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.