Commander Waldron was born on May 19, 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana, U. S. A..

Before entering the U.S. Navy in January 1943 he attended St. Aloysius High School and Loyola University of the South. He entered the Navy under the Aviation Cadet Program and received his Navy Wings and commission as an Naval Ensign in May 1945. He trained to be a Navy fighter pilot in F6F Grumman Hellcats and qualified aboard an aircraft carrier at the end of his training.

When Japan surrendered and the war's fighting ended he was transferred to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit Twenty-One (CASU-21), at Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia where he spent the remainder of his first active duty period as a ferry pilot. He was released from active duty in May 1946 and enrolled in Tulane University. In 1948 he enrolled in Southwest Photo Arts Institute and in 1950 he was graduated as a commercial photographer. He then proceeded to Colorado Springs, Colorado where he received training and worked as a photolithographic cameraman and pressman. During this period of inactive duty he continued flying fighter aircraft in the Naval Reserve.

At the start of the Korean War he volunteered for active duty and was recalled to duty in June 1951. He received training in helicopters and in December 1951 he was ordered for duty to Helicopter Utility Squadron Two (HU-2), where he was assigned to several successive aircraft carriers as an Air/Sea helicopter rescue pilot. In May 1954 he was ordered to Helicopter Training Unit One (HTU-1), Pensacola, Florida for duty as a helicopter flight instructor.

After two years of instructing neophyte helicopter pilots he volunteered for duty in Operation Deep Freeze Two and was accepted for the 1956-1957 operation. He reported to Air Development Squadron Six (VX-6) at Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, Rhode Island in June 1956 and received flight training in the R4D (C-47) Dakota aircraft and the HO4S Sikorsky helicopter. In August 1956 he departed for the Antarctic as a copilot on an R4D Dakota aircraft.

During the sixteen months he remained in the Antarctic he flew many flights to remote locations, including the South Pole Station (10,000 feet above sea level). He also flew many helicopter flights in and about Little America Five in support of the scientific community studying the Antarctic phenomena. After returning to the United States he was ordered for duty to the Operations Department of Naval Air Station, Port Lyautey, Morocco. During his two years in North Africa he flew many R4D transport flights and performed many helicopter rescue missions in the helicopter. When the Sebou River flooded on two separate occasions he flew around-the-clock helicopter missions rescuing dozens of Moroccan natives inundated by the floods.

In 1960 he was ordered to the Naval Air Development Center, NAS Johnsville, PA. and for three years he worked as Projects Officer for the Anti-Submarine Warfare Laboratory. During this assignment he flew Research & Development flights in the C-47, the P2V, the H-34 and the H-3 type aircraft, all in support of the engineering programs carried on at the Center. In 1964 he was ordered to Helicopter Combat Support Squadron One (HC-1), Naval Air Station, Ream Field, California. He was assigned as Projects Officer for the all-new Helicopter Vertical Replenishment Program. He and his assigned pilots and air crewmen accepted the first UH-46A helicopters from the Vertol Aircraft Corporation for the Navy and they deployed as a group to NAS Atsugi, Japan, where they initiated the first heavy-lift Vertical Replenishment helicopter operations in the Navy. Mr. Waldron also assumed the duties as Officer-in-Charge of the helicopter detachment in Atsugi, Japan.

Besides vertical replenishment his detachment also provided utility helicopters for ships operating in the Western Pacific during the Vietnam War. In 1967 he was selected for Commander. In 1969 he was ordered to become Aircraft Maintenance Officer of Helicopter Training Unit One (HTU-1), where he was responsible for the maintenance of approximately 150 helicopters used in flight training of new pilots. In 1969 he was ordered to the Amphibious Operational Training Unit, at Little Creek, Virginia, where he oversaw the operational training of amphibious ships in the Norfolk area. After a year he was appointed as Executive Officer of the this training unit.

On June 30, 1970 he retired from the U.S. Navy. Since that time he has trained in computers at Christopher Newport College and in 1971 he went to work for the Veterans Administration as a Veterans Benefits Counselor in Veterans Administration Hospitals at Hampton and Richmond, Virginia. He retired from Federal Civil Service in May 1987 and presently resides in Richmond, Virginia with his wife, Merle. Between them they have six grown children.