Tag: Willis C. Abernathy

As any good southerner would, Willis Abernathy lied about his age in order to join the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Those lies left him wounded at Iwo Jima, and brought him home with a Purple Heart. As a civilian, he taught at a flight school in California before he took to the sky, permanently, on June 30^th, 1995, landing at the San Francisco National Cemetery. One final touchdown, alpha bravo.