AIRMAN 2C Gus Backus will never forget get the night he sang on the Ed Sullivan TV show in New York — he had to rush back to Pittsburgh in time for KP at 5 the following morning. "Like there I was in ...
Frankfurt, Germany, August 28, 1959: Airman 2nd Class Gus Backus, an electrocardiograph technician at the U.S. Air Force hospital in Wiesbaden, sheds his jacket as he sings at the Rock ’n’ Roll-o-Rama ...