Hard to Realize - Oregon Connections to the End of the War in the Pacific
Patrick O’Grady flew a C-46 Commando to the China-Burma-India theater in early 1945 and then joined a C-54 Skymaster transport unit of the Air Transport Command. He flew 79 round-trip missions over the Himalaya Mountains. After the war, he was in the Air Force Reserve, then joined the Oregon Air National Guard. He commanded the 123rd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 142nd Fighter Group and later the Oregon ANG. Brigadier General O’Grady is seen here in the 1970s, in his favorite position, flying, perhaps reflected in his grin, in the left seat up front flying the Oregon ANG’s Convair C-131 Samaritan twin-engine transport. As a long-serving airline captain after the war, he accrued over 33,000 flying hours in dozens of military and civilian aircraft types during his flying career. (142nd Wing History Archive)
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