Herbert Hugo Menges was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 20, 1917. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve as a seaman second class at Robertson, Missouri on July 3, 1939. He was appointed as a naval aviator on July 24, 1940 and afterflight school and commissioning wa assigned to Scouting Squadron 6 on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) on November 28, 1940. |