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Attwood, Stanley Gordon
Attwood, S G
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19 items. The collection concerns Stanley Gordon Attwood (1924 - 1983) and includes photographs and newspaper cuttings that mainly relate to a documentary made in 1969 about a Lancaster aircrew of 50 Squadron reunited after 25 years.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Andrea Giles and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2017-09-24
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Attwood, SG
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THE SUNDAY TIMES, 13 JULY 1969
[Photograph]
MEET ME IN ST LOUIS
Judy Garland at her best in classic Minnelli musical (1944); hits include “Trolley Song,” “Boy Next Door.” (today, B B C 1 8.15)
[photograph]
I WANT TO LIVE Hollywood indictment of the death penalty (1959) with Oscar-winning performance by Susan Hayward. (Mon. Thames, 10.30)
[Photograph]
IF I DON’T COME BACK . . . Bomber crew, reunited after 25 years, recall their wartime experiences.
(Tues., Granada, 10.30)
[photograph]
FIRST NIGHT OF THE PROMS Recording of Friday’s opening concert, Berlioz’s Requiem, conducted by Colin Davis. (Sat. B B C 1, 9.20)
A SAD ex-airman who spent his nights dressing salads in a cafe and his days playing Glenn Miller records in a Pimlico basement gave producer David Naden the idea for [italics] If I Don’t Come Back – Have A Drink On Me [/italics] (ITV Tuesday).
He set off to trace the seven-man crew of a war-time Lancaster bomber, and when all official channels failed he found them. By accident.
He reunited them on their old airfield in Lincoln, and the RAF produced another Lanc. The result: Air pictures, war talk and, of course, some old bomber-raid film. Just the stuff to set the oldies talking. But it could, I fear, fall flat with the youngsters.
Royal Air Force NEWS Week ending July 12, 1969
[Photograph]
CREW of O for Oboe in the foreground of Waddington B for Betty. Left to right: Stan Attwood, Ross Elder, Len Hogben, Claude Horn, Les Creed, Don Groscop and Irlwyn Evans. (See “They Did Come Back”.)
since then the 1969 Golden Eagle publication “Prize Poets of Spring” included her peom “Forbidden love”, which this year will appear also in the international letter and poetry magazine “Quill.”
Now six of Mrs Thomas’s poems are being considered by the BBC for inclusion in the BBC 3 programme “Poetry Now.”
Over the waves
WO Patricia Walker, stationed at the CFS, Little Rissington was attached to Portsmouth Careers Information Office during the recent “Women in the RAF” recruiting campaign, and she thinks that during that time she may have been the only member of the Service who commuted by Hovercraft.
She lived out at her home on the Isle of Wight and travelled every day between Ryde and Portsmouth by cab, and that when in flight it is like riding in a very noisy, bumpy bus.”
They did come back
TELEVISION date to remember this month is Tuesday, July 15 at 10.30 p.m. on all ITV networks. The programme is a 50 minute documentary called “If I don’t come back, have a drink on me.”
It was made by Granada at Waddington to film the only operational Lancaster bomber left in the world, B for Betty, and the first complete crew reunion of O for Oboe since they last flew together 25 years ago, having completed a full tour of 30 bombing missions.
One member of the crew, Sgt Stan Attwood, is still in the RAF. But see the documentary for yourself on July 15.
[page break]
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH JULY 13, 1969
[part of two article]
Their own op[missing letters]
[underlined] TELEVISION ROSEMARY SAY [/underlined]
[Photograph]
The last Lancaster: Granada’s “If I Don’t Come Back – Have a Drink on Me,” which is networked on Tuesday, is the story of the men who flew O for Oboe during the war. Oboe was later shot down, and the plane used in the programme is actually B for Bertie, the last surviving Lancaster at R.A.F. Waddington, Lincolnshire.
[page break]
JULY 15 THAMES TUESDAY
[Photographs and text]
10.30 IF I DON’T COME BACK – HAVE A DRINK ON ME
During the last war a bomber crew had some 5 per cent chance of surviving a tour of 30 operations intact. One crew which did was pilot Les Creed’s: Ross Elder, Don Groscop, Len Hogben, Claude Horn, Stan Attwood and Rilwyn Evans, and, of course, Flying Officer Creed, then aged 21, and skipper of Lancaster O for Oboe.
In tonight’s documentary, with a D.F.C. and three D.F.M.’s between them, they are reunited at R.A.F. Waddington, Lincolnshire, to look back 25 years.
On reflection, they considered themselves “pretty average – nobody walked out on the wing to put a fire out,” but nevertheless, the work, experiences and relationships of that short, intense period of mutual danger and mutual trust has remained with them, much of it in contrast to what they are doing today : storeman, purchasing executive, company director, works manager, washing machine mechanic, police sergeant – and in one case, R.A.F. stores [deleted] corporal. [/deleted] [inserted] Sergeant! [/inserted]
How far has their wartime comradeship and valour “gone for a Burton”?
RESEARCH ALEXIS SINDON: FILM EDITOR DAI VAUGHAN: DIRECTOR DAVID NADEN
[italics] Granada Television Production [/italics]
[unrelated text]
[Photograph]
DOCUMENTARY: If I Don’t Come Back – Have A Drink On Me – TUESDAY
[page break]
THE TIMES TUESDAY JULY 15 1969
10.30 If I Don’t Come Back – Have A Drink On Me. In tonight’s documentary, a bomber crew from the last war are reunited at R.A.F. Waddington, Lincolnshire to look back 25 years.
11.30 Performer and Composer. Tonight Antony Bopkins introduces Luis Kentner on Liszt.
11.55 Post Mortem. Michael Nelson talks to journalist and penologist Tony Parker about the experimental parole system for prisoners.
[page break]
THE LANCASTER HEROES GET TOGETHER AGAIN
The chances of an entire RAF wartime bomber crew surviving a tour of operations were 20-1 against. One crew which did survive was reunited by Tuesday’s documentary [italics] If I Don’t Come Back, Have A Drink On Me [/italics]. And at Waddington RAF Station in Lincolnshire, they met another old friend – a Lancaster bomber
TWENTY-FIVE years is a long time. As the train from London headed north towards Lincoln, Ross Elder, storeman at a cement works near Leighton Buzzard, thought : “I seem to know that fellow.”
Don Groscop, purchasing executive with a motor company, thought: “I know I’ve seen him before, but where was it?” On the tarmac at Waddington RAF Station, the two men came face to face again. And then they remembered.
Victor and Vulcan bombers tore down the runway with an ear-splitting crescendo of sound. When their heads were cleared of the noise they looked across to one of the airfield’s dispersal points and there, its four Merlin engines silent, they saw it – the Lancaster, the RAF’s most effective night bomber in World War II.
