Brig. Gen. Joseph Donald Mirth
- JOINED the U.S. Air Force in 1952
- RETIRED from active duty in June 1982
- INDUCTED 2018
Brig. Gen. Joseph Donald Mirth was born on March 30, 1931, in Flint, Michigan. Raised in Chicago, Illinois, Mirth graduated Calumet High School in 1949, then attended Wilson Junior College and the University of Illinois before joining the U.S. Air Force as an Aviation Cadet in 1952. The next year, having earned his pilot wings and a second lieutenant’s commission at Greenville Air Force Base, Mississippi, he became an instructor pilot at Vance AFB, Oklahoma. Subsequently, Mirth entered Oklahoma State University, where he earned both Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in mechanical engineering in 1959.
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