475th's Aces

On 3 April 1944 Lieutenant Forster scored his first confirmed victories by destroying two Tony's and an Oscar over Hollandia. A fourth victory came on 14 October 1944 while escorting B-24s from Morotai, Halmahera to Balikpapan, Borneo. Shortly after he destroyed a Zeke 52, another Zeke attacked and shot up Forster's left engine. Diving above red-line speed and using dive flaps to pull out above the ocean waves, he eluded his attacker. With the left engine streaming smoke and the oil pressure at zero, he shut down the engine and feathered the prop. From that point, he flew alone more than 900 miles, zigzagging across the Celebes back to Morotai for a total mission time of eight hours and twenty minutes. He became an ace on 2 November when he destroyed an Oscar south of Ponson Island, and was credited with four more victories over the next six weeks, scoring his last, a Zeke, on Christmas Day.

In December 1945 Captain Forster returned to the U.S. Subsequent assignments included duty with the United Nations in Palestine; Commander 3526th Flying Training Squadron, Williams AFB; advisor to the Korean Air Force; Commander 21st Tactical Air Support Squadron in Vietnam.