Though the Lancaster in Tuesday’s programme has never flown in anger, its letters, KM-B, are those of one of the most famous Lancasters that ever flew from Waddington on a bombing mission. Its pilot, Sq. Ldr. John Nettleton, won the Victoria Cross.
In the winter and spring of 1944 a Lancaster with the call sign O for Oboe brought Elder and Groscop closer together than either had been to another man in his young life – except the other five men in the aircraft.
While Groscop, working at his charts, provided the only light in the bomber’s darkened fuselage, Elder, in the mid-upper gun turret, scanned the sky for German night fighters.
After their tour of duty, Flying Officer Les Creed (pilot) was awarded the D.F.C. Flt. Sgt. Len Hogben (bomb-aimer) and Sgt. Groscop and Sgt. Claude Horn (wireless operator) received the D.F.M.
Twenty-five years is a long time, and now many things have changed. Bomb-aimer Hogben only gave instructions to skipper Creed when the Lancaster was making its run in to the target. Now Hogben is boss of a firm which makes tinplate containers, and Creed is his works manager.
Horn services washing machines. Flight Engineer Stan Attwood tried civilian life. For seven years he worked in hospital management in Nottingham, but got fed up. In 1954 he rejoined the RAF and went to Singapore as stores corporal.
Rear-gunner Irlwyn Evans, now a police sergeant at Aberystwyth, stood by the rear turret of the grounded Lancaster at Waddington and looked at the turret through which he pointed his four Browning 303s.
The reunion had an acute moment of frustration when, with Waddington commanding officer Group Captain Arthur Griffiths at the controls, the Lancaster took off and made several low runs across the airfield.
Creed felt he could have done the job himself. And Hogben added: “And he could, too. And what’s more, if he did we’d all go with him.”
Peter Green
[Photograph]
The wartime Les Creed, ready for a mission . . . below, Heinsberg, and what a Lancaster could do
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
Creed at the controls again before joining the crew, below: left to right, Stan Attwood, Ross Elder, Len Hogben, Claude Horn, Creed, Don Groscop and Irlwyn (Taffy) Evans
[Photograph]
[page break]
WEEK IN VIEW JULY 12 – 18
[Text and Photographs]
[Photograph]
DOCUMENTARY: 20 – 1 against. If I Don’t Come Back – Have A Drink On Me – TUESDAY
[page break]
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH JULY 20, 1969
MOON MEN’S TEARS
[underlined] TELEVISION ROSEMARY SAY [/underlined]
WHATEVER doubts one may or may not have about te ethics of the moon venture, it is essential to understand something about the technical side of the business.
I hope it has not escaped the notice of those who are as hopelessly unscientific as I am that two of the B.B.C.’s “Apollo Space” studio team, James Burke and Patrick Moore, have been allotted time off from their progress reports to answer children’s questions on how it all works.
How do the “different bits” that make up the Apollo 11 function? We were through that in no time with a model. Why is it chemically fired and not atomically? What will it push against in space? (Try [italics that [/italic] one). But best of all was “What will happen in the astronaut’s tears if they cry?” The answer is that the tears will float around the cabin. And if they cry a lot they will be swimming in tears. The seven-year-old girl who sent in the question must have sensed that Lewis Carroll was as much aware of the hazards of space travel as Jules Verne.
Both B.B.C. and I.TV. came up with some sticky emotional stuff in their moon commentating for the grown-ups. One I.TV. chap choked on “Man who is born and lived all his life on this earth . . . now . . .” Another I.TV. beauty was “The Americans are about to light a tremendous candle here this morning”. The B.B.C. countered later with “God’s in His Heaven and man is on his way there”. We also had “computers ticking like heart beats” and one of the astronauts “had already come a long way – from log cabin to space capsule”.
It might be said to have helped to put some human feeling into this terrifying affair. Heaven knows there is not much. Certainly not in John Mansfield’s brilliantly written and produced documentary, Out of This World (B.B.C.1), showing the career of Wernher von Braun, the man who designed the Saturn rockets and who is the brain behind past and future American space projects. He also designed the V-2’s that blasted savagely into London in 1944 killing or maiming nearly 10,000 people. We saw the notorious Peenemünde base, the rockets streaking across the Channel, von Braun and his team confidently surrendering to the Americans, and being quickly despatched to New Mexico to continue their research.
Now a respected and influential American citizen with some of his German colleagues still working with him, von Braun talked guttural fluency of nuclear rockets carrying men to Venus in the next 20 years.
[symbol]
[unrelated text]
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NOSTALGIA for the kind of companionship that only seems generated in war-time by a communal danger has been worked almost to death in the last 25 years.
But Granada’s documentary If I Don’t Come Back – Have a Drink On Me managed successfully to resuscitate the emotion by tracking down the members of a bomber crew and taking them back to their old base in Lincolnshire. Middle-aged, balding, the seven men started off awkwardly, a forlorn group silhouetted against a bleak sky-line, until the only surviving Lancaster bomber came zooming down over their heads. They then remembered, with a growing despair for their lost youth and the inability to hold on to the feeling that once existed between them. I’m not sure how wise it is to stir all this up for the people concerned, but the experience was moving for the viewer.
[page break]
The colour of Space
TELEVISION OSCAR TURNILL
[unrelated text]
We shall have to put aside one day our consciousness of the war and the late enemy: perhaps we have already begun to do so. What came through Granada’s exercise in nostalgia, If I Don’t Come Back – Have a Drink on Me, was that a Lancaster bomber crew of the 1940s, tracked down in middle age, have no recollection of the lust of battle. What they feel now is awe and pity at the scale of the destruction in which they had to share, and respect for one another.
David Naden, the director, was so right to interview them separately, and then inter-cut. The years between weren’t able to intrude; they still knew one another as they were then. And we could see that all equally lived in the present.
[unrelated text]
THE SUNDAY TIMES, 20 JULY 1969
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'If I don't come back' documentary newspaper cuttings
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Cutting 1 is a small photograph of a Lancaster and for of the crew with the time and day of the airing of the documentary.
Cutting 2 is an explanation of the idea of why the documentary was made and some detail about what inspired it.
Cutting 3 is the seven ex-airmen in front of a Lancaster. There is a short explanation about the documentary.
Cutting 4 is a Lancaster taking off with a brief note about the documentary.
Cutting 5 is an extract from a TV guide about the documentary.
Cutting 6 is the seven ex-airmen standing at the front of a Lancaster, with brief details when the documentary is being aired.
Cutting 7 is a television listing and brief description about the documentary.
Cutting 8 is a longer article about the reunion of the aircrew of O for Oboe at Waddington in 1969. Their post-war lives are described.
Cutting 9 is from a TV guide and has a photograph of the seven ex-airmen standing in front of a Lancaster.
Cutting 10 and 11 are reviews of the documentary.
