When finished training for aircraft mechanic he was transferred to pilot training and was assigned to fly the C-47. He returned to the Aleutians after the war working on salvage operations with his brother Bob.īob Eads had a love for aviation and signed up for whatever aviation positions the Army Air Corp had to offer. He was involved in a burial unit retrieving the bodies of service men around the state and participated in body recovery for downed Canadian flyers at Makushin Bay. He trained as a heavy weapons operator and had the chance to test his skills as Japanese and Allied aircraft fought over Umnak in early June 1942. Inducted in the Army just days before Pearl Harbor, his construction equipment skills would be put to use when he arrived in Chernofsky Bay on Umnak Island. Mac Eads grew up in Nebraska and joined the CCC building duck habitat in his home state before the war broke out.
