Four Sioux Cityans Receive Wings
Four Sioux Cityans are among the many pilots of the gulf coast air force training center to be graduated today, and the four will receive the coveted silver wings of the army air force.
Graduation marks completion of 27 weeks of intensive training. The four Sioux Cityans and the field from which they are to be graduated are; Roman N. Lamberto, 914 Jackson Street, Ellington field; Henry G. Mohr, 1701 South Paxton Street, Moore; Charles H. Roadman, 3823 Garretson Avenue, Ellington; and Richard P. Hoffman, 2114 George Street, Foster.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, August 5, 1942 (photo included)
Charles Harvey “Chuck” Roadman, Sr. was born July 7, 1914 to Earl Alan and Irma Lucretia Keene Roadman. He died Jan. 11, 2000 and is buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, TX.
Maj. Gen. Roadman served with the U.S. Air Force in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. During WWII he assisted in the development of the Central Pilot Instructor’s School of the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war, he was assigned to the School of Aviation Medicine as Chief of the Preventive Medicine Division as operations and executive officer. In 1960 he was assigned to the National Aeronautics and became director in 1961. He was director of Aerospace Medicine, Manned Spaceflight, NASA, for the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and the Manned Lunar Landing projects. In 1963 he as assigned to Headquarters Air Defense Command, Air Force Base, Colorado, as command surgeon. He assumed command of the Aerospace Medical Division, Brooks Air Force Base, TX and later served in the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973. His son, Lt. Gen. Charles H. Roadman, Jr. became the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General.
Source: ancestry.com
