press, 1991.   Air Power History, Vol. 38:  No. 4 (Winter 1991), pp. 60-61.

***Paul Goldstene.  Bittersweet Century:  Speculations on Modern Science and American Democracy.  Novato, CA:  Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc., 1989.  Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. X:  No. 1 (Spring 1993).

***Dennis E. Showalter and John G. Albert, eds., An American Dilemma, Vietnam, 1964-1973. Chicago:  Imprint Publications, 1993.  The Journal of Military History, Vol. 59, No. 1 (January 1995) pp. 178-179.

Lewis Sorley.  Honorable Warrior:  General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command.  Lawrence, Kansas:  University of Kansas Press, 1998.  Journal of American History, pp. 316-317.

Conference Presentations and Panels
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"Michael Borodin's Mission to China," Phi Alpha Theta Regional Convention, Deland, Florida, April 12, 1973.

"America's Lost Opportunity in China," The Florida Conference of Teachers of History, Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, Florida, March 22, 1977.

"Wanghia Negotiations:  America and China in the 1840s," The Florida Conference of Teachers of History, Jacksonville, Florida, March 7, 1981.

"Dixie: American Observers in Yenan, China, 1944-1945," The Phi Alpha Theta Regional Convention, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, May 11, 1981.

"Post-Mao China Moves into the Twenty-First Century," The World Future Society Conference, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, March 5, 1983.

"The China Policy of the Truman Administration and the Debate Over Recognition of the People's Republic of China, 1949," The International Conference on Harry S. Truman, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, April 14, 1983.

"The Mission of Colonel Louis Johnson and the Question of Indian Independence, 1942," The Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 19, 1983.

"The Reagan Administration's China Policy:  The End of the Sino-American Detente," The Missouri Valley Historical Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 8, 1984.

"Dixie in North China:  American Personnel in Yenan, 1944," The Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 11, 1985.

Commentary-Panel (Sponsored by the American Military Institute/AMI)--American Units in Combat.   The 20th Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference (NGPHC), North Dakota State University, Moorhead, Minnesota, October 2-5, 1985.

Commentary-Panel--Economic Issues in the Third World.  Second Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS), Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, October 17, 1985.

Commentary-Panel--The Third World in Perspective, "International Terrorism:  Sources, Causes and Effects."  Sponsored by ATWS, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, January 29, 1986.

Moderator-Panel--The Civil War in North Carolina.  The Georgia Association of Historians, Columbus College, Columbus, Georgia, April 5, 1986.

Commentary-Panel--Third World in Perspective, "The Chinese Revolution:  Some Successes and Some Setbacks."  Sponsored by ATWS, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, April 9, 1986.

"Harry Truman and Red China:  An Issue of Recognition during the Cold War," (Sponsored by AMI). The 21st Annual NGPHC, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, September 25-27, 1986.

Commentary-Panel--Political Systems in the Third World.  Third Annual Conference of the ATWS, Georgia Southwestern, Americus, Georgia, October 23, 1986.

Commentary-Panel--Imperialism, Communism, and Feminism in Early 20th Century China. The 26th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 15-17, 1987.

Commentary-Panel--Asia and the West, "U.S.-East Asian Relations."  Sponsored by ATWS, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, February 19, 1987.

Moderator-Panel--Asia and the West, "Western Influences in South Asia."  Sponsored by ATWS, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, February 19, 1987.

Commentary-Panel--Third World in Perspective, "U.S.-Chinese Trade Relations in the 1980s." Sponsored by ATWS, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, July 1, 1987.

Moderator-Panel--The Military in East Asia, "The Modern Military in Taiwan, Republic of China." Fourth Annual ATWS Conference, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, October 7-8, 1987.

"The C-141B Stretch Program:  A Case Study of the Unique Relationship between the Military and Local Contractors," (Sponsored by AMI).  The 22nd Annual NGPHC, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, October 15-17, 1987.

Moderator-Panel--American Missionaries and their Influence on American Policy in China. Seminar, the Pacific Rime Institute, University of San Diego, San Diego, California, October 23-25, 1987.

Symposium Organizer--Second Annual ATWS Symposium on Asia and the World.  Asia and the Super Powers--Panel#1 "Sino-American Relations in the 1980s and 1990s."  Panel#2 "The Indo-Soviet Treaty of 1971."  Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, February 19, 1988.

