sentences:  During World War II he took a break from mining and served as an Army Air Corps pilot in the US and then immediately after the war in Korea and Manchuria as part of the United States Reparations Commission.22 years of his mining career was spent mining tin in Southeast Asia, especially in what is now known as Malaysia eventually becoming President of the Pacific Tin Corporation.The son of noted western author Agnes Morley Cleaveland, after his retirement from mining, Norman wrote and edited three books.