Thomas E. Simmons

Thomas E. Simmons is the author of four books to date, The Brown Condor, Escape from Archangel, Forgotten Heroes of World War II and his latest, The Man Called Brown Condor. He grew up in Mississippi, attended Marion Military Institute, the U. S. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Alabama. He even has a degree from one or another of them, including a BA in English Literature. He has been an entrepreneur in the hospitality industry as well as a sales engineer with an international heavy industry and is an active port consultant for container handling systems. He served as commercial captain of a seventy foot sailing vessel, has been a pilot since the age of sixteen, has flown professionally and participated in air shows flying aerobatics in open-cockpit bi-planes. In 1960 he served as an artillery officer in Korea. He has traveled the world for business and pleasure. He was awarded the FAA Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. He lives in Gulfport where his wife, saint that she is,patiently abides him and two no-account dogs.