For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Marine Corps pilot. Childhood in Tennessee, Florida, and Dallas area; education at Baylor University and Texas A&M; decision to enter Marines aviation program; training at Camp Pendleton, California, Quantico, Virginia; officer candidate school; assignments to naval air stations at Pensacola, Florida; Kingsville, Texas; Lemoore, California; and Fort Worth; particulars of “tailhook” aviation; assignments to USS Kitty Hawk and USS Vinson; civilian career with Northwest Airlines.