Courtesy of AirwayFlightServices.  Piper J-3, Famous Cub --Chicago Loop over Meigs Field at Lake Michigan

Most of World War II pilots of all the armed services soloed in this trustworthy aircraft. I flew with my students here. I was 16 years old--they were 18 or older. They were aviation cadets and officers training at Northwestern University, Evantson, Illinois and at Palwaukee Airport just outside of Chicago. Palwaukee had a single rutted dirt cowpath leading to the airdrome. I was recruited by Northwestern University to teach these cadets and officers radio code and a little theory. I was very impressed with teaching when these older guys sprung to attention with great respect when I came into the classroom.

I fervently hope that the dits and dahs, A's and N's I taught them, helped them fly the beam safely home.

At age 18, I went on active duty and became the student - for a while - rather than the teacher.

My Pilot Log-First two pages-1941-1942-Before Pearl Harbor and Post Pearl Harbor

Aviation-Where I learned to Fly in Famous CUB J3, Palwaukee,Ill, World War II.

Below is my Alma Mater's Airport,  Purdue University, vintage 1943. whence begot my Undergraduate Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering. The student standing at the prop is not glueing it on--he is about to wind up the engine--no electric starter----manual----switch-off, switch-on, contact.

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From author, Stephen Ambrose---American Heritage Magazine---LEARN A LOT FROM THE VETERANS. Lt. Sidney Lowery was a field artillery liaison pilot. He said he and his friends flew the Piper Cubs without wearing  parachutes, which would have been useless at the altitudes they flew anyway, and besides, “it was safer to stay in the Piper Cub when hit because of its aeronautical characteristics, which often enabled the pilot to make an emergency landing.” Lowery added that “our greatest danger was friendly fire. Each of us was flying missions to direct fire by our own division artillery, but at the same time, and further back, Corps artillery were conducting their own missions, with larger caliber weapons, totally unaware of what we were doing. So as we were directing our own unit’s fire while flying over the front line, we frequently felt a sort of ‘whoosh’ and a bump, as the Corps artillery shell passed by. I had more than one chum who was shot down by our own artillery.”

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