Wally Hoffman was born in Bremerton, WA and grew up west of Port Angeles, WA in the rural community of Joyce. After graduation from high school worked in the logging camps to go to Washington State University.  During his second year he entered the Aviation Cadet Training as a pilot.  He survived 35 missions over Germany as a B 17 Pilot as a member of the 8^th Air Force.  He returned home and was given an early discharge after which worked for a year in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.  He has been married 57 years to an English girl from Manchester who was a radio operator attached to the Fighter Command in the Royal Air Force during WW II.  They have two daughters.  He returned to WSU in 1946 and received a BS in Agriculture in 1948. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture in Wenatchee, Chehalis, and Auburn. Then worked for the Department of Natural Resources in charge of the Land Management of the 3 million acres of the state trust lands (school lands) in Olympia, WA.  In 1982 retired and still lives in Olympia, WA.  Was active in the Lacey Fire District Three where a Fire/Training Station has been name for him.   Recently took some creative writing courses on the Internet and has been writing his memoirs of World War II.