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He was released with a separation then known as an undesirable discharge.

An elderly Air Force veteran asked a federal judge on Friday to make the military reconsider the undesirable discharge status he was given nearly 70 years earlier for being gay.

After failing on his own to overturn the Navy’s “undesirable” discharge, Mr. Dwork got help from the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, founded in 1993 to fight discrimination against gay and lesbian military personnel affected by the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Mr. Dwork was believed to be the first veteran of World War II to have an “undesirable” discharge for being gay expunged, although his case may have opened the floodgates for appeals in hundreds of similar cases.

She received an “undesirable” discharge, tantamount to a criminal record.