| Description | Accountant. His experiences as an air forward observer in the European Theater during World War II. His early education and coping with the Great Depression; his decision to join the Oklahoma National Guard at age fifteen in 1938; Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940; mobilization of the 45th Division, Oklahoma National Guard, September 15, 1940; Louisiana Maneuvers of 1941; Officer Candidate School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1942; his volunteering for training as a forward liaison pilot; training at Hartlee Field, Denton, Texas, 1943; flying the L-4 Piper Cub; meeting his future wife, Beth Taylor, in Denton, 1943; thirty-day advanced training course at Fort Sill, 1943; assignment to the 102nd Infantry Division and additional training at Camp Maxey, Paris, Texas; Louisiana Maneuvers of 1943; his marriage to Beth Taylor, April 25, 1944; landing in France, September, 1944; comments about the French black market; assignment to Maastricht, Holland, November 1, 1944; relations with Dutch civilians; various missions as a forward liaison; being shot down by a German fighter, January 1, 1945; the death of his forward artillery observer; his recovery from a fractured skull and injuries from other shell fragments; his return to the States from England, March, 1945; his postwar education and career. |
