WITH WAR IN EUROPE OFFICIALLY OVER, it became very busy again for me as a C-47 pilot transporting all these troops to various parts in Europe for their “trip” back to the States. In late July of ’45 I got the notion that I wanted to come home, too. After 90 days leave, I was transferred to Wright Field in Ohio.
On a Monday morning in the summer of 1946, four or five of us test pilots were detailed to head down to the HQ section of flight test and report to Colonel Council, who was in charge of it at that time. We all sat in a room, tucked away from any other military or civilian staff. The
