| Description | For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. Childhood and education in Spring Green, Wisconsin; decision to enlist in U.S.Army following 1940 high school graduation; Army Air Forces basic training at Wheeler Field, Hawaii; advanced training in aircraft maintenance at Wheeler, Bellows, and Hickam Fields, Hawaii; social life on base; Pearl Harbor attack; assignment to Flying Staff Sergeants school; “wash-out” experience; return to maintenance squadron; service at Kearney Air Field, Nebraska; gunnery school at Wendover, Utah; assignment to B-24 crew; service in Eighth Air Force, based in England; descriptions of various bombing missions; experience training flight crews for the Chinese Air Force in Pueblo, Colorado; service at various post-war stateside bases, the bulk of it at Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas; family history. |
