In Search Of Our Fathers On Memorial Day

Diesel Aircraft Engines - Martin M. Georges - Google Books. On this Memorial Day, when we honor those who died in service of their country, I want to honor my father, Martin M. Georges, who was an Army Air Corps Pilot, and died in a plane crash in New Mexico in the early Fifties. I was 5, and grew up without him. While I had a great step-dad and great family growing up, I always had a curiosity about him. I knew that he had graduated from the University of Cincinnati, with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, and that he had served with my mom in the Korean War. However, I never knew that he wrote his thesis in College on Diesel Aircraft Engines, nor that a copy of it is still in the University archives. This photo of him, and his Captain's Bars, are my prized possessions. How many other sons have lost their Dads in military service? I honor him today, along with millions of others who gave their last full measure of devotion to their country. Rest in peace, Dad.

Captain Martin M. Georges