WW II US Army Colonel Air Forces Pilot and Intelligence Officer. Born in Idalia Colorado, he graduated from Colorado University as a pharmaceutical chemist, but gave up his medical career to enter West Point. Graduating from West Point military academy in 1939, he received his flying wings from Kelly Field in 1940. In July 1942, he was stationed with an aerial group in the Caribbean where he was a B-24 Squadron Commander at the rank of Major and participated in eleven bombing missions over Italy. In early 1943, he entered the field of air intelligence, made extended trips to the European and Mediterranean Theaters, investigating combat intelligence requirements and participating in several air combat missions over Europe. Early 1944, while overseas in India as Chief of Intelligence of the 20th Bomber Command, he was promoted to full Colonel and given the assignment to plan a long range bombing mission to the Japanese homeland. In June 1944, with the 12th Air Force at the US Air Base on Okinawa, he flew as lead pilot on the historic first B-29 Super-fortresses bombing mission to Yawata, Japan in the Japanese homeland. Yawata was the site of the Imperial Iron and Steel Works, the number one steel target on the Japanese empire. In January 1945, he assumed charge of intelligence for the 21st Bomber Command in the Marianas, Islands and in August 1945, he was Chief Security Intelligence Officer on Tinian, Island for evaluation of the first atomic bomb mission to Hiroshima, Japan. Later that month Major General Curtis E. LeMay in Washington, presented to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that Colonel Garcia was responsible for the system of evaluation which would forecast an early end to the war with Japan. On August 23, 1945, in a routine takeoff from Agana field on Guam, he was killed with three other persons when their B-29 stalled and crashed at the end of the runway. His citations included the Legion of Merit for distinguished service, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Asiatic Theater Ribbon with six Battle Stars, European and American Theater Ribbons.