This is a photo of my father Glenn Preston Wheeler and mother Lily Eleanor Campbell at their wedding which took place on 2 November 1941 in Chula Vista, California when he was stationed in San Diego. The very next month the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he left very soon thereafter. He found out later in a letter that my mother was pregnant. His first son was born while he fought in Europe but he would not see his son for a few years. Had he not survived the 30 bombing missions over Germany he would never have seen his son nor would he have five more sons and one daughter including myself. To us dad was always a hero and larger than life. Had it not been for him and the other soldiers of the “greatest generation” America would not have become a world leader and the government of the people may have vanished from the earth and replaced by the National Socialism of Germany.

Neil Wheeler

Glen Preston Wheeler - listed on WW 11 page

Glen Preston Wheeler - obit info