Patsy volunteered as a private soldier on 7 Jan 1942. As a recent college graduate who had pursued a course in mathematics and physics, he was just what the USAAF was looking for to train in meteorology. After nine months of AAF training, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the USAAF and deployed to RAF Gosfield as a member of the 18th Weather Squadron. On 18 Jun 1944 Patsy, the station weather officer, provided a statement describing the previous day's weather in the area of RAF Gosfield as part of a report on the death of Major Wayne W. Brown, whose P-51C apparently came apart in a dive during a training flight and crashed sone 3-1/2 air miles north of Patsy's location. This writer remembers Patsy not personally, but through the writer's 2020 purchase of the fountain pen Patsy received as a high-school graduation present and carried for years thereafter.