The True Story of Catch 22 by Patricia Chapman Meder

Author:Patricia Chapman Meder
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612001159
Publisher: Casemate

AFTER THE WAR

After the war, Bob became Chief of the USAF Mission to Argentina. In 1953, after a 36-year career in the USAF, he retired to his farm in Auburn, Alabama. He became a founding member of the Order of the Daedalians (a fraternal organization of military pilots) and remained extremely active with reunions of the B-25 units he once led.

He had been awarded The Silver Star in 1943:

For gallantry in action. On March 31, 1943, Colonel Knapp took off on a sea search mission leading fourteen B-25 airplanes. The weather was bad with rainsqualls and poor visibility to a point about twenty miles out to sea. The fighter escort and six of the B-25 bombers became separated in the bad weather and returned to base. Colonel Knapp gallantly continued the search with the remaining eight bombers. At 12:55 a convoy of six ships, two of them large with fighter and marine escort, was sighted. Colonel Knapp's formation was attacked by fourteen enemy fighter aircraft, and although the tail of Colonel Knapp's lead aircraft was damaged by two explosive shells and machine gun bullets, he gallantly and skillfully led the formation in destroying one enemy aircraft, damaging four, and losing the others in the clouds. Colonel Knapp then gallantly led the formation back to the convoy, climbed to forty-five hundred feet, and made the bomb run, sinking one large ship and seriously damaged another. By his gallantry and devotion to duty on this occasion, Colonel Knapp has upheld the highest traditions of the Army Air Forces.

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