Gerald Teldon can’t remember many of the 62 missions he flew aboard a P-47 Thunderbolt,...
World War II veteran, Lt. Gerald Teldon, 97, is presented with military medals earned during the conflict in Europe on Friday, July 29, 2022. Telson, who will turn 98 in a few weeks, was surrounded by more than two dozen family members in a ceremony at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life & Learning. Teldon, who now lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, received the medals from his grandchildren and his 13-year-old great-grandchild whose Bar Mitzvah the family is celebrating this weekend.
The event, at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life & Learning in San Antonio, offered the family a rare chance to see Teldon, who lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and hear the war stories firsthand. The plane’s aerodynamics were definitely different — and nearly fatal. He clipped a tree on his first pass, unable to pull up quickly, and it jostled one of the tubes.
“At that time I was 15 years old, and my goodness, there I was sitting in an aeroplane flying over New York City and just at that moment I made up my mind I was going to be a pilot,” he said. “And then came World War II.” “Very seldom did I get over 4,000 or 5,000 feet,” he said. “It may sound funny, but I never saw another German plane on the ground or in the air. Anything that moved on the ground, local transport, cars, trains, buses — and you know the interesting thing is, people had to ask me, ‘Did you ever kill anybody?’ That’s a hell of a thing to ask.”
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