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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Friend
Honored by:
Ms. Carol Floyd
Born 1918 in Berwick, PA. USNA 1942, graduated December 1941.
Flight school Dallas and Pensacola 1944. Advanced training seaplanes – PBYs – Jacksonville 1945.
Executive Officer PBY Squadron VP53, Air/Sea Rescue, Saipan 1946. VP53 Adak, Aleutians 1947.
U.S. Naval Post Graduate School Annapolis 1948. M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, University Michigan, 1950.
VR 22, Transport Squadron – R4Ds and R5Ds – Norfolk, 1950. Flight Test Officer, Overhaul and Repair, Corpus Christi, 1953. Patrol Squadron VP23 Executive Officer, and VP 26 Commanding Officer Brunswick 1955-1958. Bureau of Naval Weapons R&D Airborne Electrical Branch 1960.
Retired Commander 1963.
Taught trigonometry and calculus Fairfax County Virginia 1963 – 1974.
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