As you have been doing some reading you want
to move right into Thinking in Numbers but first it is Veterans’ Day and
you saw several friends on FB honoring their fathers so you may as well also.
Your father Richard Bookman Orndorff served in the Engineer Corps of the U. S.
Army. From your point of view the most important ‘campaign’ he was in was the
in liberation of Dachau. Earlier blog notes contain more details. For instance,
during World War II, as a chemist he worked at the Chicago munitions plant,
worked for a short time at Oak Ridge (Manhattan Project), was with the Third
Army Combat Engineers and in part helped free prisoners from the Nazi Dachau
death camp, and as he spoke German he helped interrogate, disseminate and bring
German scientists to work for the United States after the war. He would have
gone to Korea but diabetes prevented his continuing military service. He was
retired as a Lieutenant in the U. S. Army. He has a military marking at his
gravesite in Otterbein Cemetery, not a hundred yards (across the street) from
where he lived as a child at the corner of Knox and Walnut Streets. Your Uncle
Ernie (Warren W. Ernsberger) said your father was a good man. Ernie also served,
first with RAF Intelligence before and during the Battle of Britain and later
served in Intelligence under General Patton. – Amorella
2139 hours. This is how I remember it.
I honor them both as well as the many others, civilians also (my grandmother,
Elizabeth Mae Freeman Schick, and Carol’s grandmother, Grace Josephine Flook
Cook, best friends in life, who worked at the Kilgore’s Munitions Plant in Westerville,
Ohio), who served. – rho
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