Abstract Gerald D. Chadderdon was born on October 9, 1922 in Friendship, New York but grew up in Olean, NY. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force as a cadet in 1942 and did basic training at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. He graduated the summer of 1944 from the Army Air Forces Pilot School in Craig Field, Selma, Alabama as part of the Class 44-F. It was then that he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and received his "Silver Wings." He was a First Pilot in heavy bombers during the final...