MY MEMORIES

Charles Glenn Petersen

Hopedale

We were given 30 days leave which we spent in central Iowa around Churdan, where our father was now working as Manager of the Farmers Co-op Elevator. He was basically a grain dealer, buying and selling grain, and a provider of livestock feed and fertilizer to the farmers. He had moved from Terril shortly before we joined the Air Force.

Ed and I boarded a bus in Jefferson, Iowa, for the long trip to McQuire AFB across the Hudson River from New York City in New Jersey. We had a few days there processing and made at least one trip into Manhattan. I don’t remember much about Manhattan nor how we got there but I do remember riding the subway heading for Broadway and 42nd Street. We got off the subway the first time we saw a Broadway subway stop. We were in the Bowery and a long way from our target destination.

From McQuire AFB we were flown in a C 54 aircraft to Goose Bay AFB in Labrador. The aircraft had 4 propeller engines and very uncomfortable seats that faced backward, plus it was very noisy.

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