Judge, Ethel and Irene took turns working and schooling to attend college.  The sisters attended Muskingham.  Judge graduated from Miami University of Ohio in 1937 and was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.   He became an accountant at Chevrolet Division of GMC in Flint Michigan until he enlisted in the Air Corp in 1941.

He was awarded his wings and commissioned Second Lieutenant at Victoria Texas in  June 1942.  And became a First Lieutenant by January of 1943 at the Hawaiian Island headquarters.  Within a year of his arrival in the Pacific, he was promoted to Captain.  In 1945, he was promoted to Major.  He was stationed in the Hawaiian Islands, Canton Islands, Marianas, Saipan and at Okinawa, Japan.

Judge who was described as a calm-mannered, hard flying ace, brought down a total of 9 possibly ten Japanese fighters.  The first man to shoot down a fighter plane with rockets which were generally used for ground strafing, he said, "I just hated to waste those rockets.  I knew I had to jettison them before closing in for the fight, but I decided to see what they would do."  So he sent off four rockets toward a Zeke ahead of him.

The force of the blast rocked his plane out of control briefly as he blew through the smoke of the burning plane.  He would later say that bringing down the first enemy plane with rockets was his greatest thrill of the war.  On another occasion, an enemy craft had gone into a spin  to evade him.  Major Wolfe did a barrel-roll in pursuit.  While upside down, he got the plane in his sights and brought it down.

In Feb 1945, Captain Wolfe scored aerial victories when he destroyed two twin-engine Japanese bombers on a fighter strike preceding the Iwo Jima invasion.  He was with the Seventh Air Force escorting Liberators on a photographic bombing mission.  Skimming the ocean surface, Judge spotted a group of enemy bombers which had just taken off from an island airstrip.  He opened the throttle and swung under the rear of one of the bombers, shooting 50 caliber machine gun ammo and 20 millimeter cannon shells.  The enemy crashed into the sea in flames.   Then he veered toward a second bomber.  While exchanging gunfire with the tail gunner, his plane suffered a hit in the stabilizer.  He brought down that plane but was forced to make an emergency landing.  Consequently Judge was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

His greatest exploit came while acting as flight commander of the 318th fighter group who completed a mission over Okinawa, Japan on June 10, 1945.  His Thunderbolt squadron of 9 fighters was attacked by 60 enemy planes.  In 10 minute of aerial dog fighting, the squad shot down 13, four of them by Major Wolfe.  This exploit was written up in a 1967 issue of True Magazine.  And he was awarded the Silver Star at Williams Air Base, Chandler Arizona, in November of 1946.

While in the Marianas, his squadron engaged in the longest over-water flight of the war and was first to fly fighter strikes at Truk and Iwo Jima.  Some of the problems pilots had to face included short runways, bad condition of fields, heavy loads of gas with rockets, ammo and bombs, and most especially the weather.  Judge was quoted as saying, "In all my flights to Japan, there have been only two when I didn't have to worry about ever getting back to base again because of the weather."

After his Pacific tour, Judge returned to Michigan and his accountant position with General Motors.  Brothers Dean Wolfe (Navy) and Raymond Wolfe (Army) returned safely from their wartime service.  but Judge soon re-enlisted with the 304 AAF Base Unit, Langley Field Virginia in July of 1947.  At age 32, he was Squadron Commander of the 373rd Airdrome Group.

On November 24th, 1948, his F-80 jet engine failed on takeoff at Williams Air Base in Arizona.  Tragically losing his life, he left behind a grieving family at Thanksgiving 1948.

His many decorations included the Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbon with six battle stars, the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster, the Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star.  Judge's picture appeared in the 1977 Squadron/Signal publication "Aces of the Southwest Pacific.  And several articles in the Coshocton Tribune documented his life and his untimely death.

Coshocton County can point with pride to this favorite son, whose roots in Coshocton County include such pioneer families as the Wolfes, Waggoners, Salyards, Moffatt, Jones, Hunt, Wiggins and Magness.