IOWA AVIATION MUSEUM

Born on Febrwuary 9, 1960, Peggy Whitson grew up on the family farm near Beaconsfield, Iowa. She graduated from Mount Ayr High School, received a Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa Wesleyan College and a Doctorate in biochemistry from Rice…

George Everette Day was born in Sioux City, Iowa on February 24, 1925. In 1942, he dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Marines. He served two and a half years in the South Pacific during World War…

Born in Missouri, Olin “Olie†Pash came to Iowa as a young child. He was educated in Harlan, Iowa. After serving in the Navy, he returned to Harlan and became a farm implement dealer. In 1987, he became the manager…

Milford L. Juhl was born in Guthrie County. At the age of 12, he was sent to live with an uncle when his mother died. He graduated from high school in Nevada, Iowa. Milford joined the Army after Pearl Harbor…

Fred M. Wallace was born in Davenport, Iowa on the 4th of July in 1900. In 1919, he and his brother Frank formed the Wallace Brothers Aero Company and established Wallace Field, the first airport in Bettendorf. The brothers provided…

Irwin (Irv) Lindner was born in Keokuk, Iowa in 1916. He became interested in flying early in his childhood; although, his early attempts at flying were disastrous, jumping from haystacks on the family farm with homemade wings. This did not…

Carroll T. Tomkins was born in Stockport, Iowa in 1923. Carroll T. “TOMMY†Tomkins career would take him from the aerial battlefields of World War II to the operations of a successful southwest Iowa flight service and continued as a…

Marie Mountain Clark was born at West Liberty in 1915. Reared on a farm in West Des Moines, Iowa, she and her younger sister were assigned to turn on the aircraft marker lights on the Des Moines Radio Range tower. …

Colonel Charles C. Bock was born on November 24, 1925, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Col. Charles C. ‘Charlie’ Bock, Jr. graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering in 1949. He had a long and distinguished…

Jerome C. Hunsaker was born on August 26, 1886, at Creston, Iowa. Hunsaker was admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1904, and graduated at the head of his class in 1908. He obtained an appointment to MIT…