Il est marié avec Dorothy Anne Cotton.
Ils se sont mariés le 1 décembre 1944 à Casper (Natrona,Wyoming, USA), il avait 30 ans.
BIOGRAPHY:
• Philip Ogden Doornbos was the third child born in the family.
• Philip as a young child, lived in the Rock Creek Township of Butler County.
• Before 1930, Philip and his family moved to the Prospect Township in Butler County.
• Philip graduated in 1935 from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas with a BS degree in business administration.
• On his Army enlistment application, Philip listed Kansas as birthplace and Peoria County, Illinois as current residence.
• "Enlisting at the age of approximately 26 on December 31, 1940, Philip O. Doornbos was an aviation cadet in the Air Corps branch of the Regular Army during World War II. At the time of enlistment, Philip O. Doornbos was single, without dependents, stood 73 inches tall, weighed 173 pounds, and had an education level of 4 years of college. Philip O. Doornbos was born in 1914, and identified as white."
• After completing pilot training in 1941, Philip was assigned in the Southwest Pacific to fly combat missions on B-24 Liberator bombers. On a B-24 raid against a Japanese station near Papua, New Guinea, he was forced to crash into the ocean and was severely wounded. He and surviving crew members were rescued. He was sent stateside recovering his wounds and assigned to Casper Army Air Base, Wyoming as an instructor pilot.
• Philip married Dorothy COTTON on Dec 1, 1943 in Casper Natrona, Wyoming.
• Philip was with the 19th Bomb Group at the beginning of the Korean Conflict, where he was now flying B-29 Bombers.
• After the Korean Conflict, Philip spent considerable military service at March Air Reserve Base, Riverside County, California, where he was made an Air Force B-47 Group Commander with the rank as a regular Air Force Colonel.
• After 25 years of total military service including also being a University of Wyoming ROTC instructor in Laramie, Philip retired as a Colonel USAF.
• His later endeavors in life involved golfing, his ranch outside of Casper, and many functions and endearments at the Casper College in Wyoming.
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Dorothy Anne Cotton |