Marvin Strunk

Marvin M. Strunk enlisted at Ft. Riley, Kansas. Strunk was an Aviation Cadet with the 392 Observation Training Program. He trained at various Air Corps bases in Texas and Liberal, Kansas. This gave him the military occupation of pilot, very heavy bomber-B 24, B 29. Following honorable discharge February 7, 1944, from the Aviation Cadet, he was enlisted Februrary 8, 1944, as 1st Lt. Marvin M. Strunk stationed with the Air Corps 2517th AAF Base Unit Ellington Field Texas. The war ended and he returned to Dickinson County, Kansas, following an honorable discharge on March 25, 1946. He remained in the Air Corps Reserve for two years.