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1969-07
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11 newspaper cuttings from eight pages of a scrapbook
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eng
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Text
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SAttwoodSG1814420v10021,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10022,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10023,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10024,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10025,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10026,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10027,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10028
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Great Britain
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1944
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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Workflow A completed
50 Squadron
aircrew
Lancaster
RAF Waddington
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Freeman, Ralph
R Freeman
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An oral history interview with Sergeant Ralph Reginald Freeman (1923 - 2019, 1523700 Royal Air Force), his log book, photographs and documents. He trained as a pilot and later flew as a flight engineer.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Susan Abbott and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-03-12
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Freeman, R
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"C" Flight, [RAF Wings Crest] No. 4 Squadron,
No. 8 I.T.W.
[Photograph]
Bayley Studios Ltd. June, 1943. Plymouth, Torquay & Newquay.
[page break]
McCrossen
R. Honey
R. Prescott
[Signature]
[Signature]
[Signature]
[Signature]
[Signature]
[Signature]
H. Morgan
R.C. Day
J. Harries
[Signature]
F. Howard
R. Bennett
H. Booth
Tom Halley
J. Fowler
D. Bushnell
D.W. Merrig
G. Gowlett
C.C. Cox, L.A.C.
D.G. McCoy
[Signature]
W. Haywood
C.G. Leftwich
H. Morgan
H. Patton
N.E. Mort
P. Hulse
W. Leech
R. Richards
A.T.Davidson Hank !!
J. Malz
C.G. Leftwich
RRE FREEMAN
2nd from left row 3
4
3
2
1
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"C" Flight No 4 Squadron No 8 Initial Training Wing
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A group of trainees arranged in four rows in front of the Trenance Hotel, Newquay.
On the reverse are the signatures of some of the trainees. A yellow post-it note states 'RRE Freeman 2nd row from left row 3'.
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Bayley Studios Ltd
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1943-06
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PFreemanRRE1905
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Great Britain
England--Newquay
England--Cornwall (County)
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Tricia Marshall
Angela Gaffney
Verity Garner
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Pending review
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1943-06
aircrew
Initial Training Wing
training
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McDermott, Colin. Album 1 Evanton Gunnery School 1943
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2016-11-03
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McDermott, C
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41 items. Photographs of aircrew and aircraft taken at RAF Evanton during 1943.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Bury and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[Photograph]
Kidd, Lay, Hughes, Medhurst, Humphrey.
Murray, Harding, Hatfield, Kirk, Heasman.
104 Course "M" Squad.
[page break]
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
REAR RANK KIDD, LAY, HUGHES, MEDHURST, HUMPHREY
FRONT RANK MURRAY, HARDING, HATFIELD, KIRK, HEASMAN.
R.A.F. EVANTON
REFERENCE G1559E
9 MAR 1943
R.A.F. OFFICIAL [crest] CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED
[underlined] IN CAPITAL LETTERS [/underlined]
M
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104 Course "M" Squad
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Ten trainee airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. On the reverse are their names and a stamp 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.
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1943-03-09
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PMcDermottC16020011, PMcDermottC16020012
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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1943-03-09
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Great Britain
Scotland--Ross and Cromarty
aircrew
RAF Evanton
training
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McDermott, Colin. Album 1 Evanton Gunnery School 1943
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2016-11-03
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McDermott, C
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41 items. Photographs of aircrew and aircraft taken at RAF Evanton during 1943.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Bury and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[Photograph]
Grigsby, Watson, Wilmott, Smith, Yarnton.
Tuff, Watson 748, Wright, Read, Whyte.
"Q" Squad – 104 Course.
[page break]
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
REAR RANK: - GRIGSBY - WATSON [underlined] 508 [/underlined] - WILMOTT - SMITH - YARNTON
FRONT RANK: - TUFF - WATSON [underlined] 748 [/underlined] - WRIGHT - READ - WHYTE.
R.A.F. [inserted] Q [/inserted] EVANTON
REFERENCE G1563E
9 MAR 1943
R.A.F. OFFICIAL [crest] COP[missing letters] RES[missing letters]
IN CAPITAL LETTERS
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104 Course "Q" Squad
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Ten trainee airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. Underneath are their names. On the reverse their names are repeated and there is a stamp 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.
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RAF Evanton
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1943-03-09
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PMcDermottC16020013, PMcDermottC16020014
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Royal Air Force
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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1943-03-09
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Great Britain
Scotland--Ross and Cromarty
air gunner
aircrew
RAF Evanton
training
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https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1059/17858/BCuthillMSFHCuthillMSFHv1.2.pdf
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Cuthill, Margaret
Margaret Scott Foster Harper Cuthill
M S F H Cuthill
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10 items. An oral history interview with Leading Aircraftswoman Margaret Cuthill (b. 1926, 2151005 Royal Air Force) (nee Logan), a written memoir, her service and release book and seven photographs. She served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force from May 1944 to October 1947 as a teleprinter operator.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Margaret Cuthill and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2018-12-13
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Cuthill, MSFH
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[blank page]
[page break]
[underlined] Oct 09 [/underlined]
[underlined] 1944/47 WAAF Life & after [/underlined]
Aged about 17yrs old I befriended a girl named Doreen at the Red Cross evening class One day she said I've volunteered for the WAAF as a Radar Operator, later on I began to feel I would like to join & train as a Nursing Orderly, but you needed to be 18yrs old & I was 17yrs & 9mths – I couldn't wait. I asked my parents if they would allow me to volunteer – they didn't mind.
[page break]
[underlined] 2. [/underlined]
So I went ahead and at the recruiting office in George St Edinburgh I was [deleted] recruited [/deleted] enrolled as a Teleprinter Operator & was off to Wilmslow training camp for 4wks on 24th May 1944.
There we were kitted out with all our uniforms, taught Service discipline, & about all ranks in the RAF, respecting your seniors, saluting officers at all times.
Our drilling & PE came rather tough for us not being use to all that exercise, but gradually
[page break]
[underlined] 3. [/underlined]
became accustomed to it. (we had to).
I soon settled down to life in a Nissen Hut. After 4wks I learned to mix in with about a dozen girls from all walks of life & many parts of the UK. I felt a little home-sick at odd times but I was accustomed to living away from home.
We were not allowed out of camp for 4wks. We were taken out on two occasions as a group & marched into Wilmslow town – to the YMCA.
[page break]
[underlined] 4 [/underlined]
Our [deleted] were [/deleted] pay parade every fortnight & you had to be well turned out – because the beady eyes of the Pay Officer [inserted] women got £3 [/inserted] Some girls went wild not having been [deleted] with [/deleted] in men's company for wks. There were two girls who broke out of camp – the disciplin [sic] was peeling potatoes & washing & cleaning ablutions (toilets) for 2 days.
