For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood experiences on a succession of Michigan farms during the Great Depression, including the Sharon Hollow Farm associated with Ford Motor Company; developing interest in aviation; work at Willow Run bomber plant assembling B-24s; enlistment in Army Air Forces; assignment to college training detachment at University of Tennessee-Knoxville; training as aviation cadet and assignment to training as bomber pilot; reassignment to training as gunner at Tyndall Field, Florida; transfer to base at Lincoln, Nebraska; 1946 discharge; 1947 re-enlistment; experience at Williams AFB, Arizona, training Chinese pilot cadets; transfer into weather observation and atomic testing assignments; assignments in UK, Germany, and Hawaii.