A look back: July 21, 1945

Aviation Cadet Cletus Herman, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Herman of 212 Center St., East Mauch Chunk, has begun an 18-week training period at the Childress Army Air Field, Childress, Texas, to earn his wings as a bombardier-navigator.

Upon graduation as a dual-rated second lieutenant or flight officer, he will be ready to join a track crew of one of the big guns of the AAF such as the B-29, the Superfortress now delivering knockout blows to the enemy.

Cadet Herman, a veteran of service in the South Pacific, will become skilled in the operations of America’s most deadly weapons, the bombsight, and in the science of dead reckoning navigation.