After finishing Elementary Training at Wilmslow, I was posted to RAF Cranwell on a Signals Course as a Teleprinter Operator I loved the life there for 10wks. June/Jul/Aug. A very good summer
[page break]
[underlined] 5. [/underlined]
I was billetted in a married quarters house 3 girls to 1 room – not alot [sic] of space. The Sgt in charge of our house was the WAAF [deleted] Band leader [/deleted] Drum Major [deleted] on the drums [/deleted]. She was a superb person, elegant – suited her position – fair hair & tall & attractive
Our house was on the edge of the airfield – there were light aircraft trainers – we use to sit in the garden watching them. It was all very new – not having seen the flying before. (me)
[page break]
[underlined] 6 [/underlined]
The Teleprinter Operators marched to [inserted] (over TANOY) [sic] [/inserted] music [inserted] to work [/inserted] & typed to music, there [inserted] fore [/inserted] becoming touch typists The camp was not far from Sleaford – a small village/town where we would walk to the shops [inserted] and railway station [/inserted] There was plenty of entertainment on camp. On Sat evenings there was always a dance held in the Appretices [sic] Gym Hall with their own Band. Their signature tune was "You Take The 'A' Train". I loved it, – I had an Apprentice friend, but
[page break]
[underlined] 7 [/underlined]
I can't remember his name. He gave me a cap badge – it was the Apprentice Wheel – which I attached to my handbag – but that was lost. He was a very nice young fellow, several months younger than me at just 18yrs old.
Our T/Course finished mid Aug & we then had an end of Course parade in front of Cranwell College where there was a vast parade ground. Our
[page break]
8
Air Commandant of the WAAF "Lady Walsh" took the Salute while the various Apprentices Bands played and others.
Cranwell was a happy time for me in the WAAF.
From Cranwell I was posted to:- 14 MU Carlisle (Maintenance Unit). We were given 7 days leave from end of Course – so I travelled from Edinburgh to Carlisle
[page break]
[underlined] 9. [/underlined]
My train journey turned out to be a bit of a disaster. The train was rather long & mostly full of service personell [sic] – so when we arrived at Carlisle Station – I was all set to get off but being in one of the two end carriages we were not by a platform & the train pulled away I was devastated all but tears, but there were plenty of comforters – male & female around – so my journey continued to [deleted] Pre [/deleted] York.
[page break]
[underlined] 10 [/underlined]
On my return to Carlisle there are always Military Police by the gate – so I had to explain to them in order to use the transport – & [inserted] on [/inserted] arrival face the Station Warrant Officer – who starts bellowing at you about alot "bull" not a very good welcome I learned later that his nickname was "SPAM"
The Signals Section was large & accommodated many teleprinters – cable & post office machines. So we served many small units around [inserted] SE [/inserted] & Carlisle Post Office
[page break]
11.
We had civilian supervisors that is where I earned my LACW. (Leading Aircraft Woman.)
We lived in Nissen Huts about 14-16 girls. Our heating was a large coke stove in the middle of the Hut. Our beds wrought iron unsprung & 3 horse hair biscuits like large flat cushions [inserted] 2 [/inserted] white coarse sheets & 3 very rough grey blankets. 1 bolster pillow looking more like a draught excluder.
[page break]
[underlined] 12 [/underlined]
The ablutions were about – 50yds away – Baths were limited in as much as they wer [sic] always occupied [underlined] or [/underlined] there [deleted] was [/deleted] were no plugs.
The NAAFI was quite good –
We had a number of W/Indian lads there – they usually worked in the workshops – sometimes on your way into the NAAFI in the winter evenings you got [inserted] a [/inserted] scare from a few of them hanging around the entrance – black faces & white eyes piering [sic] at you.
[page break]
13
There I played netball & got my little finger (pinky) of my right hand bent.
I joined the EVT Classes Education & Vocation Training I made a leather writing case – with thonging all around the edge & a zip. My friend Mary and I use to go out to Carlisle quite a lot – to Cinema & also there was marvellous new NAAFI Club – lots of entertainment & lots boys aircrew – was the attraction. I became friendly with a fellow called Peter – he was posted into 14 MU with
[page break]
[underlined] 14 [/underlined]
many others aircrew – [deleted] he was [/deleted] they were made redundant at the end of their course – he was a navigator. I was friendly with him for a while and then he was posted away to Stafford. He came up to Edinburgh for a long weekend & met my parents, John & Renee in So Queensferry.
He had mentioned about me going over to Longtown not far from Carlisle to meet his mother however it just happened that we met by accident in Carlisle but I got the feeling I was not welcome –
[page break]
[underlined] 15. [/underlined]
There were a group of airmen & WAAF who always gathered round a table in the NAAFI – including Peter – also there was an Airman very much senior to [inserted] all of [/inserted] us & distinguished so there were lots of discussions going on. However many years later in Cirencester with Anne, Linda & a bump, I saw this man whom we named the Professor – I felt annoyed with myself for not making myself present with my family.
"that is me" –
[page break]
[underlined] 16 [/underlined]
At Carlisle we had a number of Jamacians [sic] on Camp – they all seem to fit in well & off [sic] course the girls loved to jitter bug with them (at least some of the girls).
Sometimes they wer [sic] a bit scary in the dark on our way to the NAAFI.
Our Signals Section was supervised by civilians. One of the supervisors invited Mary & me to her home in Carlisle where she lived with her mother very comfortably. She invited us to have a bath & meal & then took
[page break]
[underlined] 15 [/underlined][sic]
us to the cinema – we saw "Song of Bernadette (Jennifer Jones) I loved watching her (mainly about life in a Convent). We both thoroughly enjoyed our Sups generosity.
On 'D' Day 45' some of us WAAF stood or sat on one of those long trailer's called a Queen Mary. (a bit like one of our long car trailers we have today 2000) parading through Carlisle. (not very enjoyable).
In camp we were given a special meal served by officers
[page break]
[underlined] 16 [/underlined][sic]
& all the boys were given a cigar. Next to our camp was a small airfield 15 EFTS Kingston. They trained on "tiger moths". The Pub in Kingston was the first time I had a drink with the girls – a shandy which I disliked.
During my time in the WAAF I never went out drinking [inserted] or [/inserted] even after.
I 1946 I was posted to 90 Group Egginton Hall Derbyshire – a large country house – with a river
[page break]
[underlined] 17 [/underlined]
running through the estate. The story went that there was a ghost "A White Lady". I never saw her. – but felt nervous at times when we would have to walk by that area where she was suppose [sic] to be on our way to evening / or night shift.
Not many personnel on the station. Our Sigs Office was what would have been a servants bedroom – level with the courtyard.
