![]() US Navy Reserve V-12 Program - summer of 1943 CadetĬivilian Aeronautical Engineer - Flight Test Center Wright Field, OH Graduated - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY Graduated - Hudson Falls High School, Hudson Falls, NY Parents - Leo and Gladys LaFountain of Hudson Falls, NY Hobbies Included - Photography, Golf, Drafting, Musicīorn - Jin Luzurne, NY, the youngest of 2 children Last assignment - Flight Engineer, Flight Test Center Wright Field, OH Rejoined - US Army - After December 7, 1941 Joined - the US Army - summer of 1934 serving 3 yearsĮmployment - Civilian at Norfolk Naval Station Graduated - Yale University New Haven, CT Graduated - Greatbridge High School, Fentress, VA Wife - former Edna Hayman of Virginia Beach, VA. Parents - Rudolph and Eula Swindell of Virginia Beach, VA Hobbies included - Hunting, Dancing, Cooking, Snow Skiingīorn - April 22, 1916, Hyde County, North Carolina Last assignment - Test Pilot, Flight Test Center Wright Field, OH Joined - the US Army - summer of 1941 as an Aviation CadetĪccomplished - 50 combat missions flying the A-20 Bomber in North Africa, sometimes completing 5 missions in one day. Graduated - Princeton University Princeton, NJ Graduated - University of California at Berkeley ![]() Graduated - Lincoln High School Lincoln, CA Parents - Claude and Mary Edwards of Lincoln, CA Joined - the US Army - as an Aviation Cadetīecame - one of the pioneers of strategic photoreconnaissance flying combat missions from bases in North Africa and India piloting the B-17, B-24, and several other aircraft.Ĭontinued - the photoreconnaissance missions in the Pacific theater flying the B-29 airframe (re-designated F-13) and continued through the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests.īorn - Main Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada, the youngest of 8 children Graduated - North High School Wichita, KSĪttended - Wichita University Wichita, KS (now Wichita State University)Īttended Kansas State College, Manhattan, KS (now Kansas State University)
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