Click on any photo you would like to see as a 4 x 6 inch.
1927 The
hook! Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic!
18 June - 21 July RTU (Replacement Training Unit)
Sarasota FL, P-40K & M, 64 hours
12 September - 23 October 1st Fighter Training
Center, Berteaux Algeria, P-40F & L, 29 hours
1 Novenber 1943 - 21 February 1944 27th
Fighter Bomber Group, Italy, A-36A, 39 missions, 76.3 hours
5 July- 18 August 15 missions in P-47D
26 May- 5 July Instructed in P-40's at Page
Field, Fort Myers FL.
5 May through August 1945 Flew as target
aircraft for B-17 crew photogunnery training. Great duty. Nothing but fun. A great way to end a
career!
ca 1985 Flew a PT-17 for 2.4 hours. My training, combat and post-combat flying can be found at:
http://www.charlies-web.com/WWII_med/Post_War_Log.htm My post-war flying can be found at: http://www.charlies-web.com/WWII_med/Post_War_Log.htm
1929 My uncle JC took me up in a barnstorming
Ford Trimotor off a hayfield in LaMoure North Dakota. It cost 2 cents a pound, a dollar minimum, I
weighed 47 pounds.
1937 I attended the first National Boy Scout
Jamboree in Washington DC. They were very nice to the Boy Scouts. I took a ride in the Goodyear
blimp 'Enterprise' for a buck!
1941
I entered the CPT (Civilian Pilot Training) program at North Dakota
Agricultural College at Fargo ND.
18 November1941
Soloed in a Piper J-4 Cub Coupe!
January 1942 Received Private Pilot License #
160066.
February 1942 Entered Secondary Pilot Training
in Waco UPF-7. Soloed. Got about 30 hours when instructor, Johnny Nelson, was taken into the Navy as an
instructor.
May 1942 Took USAAF test and
enlisted.
2 September 1942 Arrived at USAAF Classification
Center in Nashville Tennessee.
~9 September1942 Preflight Training, Maxwell
Field, Montgomery, AL
11 November 1942 Primary Flying School, Augustine
Field, Jackson MS, PT-17, 60 hours
~30 January 1943 Basic Flying School, Courtland
AL, Vultee BT-13, 60 hours
~1 April 1943 - 28 May 1943 Advanced Flying School,
Craig Field, Selma AL, AT-6, 64 hours, P-40, 10 hours
22 February - 27 May 1944 27th FBG, Italy, P-40F,
40 missions, 101.15 hours
5 May- 12 May TDY (temporary duty)
Naples/Anzio Courier Service, Cessna UC-78, 8 round trips to Anzio, 21 hours
December 1990 Flew Crazy Horse for an hour.
March 2005 Flew an AT-6 at Warbird Adventure
for an hour.
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