There were a small number of Italian prisoners there wandering around sweeping up etc Sometimes I would push open
[page break]
[underlined] 18. [/underlined]
my [inserted] (sash) [/inserted] window level with the ground & have a chat with them.
My frind [sic] Joan was Telephonist there She liked classical music. Sometimes [inserted] we [/inserted] would [inserted] go [/inserted] into the Reading Room where you could play records. Joan liked 'Corgi [sic] & Bess' but next time we found it broken. Our nearest town was Derby for entertainment & Market Drayton was walking distance
In camp some of the girls & RAF would go moonlight bathing in the river.
I played table tennis there.
[page break]
[underlined] 19 [/underlined]
I was there for 6 months While there for a few months I was made an Acting Corporal on temp basis while they awaited a permanent one. I wasn't exactly happy – felt to [sic] conscious. However it was only a few mths. from there I was posted to 16 MU Stafford & Handforth near to Wilmslow Where I trained for the WAAF. It was a very scattered station
We lived in groups of wooden huts – isolated from our place of work
[page break]
[underlined] 20 [/underlined]
This was 1946/47 – the very bad winter where everything froze. We use to fill a pan with ice to heat [inserted] it [/inserted] up for my hot water bottle – which four of us would share the [indecipherable word] warm water to wash in a.m.
Each day a truck called a 15 tonner with seats & cover would collect us for work 800 hrs.
The ablutions were about 200yds up a slope from our huts. They were all frozen & baths
[page break]
[underlined] 21 [/underlined]
As you can imagine desperation for baths etc
Whilst living there Mary & I went to Bell [sic] Vue stadium to watch the Scramble dirt track racing. It was at this camp I had my purse stolen from my bedside locker. It upset me, mainly because the purse was a gift from an Uncle of mine & was suede in the shape of an old style lum hat. I became frindly [sic] with a Cpl there for a short time – He wanted to be serious & said we could make a go of it, but
[page break]
[underlined] 22 [/underlined]
I said no, I'm still very young & finished He was much older than me by about 8yrs. He came from Mersey. I was demobed [sic] from there Oct 1947.
Our Signals Officer – gave me a very nice report.
After WAAF life – I lived at home for a short time while I worked at Romains [sic] & Patersons in Princess St, Edinburgh for some months with their firm in Boston doing the [deleted] Ex [/deleted] Export work.
[page break]
[underlined] 23 [/underlined]
Still trying to find a job as a Teleprinter Operator. Then I found a job as a Dictaphone Opr at Bruce Peebles engineering firm, for a short time & then a job as a Teleprinter Opr MOD 'Redbrae' Prestwick. All these jobs while short term, I quite liked them – I didn't ever feel settled but I made friends, & from there I met Dad in Edinburgh & the rest is history.
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1944/47 WAAF Life and After
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Margaret Cuthill's account of her time in the WAAF. At the age of 17 she volunteered for the WAAF and was enrolled as a teleprinter operator. She was sent to Wilmslow for training. After four weeks of drill and physical exercise she was posted to Cranwell on a signals course. Work was interesting and there was plenty of social life. After training she was sent to a maintenance unit at Carlisle.
After the war she was posted to Eggington Hall in Derbyshire, then Handforth. She returned to Edinburgh and worked for civilian firms before becoming a teleprinter operator at Prestwick.
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Margaret Cuthill
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2009-10
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28 handwritten pages
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eng
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Text. Memoir
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BCuthillMSFHCuthillMSFHv1
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
Jamaica
England--Carlisle
England--Cirencester
England--Derbyshire
England--Handforth
England--Lincolnshire
England--Longtown (Cumbria)
England--Stafford
England--Wilmslow
England--York
Scotland--Edinburgh
Scotland--Prestwick
England--Cheshire
England--Cumberland
England--Gloucestershire
England--Staffordshire
England--Yorkshire
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Angela Gaffney
African heritage
aircrew
entertainment
ground personnel
military living conditions
navigator
Navy, Army and Air Force Institute
Nissen hut
physical training
RAF Cranwell
sanitation
sport
Tiger Moth
training
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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McDermott, Colin
C McDermott
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2016-11-03
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McDermott, C
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87 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Colin McDermott (1119618 Royal Air Force). He served as an air gunnery instructor and flew operations as an air gunner with 98 Squadron. Contains his log book, papers and photographs and includes issues of 'Evidence in Camera'. <br /><br />The collection also contains albums of photographs from his training at <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1696">Evanton</a> in 1943, taken during his service in <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1699">Denmark </a>and some <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/1698">duplicate </a>photographs.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Bury and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[photograph]
M
N
O
[page break]
[signature]
George Malle
[signature]
[signature]
Campus
A Voiuéges
C Levalie
Lon Peregrin
[signature]
[signature]
[signature]
R Huut
J Fielding
D Godyear
L Handson
P Green
[signature]
P R Carter
H Dalton
M.N.O
James H. Clifford
[signature]
D. Chaar.
[ink stamp]
G.1727.E
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35 Trainee Airmen
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35 airmen arranged in three rows in front of a hut. The front row of 12 airmen are Free French airmen. On the front is 'M.N.O.' and on the reverse signatures of some of the men and a stamp with 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved' and 'G.1727.E'. Signatures on the reverse include: George Malle, Lon Peregrin, J Fielding, D. Godyear, L. Handson, P. Green, R. Huut, James H. Clifford, L. Hands, H. Dalton, D. Chaar.
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RAF Evanton
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PMcDermottC16010003, PMcDermottC16010004
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Royal Air Force
Free French Air Force
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1943-12-11
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IBCC Digital Archive
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
Jayne L Bailey
Steve Baldwin
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1943-12-11
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Great Britain
Scotland--Ross and Cromarty
aircrew
RAF Evanton
training
-
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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SMathersRW55201v1
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2017-07-17
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Major McGuire, Ted Wright and myself knocking back "highballs" in the Sky Room of the Hilton Hotel at Long Beach [underlined] 29th July 1946. [/underlined]
[indecipherable signature]
[Photograph]
[page break]
[underlined] NEW YORK ADDRESSES [/underlined]
MISS MARY BERNA
541 EAST 72nd STREET
PHONE:- R.H [indecipherable word] 4 – 0467.
MISS PAT GOODWIN
375 RIVER SIDE DRIVE
PHONE:- ACADEMY 2 - 2657
MISS HELEN MARCHESE
72 RIVER SIDE DRIVE
MISS MADELON BERNS
146 WAVERLY PLACE
GREENWICH VILLAGE
PHONE:- CHELSEA 2 - 6475
[map of NEW YORK SUBWAYS]
The entertainment program at Jones Beach includes water shows and fireworks displays at the huge marine stadium at Zachs Bay at reasonable prices. Also pool shows and water polo games which may be viewed without cost from the spectators’ balcony surrounding the pool in the West Bathhouse.