"A Brief History of the Chinese Revolution and the Origins of Maoist Ideological Idealism," Florida College Teachers of History 26th Annual Conference, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March 3-5, 1988.

Commentator-Panel--Third World in Perspective, "Nationalism and Communism in Vietnam." Sponsored by ATWS, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, April 14, 1988.

Moderator-Panel--History and Future of the INF Treaty.  Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, James E. Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, Georgia, April 15-16, 1988.

Moderator-Panel--Collective Security and the Korean War, (Sponsored by AMI).  The 23rd Annual NGPHC, Iron Range Research Center, Eveleth, Minnesota, September 22-24, 1988.

Conference Co-Chair and Organizer--Trends and Issues in the Third World.  Sixth Annual Conference of ATWS, Armstrong College, Savannah, Georgia, October 6-8, 1988. Cultural organizer, sponsoring the China Youth Goodwill Tour, Taiwan, Republic of China, performance at this conference as part of their 1988 world tour.

Moderator-Panel--Asian Economic Development in the PRC and the ROC.  Sixth Annual Conference of the ATWS, Armstrong College, Savannah, Georgia, October 6-8, 1988.

"Maoist Ideological Philosophy and China's Revolution," Sponsored by ATWS.  Georgia Association of Historians Annual Meeting, Jekyll Island, Georgia, April 21-22, 1989.

Panel Organizer--Two panels for Revolutions and Revolutionaries in History, sponsored by ATWS, for Georgia Association of Historians, Jekyll Island, Georgia, April 21-22, 1989.

Seminar-"Strategy and Technology and Its Affects on U.S. Military Strategy," sponsored by the School of International Affairs, Georgia Technology and Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, August 24-26, 1989.  I was one of the invited panelists which included former Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Ty Cobb and former Ambassador to the German Federal Republic Martin Hillenbrand.  Held at the Wardlaw Building, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Moderator-Panel--Revolutionary Violence and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia. Seventh Annual ATWS Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, September 28-30, 1989.

Panel Organizer-"Genocide, Violence, and Words of Hope in Modern South Asia," Seventh ATWS Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, September 28-30, 1989.

Commentator-Panel--Supply War:  The Failure of Japanese Shipping in World War II and Its Impact on Morale, (Sponsored by AMI).  The 24th Annual NGPHC, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, October 5-7, 1989.

Commentator-Panel--Third World in Perspective, "Latin American-Super Power Relations." Sponsored by ATWS, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, January 25, 1990.

***"Warner Robins Army Air Depot and Robins Field:  A Case Study of the Army Air Depot Expansion Program, 1940-1943."  The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historian, Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C., March 22-25, 1990.

"Innovation on a Shoestring:  The Development of the AC-47 Gunship," (Sponsored by AMI). The 25th Annual NGPHC, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, October 4-6, 1990.

***Conference Organizer-Vietnam:  Impact and Legacy.  Co-sponsored by ATWS and School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Wardlaw Building, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, February 7-8, 1991.

Speech and Paper-"The Persian Gulf War in Retrospect:  Military Aspects," co-sponsored by ATWS, Georgia Southern University and Georgia Southwestern College, at Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, Georgia, April 24, 1991.

Commentator-Panel--Strategic Bombing in World War II:  Doctrine and Policy, 1943-1945," (Sponsored by Society for Military History formerly AMI).  The 26th Annual NGPHC, Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota, October 3-5, 1991.

Commentator-Panel--Air Power Before World War II, Society for Military History, 17th Annual National Conference, Marine Corps Academy, Quantico, VA, April 9-12, 1992.

Paper-"Warner Robins Army Air Depot:  the Air Force and the Home Front in World War II," The Home Front in World War II Conference sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration, Southeast Region, held at Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1, 1992.

***Paper-"Through The Looking Glass:  Comparing the Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars." Conference- Remembering Tet, 1968 by Salisbury State University, Department of History, Salisbury, Maryland, November 19-21, 1992.

Commentator-Panel--Vietnam The Early Years.  Conference- Vietnam:  Paris Plus Twenty by Texas Tech University, Center for the Study of the Vietnam War, Lubbock, Texas, April 22-24, 1993.

