Ihde, Roy C., 1929-
Biographical notes:
Ihde (b.1929) was born on a dairy farm near Peshtigo, Wisconsin and graduated from high school in Marinette, Wisconsin.
He enlisted in the Air Force at age seventeen and, after twenty-one years of service, retired at the rank of major. During his career as a fighter pilot, his service areas included occupied Germany, occupied Japan, Texas, Alaska, Maryland, Maine, Montana, Washington, and Arizona. As a civilian, Ihde flew for the Ansul Chemical Company and for Menominee Rubber. He had three children and eventually settled in Green Bay (Wisconsin).
From the description of Oral history interview with Roy C. Ihde [sound recording], 2008. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 690698907
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Subjects:
- Airmen
- Air pilots
- Air pilots, Military
- Atomic bomb
- Cold War
- Cold War
- Shooting Star (Jet fighter plane)
- Thunderjet (Jet fighter plane)
- Thunderstreak (Fighter planes)
- Unidentified flying objects
- Veterans
- War memorials
- World War, 1939-1945
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Places:
- Alaska (as recorded)
- Malmstrom AFB (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Wisconsin--Marinette (as recorded)
- Germany--Berlin (as recorded)
- Fürstenfeldbruck (Germany) (as recorded)
- Dow Air Force Base (Me.) (as recorded)
- Wisconsin--Green Bay (as recorded)
- Germany--Munich (as recorded)
- Bergstrom Air Force Base (Tex.) (as recorded)
- Larson Air Force Base (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Ladd Air Force Base (Alaska) (as recorded)
- Germany (as recorded)
- Bastogne (Belgium) (as recorded)
- Wisconsin--Peshtigo (as recorded)
- Japan (as recorded)
