In 1967, he was named Chief, U-2 Branch, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. In early 1965, then Captain Amundson was assigned as a pilot of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Their five children and their many grandchildren and great-grandchildren have been of the utmost importance to him. During his B-47 tour, he earned a bachelor s degree. He served as B-47 Aircrew Commander with the 310th Bombardment Wing, Schilling Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas, until 1965, with tours of duty in Alaska, Guam, England, Spain, and North Africa. He completed advanced flight training in the B-47 nuclear bomber. Air Force flight training in May 1956 and was commissioned a second lieutenant.
After graduating from high school, he studied at the University of Minnesota for a year before entering the U.S.
Amundson, USAF, Retired (2018)Ĭolonel John Amundson was born on January 31, 1935, in Decorah, Iowa. He is very proud and pleased to have had the wonderful lifelong experience of being able to make the contributions he made for a great country like the United States.Ĭol. Abrams also received three honorary degrees for his contributions to aviation and to society.Ībrams was enshrined on Decemfor his long and illustrious career in developing the state-of-the-art aerial photography adopted and used around the world today. 282, signed by Orville Wright, and the United States Transport Pilot License No. He is especially proud of the fact he has Federation Aeronautique International Pilot License No. Abrams himself has lived, worked, and traveled in 96 countries.Ībrams has received many honors, one of which was his initiation into the OX-5 Aviation Hall of Fame. Since its start in 1923, the company annually completes precision aerial surveys and remote sensing for thousands of highways, transmission and pipe lines miles for states, counties, cities, and industry. He made his first aerial survey for the Michigan State Highway Department in September of 1925 using aerial cameras that he himself developed. He left the airline industry and founded Abrams Aerial Survey Corporation in 1923. He married and started the ABC Airline (Always Be Carful) in 1922. His lifelong interests in aviation centered on experimental aircraft, commercial airline services and aerial photography.Ībrams served in the Aviation Section, United States Marine Corps, and the United States Air Corps from 1917-1919 during and after World War I. Talbert "Ted" Abrams was born in Tekonsha, Michigan on August 17, 1895.
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