There is also free outdoor dancing, every night except Sundays at the Music Shell adjacent to the boardwalk near the Central Mall. There are always many things to do and see at Jones Beach.
[Photograph]
ARCHERY
POOL SHOWS FEATURE THE MAGIC WATER BALLET
[Photograph]
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Airmen in New York
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Photograph 1 is three airmen seated at a table. It is captioned 'Major Mcguire, Ted Wright and myself knocking back 'highballs' in the Sky Room of the Hilton Hotel at Long Beach 29th July 1946' and signed [undecipherable].
Item 1 is a map of New York subway system with handwritten addresses of four women.
Item 2 is a cutting with text and photographs relating to entertainments at Jones Beach.
Date
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1946-07
Format
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One b/w photograph, one map and one cutting on album page
Language
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eng
Type
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Photograph
Map
Text
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SMathersRW55201v10019
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United States
New York (State)
New York (State)--New York
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1946-07
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Angela Gaffney
35 Squadron
aircrew
entertainment
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
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Cluett, Albert Victor
Albert Victor Cluett
A V Cluett
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World War (1939-1945)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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68 items. The collection concerns Leading Aircraftman Albert Victor Cluett (1209046, Royal Air Force). After training in 1941/42 as an armourer, he was posted to 50 Squadron at RAF Swinderby and then RAF Skellingthorpe. The collections consists his official Royal Air Force documents, armourer training notebooks, photographs of colleagues, aircraft and locations as well as propaganda items, books in German and Dutch and items of memorabilia.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Albert Victor Cluett's daughter Pat Brown and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2015-05-15
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Cluett, AV
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[underlined] INTERNAL RETURN AND RECEIPT VOUCHER (AIRMEN) [/underlined]
[underlined] Part II. [/underlined] R.V. NO. Sub-Form 675.
PERIOD OF A/C. 46-4 7
R.A.F. [underlined] RAUCEBY [/underlined]
[Table of Articles of clothing and Equipment Returned On Discharge]
SIGNATURE OF STOREKEEPER [signature]
[signature] S/LDR.
EQUIPMENT OFFICER.
Certified that I have handed into Store all kit and equipment in my possession at this hospital as detailed above with the exception of items which I am permitted to retain.
Signature of Patient A.V Cluett.
[page break]
[underlined] ROYAL AIR FORCE. [/underlined] R.A.F. Form 1383
[underlined] DEFICIENCIES OF KIT. [/underlined]
Number 1209046 Rank AC
Name CLUETT
Trade
Certified that the Kit of the above-named airman is deficient of the items detailed overleaf. The deficiencies arose owing to, or at,
Kitting on enlistment. (IV. No .......... refers.)
Promotion
Posting to
Remustering
Increase in scale authorised by
P.O.R. No.............. refers. (P.O.R. is not required for deficiencies on kitting on enlistment).
Date of Issue and Unit Stamp.
Signature
Senior Equipment Officer.
[underlined] This Form must be taken care of and surrendered by the airman named hereon when any deficient item is issued to him. The airman will be charged for any deficiencies discovered in his kit if he fails to produce this form unless there are sufficient grounds for write-off against the public. [/underlined]
(*8050–5657) Wt. 16539-728 930M. 6/41 T.S. 700
[page break]
[underlined] DEFICIENT ITEMS. [/underlined] (All entries are to be made in ink).
Section Reference No ITEM Quantity Issued on IV. No.
[deleted] Shirts 1 [/deleted]
[deleted] Collars 2 [/deleted]
[deleted] Boots Rubber 1 [/deleted]
[deleted] Shorts gym 2 [/deleted]
[deleted] Vests gym 2 [/deleted]
[deleted] Vests ea 1 [/deleted]
[underlined] Unused lines are to be struck through by the Issuing Officer. [/underlined]
[page break]
Certified that the deficiencies and other claims known are recorded in the Accounting Section as chargeable to 1209046 LAC CLUETT
Date 13/5/46 [signature] F/O
Accountant Officer.
[page break]
CERTIFIED that the deficiencies and other claims known are recorded in Accounting Section as chargeable to:- 1209046 LAC CLUETT
7.11. 1945 [signature] O/C
for ACCOUNTANT OFFICER.
[inserted] 6TLO ? [/inserted]
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Title
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Albert Cluett's return and receipt voucher and other documentation
RAF sub form 675; RAF Form 1383
Description
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Lists articles of clothing and equipment returned on discharge, deficiencies of kit form and follow up signatures and charging details.
Creator
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force
J R Black
Date
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1946-05-13
1945-11-07
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One page printed form filled in; two-sided printed form filled in and two tear off slips with signatures.
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eng
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Text. Service material
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MCluettAV120946-150515-27
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Lincolnshire
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1946-05
1945-11
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Angela Gaffney
RAF hospital Rauceby
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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SMathersRW55201v1
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2017-07-17
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ANDREWS FIELD NEWS
PUBLISHED BY AND FOR THE PERSONNEL OF ANDREWS FIELD
[inserted] 8 AUG - 16 AUG. [/inserted]
Volume 2 WASHINGTON, D.C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1946 Number 20
35th RAF Sqdn. Leaves Andrews Field Today
[inserted][underlined] Washington Addresses [/underlined]
Nancy Johnson
1910 'K' ST. N.W.
Room 212.
Phone Extension 2010.
Elizabeth Sinton
Joy De - Smiths
ALL WITH BRITISH ARMY H.Q.
(A.T.S.).
"Mike" Black
PHONE COLUMBIA 9806. [/inserted]
Gen. Spaatz Welcomes RAF
[photograph]
At the microphone welcoming the RAF to Andrews Field is Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, Chief of Staff of the Army Air Forces. In back of him, reading from left to right, are Lord Inverchapel, British Ambassador; Col. Curtis D. Sluman, Base Commander, and Maj. Gen. O.P Weyland, Assistant Chief of Air Staff Plans.
[photograph]
Group Captain R.C.M. Collard is pictured above shaking hands with Col. Curtis D. Sluman, Base Commander, at ceremonies welcoming the RAF to Andrews Field. To the left of him is Lord Inverchapel, British Ambassador; to his right are Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, Chief of Staff of the Army Air Forces, and Col. A.L. Berry, Deputy Base Commander.
[photograph]
In picture above, men of the RAF's famous 35th Squadron are shown lined up in front of a group of heavy Lancaster bombers during Andrews Field reception for the Royal Air Force.
The RAF's famous 35th Squadron zoomed northward today on the last lap of its "goodwill tour" of U.S. air bases as guests of the Army Air Corps after spending one week at Andrews Field.
The noted British fliers of World War II flew 12 Lancaster bombers from San Antonio, Tex., to Andrews Field on August 8. The bombers are still wearing the battle paint that distinguished them in the night raids over Germany.
