Bill Clark

Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force
1939–1960
Resident, Belmont Village Sunnyvale, CA

“I signed up after seeing the Flying Cadets at Randolph Field. The war started three months later. I was assigned to Langley Field, where we bombed submarines that were close to Puerto Rico. After nineteen months, I was given an appointment to West Point via my Missouri Congressman. I was in the P-51 Fighter group in Japan when the war ended. I received a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. I worked as a contracting officer in peacetime Germany.”