A Lineage Rekindled

This story is an account of events in the lives of two brothers of solid Minnesota farm stock, and their sole living relative, an elderly maid and heiress to the Herjolfsson family estate.The brothers had returned from World War II having served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as decorated combat pilots. Now far from the daily excitement and grandeur, that of dashing Air Force pilot officers they were seen by prim Aunt Julia as wallowing about in a state of affairs lacking in any show of the kind of gumption true to their ancestry.Embarrassed by the blight they had placed on the family name Julia agonized over a method to get her beloved nephews back on track.

Born and raised in a small town in northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains, he started flying during WW II and at age 19 became a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot. After the war he found work flying for nonscheduled airlines until called back to active duty in the Air Force to fl y C-54's on the Berlin Airlift. At the outbreak of the Korean War it was off to fly C-47's and C-54's in the Combat Cargo Command until his return to civilian life in 1953 and returning to civil air carriers, finishing his commercial piloting career as personal pilot to the president of a major US corporation based in San Francisco in 1990. The author and his wife, Genevieve, have made their home in the US Pacific Northwest.