Oh man, color me GREEN with envy....he most definitely did go to war. I don't have access to the photos but there is one here of him as a LTC in desert maneuvers in California in 1943 before going to Germany by this time he was a LTC:

http://ww2f.com/threads/980th-field-...germany.45192/

And he was at Fort Sill in Oklahoma in 1946 after the war:

http://sill-www.army.mil/firesbullet...LL_EDITION.pdf