I was a crew member on a B-29 Super Fortress during World War II. I was the Central Fire Control person. The B-29 was the first bomber that had remote control turrets. I had control of the two upper gun turrets.

I trained at Clovis, New Mexico air field in 1944. We picked up our B-29 in Herrington, KS in the summer of 1944. We flew to West Palm Beach, FL, then on to British New Guyana, then on to Natal, Brazil. From there we flew over the Atlantic. Our fuel transfer system went out and we landed at Robert's Field in the Liberia, Africa. We were out of gas and just barely made it. On our first mission, after arriving at Dudkundi, India, we ditched our B-29 in the India Ocean about 100 miles off the coast of Burma. Eleven of twelve survived and we were picked up by the Royal Indian Navy.

I was wounded on our second mission by a Japanese Zero. .Our plane did not go down, but landed safely at a British Base at Cox's Bazaar in Northern Burma.