The British ambassador, Hon. Lord Inverchapel; the AAF's Chief of Staff, Gen. Carl A. Spaatz; the commanding officer of Andrews Field, Col. C.D. Sluman, and many other dignitaries were on hand to greet the fliers.
Lord Inverchapel welcomed No. 35 Squadron to the Washington area, and stated that while they were in this vicinity he thought he should retire, allowing them to serve as ambassadors. He also invited all the members of No. 35 Squadron to a party at the Embassy on Friday night.
In a speech of welcome, General Spaatz recalled the close cooperation that had existed between the RAF and the AAF. He said that it was imperative that this relationship should continue to exist between the two air forces.
While at Andrews Field the 209 English airmen, all veterans of Britain's much decorated Pathfinder Force, were entertained by both military officials and civilians. The entertainment ranged from downing brews at the Pte Club with GI's to drinking tea on the lawn of the British Embassy in response to Lord Inverchapel's invitation.
On Saturday morning, August 10, the British aircraft gave a demonstration flight over Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, taking off from Andrews Field at 0915. Thirty newsmen went on this flight. From 1300 to 1500 Saturday afternoon the public was invited to an open house here. Royal Air Force crews stood by their Lancasters and answered questions concerning their equipment. During the late afternoon and evening Andrews Field held a gala beach party at Chesapeake Beach for all enlisted visiting RAF personnel and for Andrews Field enlisted and civilian personnel. Swimming, a picnic supper, and dancing were the main features of the day. On Saturday night, a buffet dinner and dance were held at the Officers' Club for all RAF and Andrews Field officers.
Forty Air Attaches visited the Base Sunday morning at the invitation of Headquarters AAF. British service women and other members of the British Colony in Washington were also guests here Sunday afternoon. In the evening the RAF personnel attended the AAF band concert given on the Capitol steps.
During the course of their stay in Washington our English guests also went on sight-seeing tours as well as visiting Bolling Field and attending dinner parties and other social functions.
The itinerary of No. 35 Squadron since it arrived at Mitchell Field July 17 from Graveley, Huntingdon, England, via Azores and Newfoundland, has been St. Louis, Denver, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Tex., and Andrews Field. The squadron is now headed for Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, Mass., where it will remain for four days before completing the cycle back to Mitchell Field. From there they will return to England, where most of the men will await their well-earned discharges.
U.S., Britain Must Retain Air Superiority, Says English Ace
Urges Adequate Funds For Aviation Research
[photograph]
ALLAN J. CRAIG
Regardless of current economic conditions, United States and Great Britain must appropriate adequate funds for research and development of modern military aviation if world peace is to be maintained.
This conviction was expressed yesterday by Wing Comdr. Allan J. Craig, 23-year-old British war hero and the youngest officer of his rank in the Royal Air Force, corresponding to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. army.
Here on "Operation Goodwill" at the invitation of the Army Air Forces, Comdr. Craig is head of the famed Thirty-Fifth Squadron, the Lancaster bomber outfit which saluted President Truman Saturday in a formation over the White House, and which is being entertained at Andrews Field. With a maturity belying his years, the youthful veteran of 73 European sorties pleaded earnestly for public awareness of the "tremendous changes" taking place in aviation. "The people must be made to understand that present-day aircraft become obsolete practically as soon as they are manufactured. We must not practice false economy with inferior air power. With weak air power we will have inferior peace power," he said.
Craig holds the Distinguished Service Order, the Distinguished Flying Cross, a Brazilian decoration and numerous campaign stars. The Lancaster crews will leave Washington Wednesday for Boston and New York, returning to England August 22. They will be feted tonight by Gen. Carl Spaatz and other top A.A.F. generals.
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Andrews Field News
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First item is an account of the the visit by 35 Squadron at Andrews Field. Second item is 'U.S., Britain must retain air superiority, Says English Ace'. Handwritten notes of Washington addresses.
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1946-08
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Two newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes on an album page
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eng
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Photograph
Identifier
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SMathersRW55201v10041
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
United States Army Air Force
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United States
Washington (D.C.)
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1946-08
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Angela Gaffney
35 Squadron
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
Lancaster
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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SMathersRW55201v1
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2017-07-17
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[missing letters] D UNION, SPRINGFIELD, MASS., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1946
Anne Clough's Heart Was Filled With Pride As British Bombers Roared Into Westover
[Photograph]
[italics] Springfield Union Photo [/italics]
STROLLING AND CHATTING – Attractive Anne Clough, who before her marriage to an American served with the RAF's WAAF, chats with Leading Aircraftsman Jack Rollitt, ground crewman on one of the Lancasters of Squadron 35. Mrs. Clough was with the unit back in 1940, when it had twin-engined Wellingtons.
Springfield Resident, Now Employed at Field, Was WAAF During War, Serving With Squadron 35
By Francis Merrigan
"Well, I had a little cry and I was very proud of them." This was the reaction of petit, blonde and lovely Mrs. Anne Clough on Wednesday as she stood outside of Hangar 5 at Westover Field and watched 12 RAF Lancaster bombers roar over the base in tight battle formation before landing to bring "Operation Goodwill" to Western Massachusetts.
Served With Squadron 35
Understandable indeed, were the tears shed by Mrs. Clough as she watched these emissaries of good will, for not only was she a WAAF sergeant attached to the RAF during the war, but "back in 1940" she served with Squadron 35, the very outfit whose planes are at Westover Field today.
She's an American now . . . has been in this country for nearly two years and loves it . . . and because the desire to be near "aircraft" persists, she recently took a job with American Overseas Airlines at Westover and was assigned to maintenance control.
"Not only do I like planes, but my husband's going to school, so it's rather necessary that I work," she said, flashing an engaging smile.
Met in Lincolnshire
She met her husband, Gerald C. Clough, Jr., former fighter pilot with the RCAF and AAF, when they were both stationed at Lincolnshire. The fact that he was an AAF captain – had transferred to the air force of his own country in 1942 – and she was a WAAF sergeant didn't deter the course of romance, and so they were married. Mrs. Clough left her desk in hangar 5 yesterday afternoon to be photographed down at the flight line. "I really don't think that I'll know anyone in Squadron 35,"she said, during the drive to the parking stands, "because it was so long ago that I was with them. And besides, they had Wellington bombers then . . . they're two-engine airplanes, you know."
She Liked Them All
She said her duties consisted of overseeing the officers' mess, and "everything in general."
How many squadrons had she served with?
She smiled . . . "Oh several . . . let's see, Squadron 45, 78, 37 . . . all of those were heavy bombers . . . and I served with the Spitfires too."
Which did she like best?
