On April 7, Olds made his final kill when he destroyed a Bf 109 during a B-24 Liberator raid over Lüneburg. Towards the end of the war in Europe, Olds returned to the United States and was assigned to West Point to serve as an assistant football coach. Olds had many more assignments ahead including being selected for the US Air Force-Royal Air Force exchange program in 1948, commanded the No. 1 Squadron at RAF Tangmere, becoming the operations officer for the F-86 Sabre-equipped 94th Fighter Squadron at March Field in California, commanded the Air Defense Command's 71st Fighter Squadron based at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport for much of the Korean War, and, lastly, re-ceiving the assignment to the 86th Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Landstuhl Air Base, Germany in
On April 7, Olds made his final kill when he destroyed a Bf 109 during a B-24 Liberator raid over Lüneburg. Towards the end of the war in Europe, Olds returned to the United States and was assigned to West Point to serve as an assistant football coach. Olds had many more assignments ahead including being selected for the US Air Force-Royal Air Force exchange program in 1948, commanded the No. 1 Squadron at RAF Tangmere, becoming the operations officer for the F-86 Sabre-equipped 94th Fighter Squadron at March Field in California, commanded the Air Defense Command's 71st Fighter Squadron based at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport for much of the Korean War, and, lastly, re-ceiving the assignment to the 86th Fighter-Interceptor Wing at Landstuhl Air Base, Germany in