Meanwhile, in 1945 his dad had purchased some farmland on Northwest Dogwood Lane in Madras from Fritz and Fannie Haberstich. We would fly to Manila to get mail, and otherwise look for hazards to navigation and any downed pilots," he said.Īfter his discharge in 1946, he returned home to marry Margorie Ward in Caldwell, Idaho. "Three days after the war was over, I was sent to the Philippines for nine months - postwar. Glenn said the huge plane "had a galley, four bunks and took off from and landed on water." They had flown to San Diego in 1945 and were training for anti-submarine work, when World War II ended. Navy air corps in 1943, and was trained as an aviation ordnance gunner and radar operator.Īfter boot camp in Pasco, Wash., and rescue and patrol training in Memphis, Tenn., his 12-person crew assembled in Florida to practice flying their PBM-5 Mariner (patrol bomber seaplane). He played baseball and basketball, and graduated from Homedale High School with a class of 40 students in 1942.Īfter one term studying agriculture at the University of Idaho, he enlisted in the U.S. He attended Homedale Grade School, which had large classes due to it being a big agricultural area with lots of families. "We had hogs, three dairy cows and two work horses which we used until about 1935, when dad got a tractor," Glenn said, adding, the only horses he and his siblings had to ride were the draft horses. Glenn grew up on the farm helping with chores of taking hay to the sheep and later spraying and pruning trees in their apple, prune and apricot orchards. His parents farmed and his dad taught school in Wilder and Homedale, Idaho. was born March 10, 1924, in Wilder, Idaho, the youngest of six children of Glenn and Bertha Eidemiller. Eighty-three-year-old Pioneer Man Glenn Eidemiller Jr.
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