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Dad was dazzled at the age of 11 by the flight across the Atlantic by Charles Lindbergh. He decided then that he would try to have a career in aviation. He enrolled in University of California at Berkeley, and graduated in 1937 with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. He had participated in ROTC, largely because of the pay, which, being from a poor family, he needed to stay in school. After he graduated, he became a flying cadet at Kelley Field in Texas. An excellent pilot, he joined the instruction staff of a school for bomber pilots at Mather Field in Sacramento, California. When the school was ended in late 1944, he was sent to Germany as a combat pilot flying a P-47 fighter bomber in support of ground troops such as the 3rd army of General Patton. In his later career he joined the staff of the Berlin Airlift, commanded Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina (1956-57), and in 1957-58 was the Deputy Commander of a Wing in Korea. He retired in 1962 as a Colonel. In retirement, he and my mother lived in Davis, California, and later moved to Air Force Village West in Riverside, California.
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