***Paper-"Playing The Lessons Learned Game:  Comparing the Gulf War and the Vietnam War."  28th Annual Association of Asian Studies Conference-SEC, January 12-14, 1994, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

Panel Organizer and Moderator for Dr. Jane Hamilton-Merritt, Professor of History, University of Southern Connecticut, paper entitled "Asian Crises, with Special Emphasis on Laos." For Third World Crises Series-Third World in Perspective Program, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, GA, February 3, 1994.

***Paper-"Bringing the USAAF to Middle Georgia:  The Genesis of Robins Field, Georgia, 1940-1943."  19th Annual Society for Military History Conference, National Archives, Washington, D.C., April 8-10, 1994.

Panel Organizer and Respondent for Dr. William M. Leary, Professor of History, University of Georgia, paper entitled "The Central Intelligence Agency and the Secret War in Laos." For the Third World Development Series--Third World in Perspective Program, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, GA, February 9, 1995.

***Paper-"Security Issues in Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf During the Post-Cold War Era." Conference Security Issues in the Third World During the Post-Cold War Era--Asia, Georgia Southwestern College, Americus, GA, April 20, 1995.

***Panel Chair and Discussant- A Closing Campaign and New Military Directions in the Post-Civil War Era, 62nd Annual Annual Meeting of the Society of Military History, Gettysburg, PA, May 11-14, 1995.

Panel Chair:  East and Southeast Asia, Revolutions in Transition, 35th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Regional Conference Association for Asian Studies, 12-14 January 1996, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

"The Transition of China's Revolution:  Secret Societies to Maoism," 35th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Regional Conference Association for Asian Studies, 12-14 January 1996, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Panel Chair:  Reassessing Patterns of Remembrance in Vietnam War Memorials, "After the Cold War:  Reassessing Vietnam," Center for the Study of the Vietnam Conflict, Texas Tech University. Triennial Conference/Symposium. 18-20 April 1996.

Panel Chair:   Women's Issues in Twentieth Century Asia; Then and Now, 14th Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies. Troy State University, Montgomery, AL, 8-10 October 1996.

Panel Chair:   Asian Security Issues, 36th Annual Meeting, Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies, 17-19 January 1997.

Panel Chair:   Air Power Between the Wars:   Technology, Intelligence, and Politics, Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History, 11-13 April 1997, Air University, Auburn University, University of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama.

"The War From Above the Clouds:   B-52 Operations During the Second Indochina War and the Effects of the Air War on Air Power Doctrine," 28-29 May 1997, Air Force History/Museum Office Symposium, Washington, D.C., "50th Anniversary of the U.S. Air Force, Golden Legacy, Boundless Future."

Conference Organizer /Host and Program Chair.   The 1998 Air Force Materiel Command History Conference and Workshop, 8-12 June 1998, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

"Linebacker II and U.S. Strategic Bombing at the End of the Second Indochina War," P anel:   Military Aviation:   U.S. Strategic Bombing in Three Wars, 1998 National Aerospace Conference:   The Meaning of Flight in the 20th Century, 1-3 October 1998, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

Panel Chair:   The Changing Role of Women in China, 16th Annual Conference of the Association of Third World Studies, 8-10 October 1998, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina.

Panel Chair:   Military Matters in Asia, 38th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies, 15-17 January 1999.

Panel Chair:   A Look of Chinese Foreign Policy, 41st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference Association of Asian Studies, 18-20 January 2002, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Panel Chair:   Vietnam:   Images and Realities and Why the North Won the Vietnam War, 4th Triennial Vietnam Symposium, Center for the Study of the Vietnam War, Texas Tech University, 11-13 April 2002.

Newspaper Articles
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Since November 27, 1984, I have written a monthly editorial column for the Macon News and Telegraph.
At present I have 147 editorials under my byline.

Since July 16, 1985, I have periodically written articles for the Robins Rev-Up.
I have published 29 to date.

