"There was lots of comments about the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor, and what were we going to do, because they had practically destroyed our naval ability. The equipment we had on standby to fight a war was little if anything. It's amazing to me, and it was amazing in those days, how we gathered things together. And our industrial compound just was amazing, how it jumped in there and built airplanes and tanks and everything, you know, ships. It was amazing."
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Don Geery was born in Iowa and first moved to Nebraska when he joined the Army Air Corps in the first days of World War II. He was stationed at the Fairmont airfield where he trained as an electrician and gunnery instructor on the B-29. Eventually, he was stationed on Tinian Island – the same base from which the Enola Gay flew to drop the first atomic bomb. After the war, Don moved back to York County, married Lavonne, furthered his education through the GI Bill and went to work for Consumer's Public Power District. He was an avid baseball player & coach throughout his life. He passed on in April 2009.
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