 During the fall of 1939 , he received his pilot training at the Hawthorne School of Aeronautics in Orangeburg , South Carolina . On 23 November 1940 , Farrow joined the United States Army Air Corps ' Aviation Cadet Program . In July of the following year , he obtained his aviator badge and a commission as a second lieutenant at Kelly Field in Texas . Following his completion of the B @-@ 25 Mitchell training program , he was sent to Pendleton Field in Oregon as a member of the 34th Bomb Squadron . 
