@farmerman,
Was that in Morocco? I was stationed at Ben Guerir AFB about 30 miles north of Marrakech in the late fifties. Visited Tangiers a couple of times, and Casablanca once. Marrakech a few times, and even stayed at the hotel where they filmed The Man Who Knew Too Much with Jimmie Stewart and Doris Day.
One weekend, we sat with some French paratroopers, and spent the afternoon drinking wine and talking in sign language until the MPs picked us up and took us back to base, because we were wearing the French insignia on our hats. Those dirty dogs took them from us.