Editor’s note: This tribute is one in a series of reader-submitted tributes to World War II-era veterans that will be posted during April.

John O’Neill, USAAF

HOMETOWN: Port Orchard (born 1919, died 2007).

BRANCH: U.S. Army Air Force.

YEARS OF SERVICE: Three or four years.

HIGHEST RANK ATTAINED: Not known; he was a B-17 pilot.

SIGNIFICANT DUTY STATIONS OR DEPLOYMENTS DURING THE WAR: Stationed in Arizona, California and Montana.

POST-WAR CAREER: Farmed the family farm, worked for Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, served on the Olympic College Board of Trustees.