But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
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Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.
I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.
I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.
After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
I spent one semester in Air Force ROTC, as I wanted to be a pilot.
My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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