[John Rogers]

My natural father (I was later adopted by my grandmother) was a structural mechanic as a Sargent in the Army Air Corps and later the US Air Force and my mother was with him while he was stationed at Muroc Dry Lake base and lived in a tent. Robert worked on the conversion from a conventional elevator system to the newer one piece system that eliminated the vibrations when trying to control the Bell X1. Since they were living in a tent and it was a tad hot there she left shortly after I was conceived in the September time frame. She went back to Delaware and got a divorce and after I was born in May of 1945 she joined the US Navy. Robert stayed at Muroc and was there when Col Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947. I never met him until 2003 as it was kept a big family secret all those years?