Pottawattamie County

Lt. Ralph R. Rockwell

 

 

WINS COMMISSION in ARMY AIR CORPS

Ralph R. Rockwell, who was graduated this week from the advanced training course at Fort Sumner, N. M., and commissioned a second lieutenant, is spending a leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Rockwell, 1738 Avenue E.

A graduate of Thomas Jefferson high school in 1940, he was employed at the Union Pacific railroad prior to entering army air forces 15 months ago.

Lt. Rockwell’s brother, Clarence Rockwell, is attending officers’ candidate school at the army air corps base in San Antonio, Tex.

Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Sunday, July 02, 1944, Page 8