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Paul Francis Jorgensen was born 17 September 1919 on the farm of his Shackelton grandparents at Mora, Minnesota. He is the son of Joseph Walter Jorgensen and Mary Lucile Shackelton. The Jorgensen family left the farm in 1923 and settled in Chicago, Ill. Paul graduated from Steinmetz High School in 1937. He married Betty May Degen, the daughter of Howard Alexander Degen, Sr. and Margaret Mabel Ebertsch. Paul and Betty have one daughter, Barbara Jean who married John Henry Kisslan, Jr. Barbara and John have four children. In 1941, after four years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, Paul enlisted in the U.S. Army Field Artillery and in 1942 entered Aviation Cadet pilot training. After receiving his pilot wings and commission as a 2nd Lt. in March 1943, he ws assigned to P-38 fighter aircraft transition at Glendale, Calif. Later in 1943 and early 1944, he was a P-38 fighter pilot in North Africa and Italy. During the invasion of Italy at Salerno, he was in the first flight of aircraft to land on the beach. During his fifty combat missions he was credited with destroying three German ME-109 aircraft and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with ten oak leaf clusters. After World War II, as a civilian, he was a B-26 bomber pilot with the Calif. Air National Guard. In 1948 he graduated from SOuth western University of Los Angeles with a B.S. Degree in Accounting. Recalled to active duty with the AF in late 1948, Paul piloted C-54 transport aircraft in 1949 on the Berlin Airlift; and in 1952-1953, during the Korean War, he was stationed in Japan flying C-47 and C-54 aircraft. In 1979, after nine years of active duty and thirty-three years in the Reserve and Air National Guard, Paul retired from the USAF in the grade of Lt. Colonel.
Publicity
Having the newsletters sent to genealogical societies and librarys.
Have it mentioned in the Genealogical Helpaer and the newsletter fo the Maryland Genealogical Society in Baltimore, MD and the Sourther California Genealogical Society in Burbank, CA.
In addition sending copies of the newsletter to the following libraries:
Maryland Genealogical Society, Baltimore, MD
South California Genealogical Society, Burbank, CA
W. Michigan Genealogical Society, Grand Rapids, MI
Muskegon County Genealogical Society, Muskegon, MI
Mason County Genealogical Society, Ludington, MI
Chemung County Historical Society, ELmira, NY
Additions
A son, Caleb Austin Yoder, born to Gloria Jean Vance and Galen Yoder; Gloria is the granddaughter of (Harold and) Esther Shackelton
Oscar and Bernice told of their granddaughter, Karen Sue's marriage to Michael Vance Larmer; Karen is the daughter of George and Mary Shackelton.
Books that mention the Shackelton-Shackleton
History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey, compiled by James P. Snell
Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey, compiled by William C. Armstrong
The Wintermute Family History, compiled by J.P. Wintermute
Ogden and Kern Ancestors, compiled by William MacKellar Kern
Early Germans of New Jersey
