Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Sid Glenn earned the Distinguished Flying Cross on one of his...
on one of his 50 missions during the Korean War, but it’s not a subject he ever brought up — not even with his late wife.
When North Korea launched the war with a lightning invasion of the south on June 25, 1950, Glenn was called up to active duty and found himself in the thick of things, flying those missions as a Douglas B-26 Invader navigator-bombardier. Trading sunny Los Angeles for icy Amarillo in the winter, he began his journey as one of more than 16 million Americans who joined the military in World War II, the most of any conflict in the nation’s history.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Sid Glenn earned the Distinguished Flying Cross on one of his 50 missions during the Korean War, but it’s not a subject he’s ever talked about - not even to his wife. “I don’t know if I can even talk and I didn’t really want to,” he said.The airmen had been told they’d spend six months in school, but the course was cut in half as he studied algebra.
Awarded his officer commission on Aug. 18, 1945, Glenn quickly found there was no war in the Pacific to fight. Given a choice of staying or leaving, he decided to remain in uniform and went to San Antonio, where he supervised physical training at Lackland.After leaving the Air Force in 1946 and joining the reserves, Glenn enrolled at Arizona State and played quarterback and defensive back for the Sun Devils from 1947-48.
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