Raymond Kleber:
CLASS OF 1943
Aliquippa High SchoolClass of 1943
Aliquippa, PA
Raymond's Story
As the 1943 yearbook said under my photo "Will have an aviation Career. I remember making a photo of our High School for the 1942 Class of the Alliquippian. Had soloed on 28 August 1941, joined the Civil Air Patrol on 1 December
1941 just before Pearl Harbor. Received the Congressional Gold Medal, last year on the 10th of December for being a
CAP member 73 years earlier. Roy Rodgers, Ralph Queener and I joined the Air Corps on 25 February shortly after we Graduated. I spent the next 32+ years in the Air Force after we became a separate service. Saw lots of places we
read about in the newspapers. From the occupation of Germany to the four Atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islan...Expand for more
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in 1951. Alaska, Germany, Holland, Turkey, Thailand and Vietnam, back to Germany and after 24 moves settled in
Goldsboro, home of the Fourth Fighter Wing as Base Commander. I continue to fly into my 90th year on Gods earth.
I recognize how the Lord has Blessed me greatly for allowing me to serve my Country and accomplish so much in my
life. Our Nation needs a turn around where we get back to the Constitution, the 10 Commandments and respect one another. I am a 20+ gallon donor of blood to the Red Cross, active with almost 30 years of volunteer service to our Base Pharmacy and other civic and military organizations. God is Good! A PhD in the cockpit and a lad from Aliquippa!
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