Foil: 3 Panel: 1 Column: 2 Line: 106
Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Friend
Honored by:
Enlisted as U.S. Army Flying Cadet for pilot training June, 1940, the day after France surrendered. Pilot flying B-17’s and B-24’s on anti-submarine patrol with convoys from Newfoundland to Georgia until 9/43.
Checked out as B-29 pilot, 9/43 as member of first B-29 Very Heavy Bomb Wing. Flew 33 combat missions over Japan, Manchuria, Formosa, Southeast Asia, Singapore and Sumatra, including the first and last B-29 missions over Japan, June, 1944 and August, 1945. Circumnavigated globe in his B-29 during eighteen month combat tour.
Wall of Honor profiles are provided by the honoree or the donor who added their name to the Wall of Honor. The Museum cannot validate all facts contained in the profiles.
Foil: 3
