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Floyd Raymond Jensen (jen7001)
Father: Elmer Marius Jensen
(jen6001)
Mother: Lyda Cecilia Nelson
b. b. February 28, 1919 in Oregon
d. March 30, 1990, buried in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley, Butte County, California .
m. March 6, 1943 at Bakersfield, California, Thelma Susette Vanderford, (7008), b. October 23, 1923 in Yuba County, California
Issue: [Thelma]
Kirk Thomas Jensen (jen8005), b. March 28, 1944
Karen Suzette Jensen (jen8006), b. March 7, 1946
Information:
June 4, 1941:
Floyd enlisted as a private
in the Army at Portland, Oregon. He is listed as single, with 4 years of high
school and employed as a gas and oil man. He was 6'1" and weighed 186 pounds.
March 6, 1943:
Miss Thelma
Susette Vanderford became the bride of Army Air Cadet Floyd R. Jensen in a
candlelight ceremony taking place Saturday evening, March 6th, in the Chapel of
Sacred Memories Methodist Church in Bakersfield. 
June 18, 1943:
Floyd graduated in the Class
of 43-F from the Air Force Advanced Flying School at Stockton Field,
California.
March 1944 to May 1945:
Floyd flew B-25s
during his Southwest Pacific Tour of Duty. His story is here.
July 1, 1944:
Floyd had been promoted to
First Lieutenant in the Army Air Force. He had completed 29 missions when he
wrote. 
August 17, 1944:
Floyd had recently been
decorated with the Air Medal for aerial flights in the Southwest Pacific Area
from March 14 to May 15, 1944. 
1945-90:
Thelma and Floyd moved to the
Vanderford Ranch west of Gridley, California where they raised rice, oats and
cattle. [Thelma]
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