World War II Honoree
World War II Veteran
Leonard W. Wegner Jr
Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Chicago, Illinois
Honored By
A Grateful American
Entered the US Army Air Force in January 1943, he attended its pre-meteorology program at Denison University for one year in preparation for becoming a weather forecaster. When the program was halted in 1944, he served first as a weather observer and then as an evaluator in the USAAF's net of emergency direction-finding radio stations on the East Coast.