SC Air Force veteran celebrates 100th birthday with look back over his 70-year career Caroline Coleburn
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A World War II veteran from Columbia is celebrating his 100th birthday.
Maynard Cusworth’s Air Force career spanned three decades, and he spent more than 40 years as a volunteer mercy pilot.
Now, Maynard suffers from advanced dementia, but his family says he’s always looked forward to turning 100.
“He started echoing that as he got to the age of 90, or late 80s, and it became kind of a broken record,” said Maynard’s son, Robert Cusworth.
His father’s aviation career began in the early 1940s, training as a bomber pilot during the end of WWII.