Entered service at Ft. Sill, OK February 1942. Joined 392nd BG August 1943. Rank at the end of WWII was 1st Lieutenant. Charles retired from the Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1968.



Charles met his wife Helen at an officers' tea dance on March 23rd 1943. He married her on his birthday, 26th June 1943. Sadly he had to ship out soon afterwards.



Charles' wife, Helen, was from Milwaukee and the couple lived there after the war. Charles finished college at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and then completed a degree in law at the University of Illinois in Chicago.



Charles was recalled to active duty during the Korean War and served as a Staff Officer in a Fighter-Bomber Wing.



In October 1961, it was Charles's job to announce to the enlisted men mid-base party that they were being recalled to active duty and had to assemble at 7.30am the next morning. During the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis Charles he was a squadron commander in a Troop Carrier Wing.

The Troop Carrier Wing's aircraft were at Ft. Knox, Kentucky but Charles's base was at Milwaukee.



Charles and Helen are Founding Members of the American Air Museum and met the Queen at the dedication ceremony in 1997.