It’s been 80 years since World War II ended, and the world is a very different place because of it. One Windsor man was there to see all of it, and on Saturday, he was honored with a vintage military salute for his 105th birthday.
“All of the decisions have enabled me to live a perfect life of 105,” Dick Sharp said about his impending birthday. ”It’s OK. I just don’t recommend it.”
One of those decisions happened in 1941, when he enlisted in the Army Air Corp, three months before Pearl Harbor was attacked. As the country geared up for war, Sharp already had his pilot’s license, so they made him a flight instructor. But in 1945, late in the war, he was sent to the Pacific island of Tinian to fly B-29 bombers, sometimes joining 300 other planes as they pounded Tokyo…