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Capt. Wallace “Wally” B. Thomson from Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, was a marine fighter pilot during WWII. After college and teaching high school, he entered flight training mon...mehr sehenAbout the Author
Capt. Wallace “Wally” B. Thomson from Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, was a marine fighter pilot during WWII. After college and teaching high school, he entered flight training months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Wally flew sixty-one missions in the Pacific over a twenty-one-month period. He and his wife, Jane, raised three children. He enjoyed an exceptional career in the aerospace industry, earning six patents and the Engineer of the Year award. Wally published more than sixty technical and scientific papers and reports and cowrote the book of his brother, John, about John’s career as a famous race aviator and commercial pilot.weniger sehen