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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Ms. Marie C. Antal

A native of Washington D.C., Jim was born the third of four sons at his parents’ home on Quincv Street N.W. on December 29th 1924. As a youth, he served as a pageboy at the Supreme Court and then enlisted in the military along with his three brothers to fight in WWII. He served as a navigator in the Army Air Corps, his plane was a B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed 'Helies Belles', and when the war ended his crew flew home from England to the States. Jim graduated with a mechanical engineers degree from Catholic University of America and found a job as cost estimator for the Navy. Reporting to Congress and the Secretary of the Navy, he later became the one and only estimator for ship costing which included estimates on the first nuclear ships. His marriage to Joyce took place in 1952, when they settled in the Washington D.C. suburbs to raise a family. By 1967, he had his seventh child and is now the proud grandfather to fourteen. Jim and Joyce currently enjoy retirement, are actively involved in church work, visiting friends, travel and love golfing.