by Lee S.
My father, Paul. L. Snowberger, was hired by
Glenn L. Martin in the mid-1920s as an aero-engineer at the factory plant in
Cleveland Ohio. In those days, engineers, my father included, "followed
the work" to other airplane companies, including among several others, the
Lockheed plant in California.
Eventually my father returned to the East Coast
with the Glenn L. Martin Company again, this time in Middle River, Maryland. He
was assigned to the B-26 Marauder program, and was responsible for turret
design and systems support, obtaining a patent for the oscillating oxygen and
communications connectivity. He spent a good bit of time at Omaha's Offutt AAF
Base during World War II, while his family (and I) remained in Baltimore. (I
was also later assigned in the 1960s to Offutt as a USAF officer at SAC
Headquarters.)
Dad remained with Martin through 1949. We
then we moved to Seattle, where he worked on the Boeing SST program, and later
on the Boeing 747 cargo floor handling system. He retired from Boeing for
health reasons in the mid-1960s.
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| Dad was responsible for the Marauder's turret design.. |
