My Trails into the Past

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. My husband’s father, George J. Gorrell, was twenty-eight years old when he was inducted into the Army Air Corps on 27 July 1943 in San Francisco, California. [1] He was single and had been living in Sacramento. Previously he had left his hometown of Webb City, Missouri to attend the Curtiss Wright Technical Institute in Glendale, California. [2] He completed the Master Aviation Mechanic Course of 1920 hours on 11 July 1941. He was living there as a student when he filled out the draft registration on 16 October 1940. [3] He later worked at the Sacramento Air Depot at the McClellan Field in Sacramento, California. He completed another course in Hydraulics on 25 May 1942. [4] His occupation there was a landi...