Business executive. His experiences as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Army Air Forces, December, 1942; pre-flight training, Lancaster, California; primary flight training, Hemet, California; advanced flight training, Pecos, Texas; assignment to B-29s, January, 1945; mechanical weaknesses of the B-29; assignment to the 315th Bomb Wing at Guam, 1945; living conditions on Guam; dropping supplies by parachute to prisoners-of-war, 1945; his descriptions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, from the air after the dropping of the atomic bombs; his disappointment with not being able to fly combat missions; postwar duty as a test pilot on Guam; postwar civilian activities.