European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mixi  Nobleman Brooks has logged 39 years service in the . Forces. Is his sex highness the sergeant by Don Walter staff writer some people take a second glance when they hear him being called the count but for m sgt Ivan Brooks the title holds Good he started life 59 year Sago As the son of a Noble family in czarist Russia. There have been few Dull moments since for g-foot-6-Inch, 240-Pound count Nicolai Ivanovich Tyhonoff who was graduated at17 from the russian Imperial naval acad Emy once lived in Manchuria has worked in Oakland calif., shipyards and was injured in the attack of Pearl Harbor. Today Nicolai or Brooks is a line chief at Chaumont air base France and has 23 years of air Force service behind  Hopes to stay in the air Force a few More years. Having had a Long service career new retirement regulations  affect him he believes. He and his German born wife live in a Small Villa near the base As do Many air Force families living on the Economy in France. A yellow Cadillac is one of his prize possessions. Life for the soft spoken sergeant follows the general pattern of Anyair Force Man but had it not been for circumstances which decided his destiny he would no doubt still be count Nicolai Ivan Ovich Tyhonoff. Brooks his name was legally changed during the 1920swas born to a count and countess in russian Crimea in 1900. The _ father a Navy Captain spent his retirement years As an official of the new trans siberian railway leading from Vladivostok Eto China. This took the family to Man a