December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese; April 21, 1942 Joined Army Air Corps; October 20, 1942 Left home for cadet training at San Francisco, TX;



November 13, 1942 Started ground school; February 17, 1943 Reported to Jones Field, Bonham, TX, for primary flight training; April 23, 1943 Basic flight training at Majors Field, Greenville, TX; June 27, 1943 Advanced flight training at Ellington Field, Houston, TX;



August 30, 1943 Graduated 2nd Lt., Pilot rating and Reported to Berkowitz Provisioning Group, Pyote AAB, TX; Spetember 15, 1943 Group transferred to Alexandria AAB, LA;



November 25, 1943 assigned new B-17 at Kearney AAB, NE; December 4, 1943 Flew to Bangor, ME; December 9, 1943 Flew to Gander, Newfoundland; December 18, 1943 Overseas flight to Valley, Wales;



December 31, 1943 Assigned to 91st BG at Bassingbourn, England; January 1944 Procedural and Area flight training at Bassingbourn; February 3, 1944 first bombing mission;



March 6, 1944 9th bombing mission to Berlin--Shot down over Berlin 6 March 1944 in B-17 'Hell and High Water. ' Prisoner of War (POW).



Arrived at Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany. Prisoner of War (POW) for 14 months;

March 3, 1945 Liberated by the Russians;



March 8, 1945 Arrived at Camp Lucky Strike, Le Havre, France; V-E Day; May 15, 1945 Left Le Havre for Portsmouth, England, then to Boston, by boat;



June 2, 1945 Arrived home in St. Louis Park, MN; September 5, 1945 Reported to Miami Beach for rehabilitation and reassignment; End of September Assigned to Douglas AAB, Arizona; Flew B-25's; October 1945 Reported to Truax Field, WI, for separation from the Army Air Corps. Arrived home on October 30, 1945, in time for the holidays.



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