====== Felix's Backstory ====== {{ :felix.jpg?200|}} * Born January 3rd, 1924 in Midvale, Nevada. * December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the American naval base of Pearl Harbor causing Felix to decide to join the Navy. * May 1944, flew his first combat mission and was promoted to lieutenant junior grade. * Flew 65 combat missions, completed 164 carrier landings, and recorded 2020 hours of flight time. * He was shot down in an engagement with supernatural elements that left him with compromised vision, and he would never fly for the U.S. Navy again. He was rescued by a submarine floating in an emergency raft headed out to sea. As the lone survivor of that sortie he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. * Because of his valuable combat experience, Felix was reassigned to Norfolk and put in a training wing for new pilots. * With the surrender of Japan, Felix was honorably discharged in September 1945. He took some college classes, but he was never a very good student always a little haunted by the events of that last engagement. * December 1953 Felix is finally formally discharged from the Navy and he moved back home with his ailing father.