Lost another old-timer this month. He was my uncle; Donald Glenn Potter. Joined the US Army Air Corps in 1942 as a 2nd Lt., and ended the war as a Captain. Served as a navigator in a B24, 8th Air Force, 44th Bomb Group, 67th Squadron. 35 missions over occupied Europe.
In civilian life he went on to obtain his PHD and was a professor at a university until his retirement in 1985. He was 99 when he passed. He was the last of my mother’s and father’s brothers and sisters (there were 15 of them) And almost all were involved in WWII and/or Korea as either service members or “Rosie the Riveters”. At age 77 I know I’ll never meet another generation like those gone before me, but I hope the younger members will see their like some day in the future.
In civilian life he went on to obtain his PHD and was a professor at a university until his retirement in 1985. He was 99 when he passed. He was the last of my mother’s and father’s brothers and sisters (there were 15 of them) And almost all were involved in WWII and/or Korea as either service members or “Rosie the Riveters”. At age 77 I know I’ll never meet another generation like those gone before me, but I hope the younger members will see their like some day in the future.
