| | Statesman Peter H. Dominick dead at 65|publisher=[[United Press International]]|date=March 19, 1981|accessdate=July 15, 2021}}</ref> | | Statesman Peter H. Dominick dead at 65|publisher=[[United Press International]]|date=March 19, 1981|accessdate=July 15, 2021}}</ref> |
| − | In 1942, Dominick joined the [[United States Army]] Air Corps, the forerunner of the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], as an aviation cadet]] at the outset of America's entry into [[World War II]]. He served until his release as a captain in 1945. Years after his death, his youngest son, Alexander S. Dominick found a journal of the entirety of his war-time service during the war. He flew over "the Hump" in the [[Himalayas]].<ref>Alexander S. Dominick, ''Flying the Hump: The War Journal of Peter H. Dominick (Green Bay, [[Wisconsin]]: M&B Global Solutions, Inc., 2018).</ref> | + | In 1942, Dominick joined the [[United States Army]] Air Corps, the forerunner of the [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], as an aviation cadet]] at the outset of America's entry into [[World War II]]. He served until his release as a captain in 1945. Years after his death, his youngest son, Alexander S. Dominick found a journal of the entirety of his war-time service during the war. He flew over "the Hump" in the [[Himalayas]].<ref>Alexander S. Dominick, ''Flying the Hump: The War Journal of Peter H. Domin,''k (Green Bay, [[Wisconsin]]: M&B Global Solutions, Inc., 2018).</ref> |