Civic Activities and Presentations
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"A Review of the History of Electronic Warfare," Dixie Old Crows, Robins AFB, GA, November 19, 1984

"Ronald Reagan's China Policy, 1981-1985," Macon Northside Optimist Club, Macon, GA, December 5, 1984

"A Photographic Memorial, Robins Field and the Second World War," Macon Northside Optimist Club, Macon, Georgia,
April 21, 1988

***Dedication Address--"The Warner Robins Tradition."  The Memorialization of the Commanders' Quarters--Quarters One--as The "Robins House."  Presiding Officer General Alfred G. Hansen, AFLC Commander, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, October 2, 1989

Judge--1989-1995, Georgia History Day, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia; 1996-1997, Clayton State College, Atlanta, Georgia; 1998-2002, Macon State College, Macon, Georgia

Judge--1993-2002, Regional Georgia History Day, Macon College, Macon, Georgia

Judge--1990-1995, Georgia Social Science Fair, Regional Competition, Macon, Georgia

Coach--1993-2002, Baseball, Warner Robins City Recreation Department Baseball League for children

Television and Media
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Robins AFB Documentary-Robins Report, "50 Years of Robins AFB," producers William Beck and Major Philip Hutchinson.  I was the primary historical adviser and interviewed historical authority.  The original show aired July 24, 1991.  It has been re-aired several times and used by senior WR-ALC officials during briefings and speeches.

Television Documentary-WMAZ Syndication, "Robins at 50," producer William Tribble.  Historical source, advisor, and interviewed historical authority.  The show was first aired August 31, 1991 and again on September 14th and 21st.  It is sponsored by the Robins Federal Credit Union and is sold in VHS cassette form by the Robins AFB Museum of Aviation for $29.95.

***Senior Historical Adviser for the Georgia Public Television documentary "State of War:  Georgia's Homefront During World War II." Aired in May and June 1994.

Moderator, "50th Anniversay of the B-52" Museum of Aviation, Robins AFB, May 2002.

Robins Report, Interviewed as an expert on B-52 for Programs of 20-24 May 2002.

Membership in Learned Societies and Community Organizations
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Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society), 1972
Association of Asian Studies, 1974
Phi Kappa Phi, 1975 (Life Member)
Smithsonian Institution--Associate Member, 1977
American Historical Association, 1982
Southern Center for International Studies, 1982
Association of Third World Studies, 1985 (Life Member)
American Military Institute (Society for Military History since 1991), 1985
Georgia Association of Historians, 1985 (Life Member)
The Society For History in the Federal Government, 1985
National Association of Scholars, 1991

Grants, Awards, and Fellowships
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Dissertation Fellowship--The Florida State University, Department of History
September 1977-March 1978.

Outstanding Teacher, Division of Arts and Humanities for 1982, University of Alabama in
Huntsville

Site Assistant, Huntsville aspect of the Urban Humanities Group for the Alabama History and
Heritage Festival entitled, "The Tennessee Valley in Alabama History," February 7-28, 1983
Grant from the Committee for the Humanities in Alabama
Coordinator for "The Tennessee Valley in Alabama History," Seminar, February 22, 1983

Fulbright Teaching Fellowship to China (PRC), Peking Foreign Language Institute to teach
American History and Culture, Summer 1984

Golden Pen Award, Macon News and Telegraph, 1985 Annual Outstanding Editorial Award

Alabama State Legislative Resolution of Appreciation for Outstanding Community Service from
1982-1984, presented on April 28, 1986

USAF Excellent Performance Award--1984 and 1987

USAF Outstanding Performance Award--1985, 1986, 1988-1995

USAF Outstanding History Office Award for the Air Force Logistics Command
1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1995. Runner-up in the Air Force, 1990, 1992, and 1994

Air Force Journal of Logistics annual outstanding article of the year award for 1991 and 1992

***Winner of the inaugural Air Force Special Achievement Award as 1994 Most Outstanding Air Force Historian
Awarded at the Bi-annual Air Force Materiel Command Conference Banquet by
Dr. Richard P. Hallion, Chief Air Force Office of History, on June 16, 1994

***Winner of the 1994 annual Air Force Materiel Command Outstanding Publication Award
Finalist for the Air Force Award

Post Doctoral Studies
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Seminar--TRADOC Military History Instructor's Course, Combat Studies Institute
U.S. Army, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, June 9-21, 1985

Seminar--Oral History and Archival Workshop, Air Force Historical Research Center
Maxwell AFB, Alabama, April 6-10, 1987

Seminar--Air Power and Aerospace History Course.  Sponsored by Office of Air Force
History, Washington, D.C. (Pentagon), held at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, September 15-27, 1991

Languages
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Chinese-Mandarin (primarily reading knowledge for research)
Spanish

References
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Contact Dr. William Head for references.