"Oh, I don't know, I guess I liked them all . . . there isn't any difference." The conversation turned again to the arrival of the Lancasters and she mentioned, a bit wistfully it seemed, that it was something she hadn't seen for a long, long time.
Used To Be All Black
"I was thrilled, too, when they all came to attention out in front of the planes and the band played 'God Save the King.' " she said . . . "My, but I was proud of them."
"This is the first time I've seen them white," she said as the car came to a stop before a maintenance shed . . . "When I served in the WAAF they were painted all black." The under portion of the craft is black, and the upper parts glisten white under their coat of white paint. A lanky blond chap in an RAF dress uniform was the only squadron member in the area and he introduced himself as LAC Jack Rollitt of Yorkshire . . . explaining that LAC meant "leading aircraftsman" and compared somewhat to our [indecipherable word] "except that we have a bit more responsibility than your [indecipherable word]."
Only Five So Far
"How many pairs of nylons are you bringing back?" asked Mrs. Clough after introductions had been made all around.
"Only five so far." answered the friendly Yorkshireman, "But I want to get some more before we go."
"Only five!" echoed the little blond . . . "Do you know that my mother had to pay one pound ten on two pairs of nylons that I sent her? And they cost me only about £1.4s a pair."
Rollitt was asked what disposition he had planned for the nylons.
"Oh, I'll dish them out," he said . . . "One here and one there . . . treat them all alike is what I say."
Anne, who carried a large pocket-book to which her husband's AAF wings were affixed, chatted with the aircraftsman about this and that . . . she informed him that she had no WAAF uniform because she received her discharge before the war ended . . . and commented on the squadron crest painted on the nose . . . Rollitt said he guessed it was the forepart of Pegasus, the flying horse.
Good Living There
The talk veered around to pounds and dollars again and Mrs. Clough mentioned she had written to her mother, commenting on the 26 pounds (about 30 dollars) monthly rent she pays.
"That is a bit stiff, isn't it?" asked Rollitt. "I could live very nicely in England on that."
On 24 or 22 dollars a week?
"Five pounds a week? I'll say you could," was Rollitt's emphatic answer.
It was time for Mrs. Clough to return to her desk, as Rollitt headed back to the shed.
"I'll be out to see the squadron tomorrow," Mrs. Clough called back.
Open House Today
She'll be joined by hundreds of Western Massachusetts residents, in all probability, for it's "open house" at the base and the big Lancasters will be open for inspection. Members of the crews will take spectators through, showing them the mammoth bombers which teamed up with the AAF to give Germany and other occupied areas such an aerial pasting.
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Anne Clough's Heart was filled with pride as British Bombers roared into Westover
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Details on Anne Clough service in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during the War.
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1946-08-17
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eng
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SMathersRW55201v10046
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Civilian
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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United States
Massachusetts
Massachusetts--West Springfield
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1946-08-17
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IBCC Digital Archive
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One newspaper cutting on a scrapbook page
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Angela Gaffney
35 Squadron
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
ground personnel
Lancaster
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force
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Madgett, Hedley Robert
H R Madgett
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An account of the resource
250 items. The collection concerns Pilot Officer Hedley Madgett DFM (1922 - 1943, 147519, 1330340 Royal Air Force), a pilot with 61 Squadron. He was killed 18 August 1943 on the last operation of his tour from RAF Syerston to Peenemünde. The collection consists of letters, postcards and telegrams to his parents while he was training in the United Kingdom and Canada. In addition the collection contains memorabilia, documents from the Air Training Corps, artwork, a railway map, diaries, medals as well as his logbook, photographs of people, places and aircraft. Also contains letters of condolence to parents and a sub collection containing a photograph album with 44 items of his time training in Canada'.<br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Joan Madgett and Carol Gibson, and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br /><span>Additional information on Hedley Madgett is available via the </span><a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/114690/" title="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/madgett-hr/ ">IBCC Losses Database</a><span>.</span>
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-03-17
2019-06-14
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Madgett, H
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KENTISH TIMES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1943.
VICTORY WINGS WEEK: £430,501.
CHISLEHURST-SIDCUP TRIUMPH.
FIGHTING FUND £2,831.
AIR MINISTER’S PLAQUE PRESENTED:
Certificates of Honour for Savings Groups.
Business in connection with Chislehurst-Sidcup’s successful Wings for Victory Week was brought to a close at a final meeting of the committee on Tuesday evening, when Group Captain Gordon, C.B.E., M.C., D.F.C., on behalf of the Secretary of State for Air, presented the committee with a plaque in recognition of the district’s successful achievement in the Wings for Victory campaign.
It was announced that the final figure for the Week was £430,501. The Fighting Fund reached a total of £2,930 15s. 2d., and it was agreed to divide £2,700 between the benevolent funds of the three Fighting Services and the Merchant Navy.
The president, Mr. H.N. Beecher Bryant, J.P., presided, supported by the vice-president, Admiral A.F. Beal, the hon. Organising secretary, Mr. P.M. Franks, and Mr. T. Harrison (assistant commissioner).
In the absence of the hon. treasurer, Mr. J. Gaffney presented his report showing that the final total for the week amounted to £430,501. Comparative figures for previous weeks were also submitted, showing that the War Weapons Week (1941) total amounted to £321,971 and Warship Week (1942) £370,346. He drew attention to the steady increase in each of the Weeks, and particularly to the amounts subscribed by small investors, which in the Wings for Victory Week showed an increase of 36 per cent. more than the Warship Week, and 52 per cent. more than the War Weapons Week.
These increases reflected the fact that the local Savings organisation had been developed upon sound lines, and that the hard steady work of group secretaries and other voluntary workers was in no small way responsible for the success of the whole Savings campaigns.
THE FIGHTING FUND.
In regard to the Fighting Fund, a statement was submitted showing that the total receipts from all the districts amounted to £2,930 15s. 2d. which, after meeting expenses amounting to £99 5s. 6d., left a balance in hand of £2,831 9s. 8d. Every part of the district had achieved most successful results in their efforts for the Fighting Fund, and particular mention was made of the wonderful success achieved by the smaller parts of the area, namely St. Paul’s Cray and North Cray, who raised £468 8s. 5d. and £234 5s. 2d. respectively.
Details of the total raised were given as follow: National War Bonds, £[indecipherable numbers],415; Defence Bonds, £25,395: certificates, £88,568; Post Office deposits, £23,235; stamps on bombs, £57: Fighting Fund, £2,831.
Details of the Fighting Fund account were: Receipts, Chislehurst District Committee, £637 8s. 8d.; North Cray District Committee, £234 5s. 2d.; Mottingham District Committee, £380 12s. 6d.; St. Paul’s Cray District Committee, £468 8s. 5d.; Sidcup North District Committee, £269 5s. 11d.; Sidcup South District Committee, £936 16s. 6d.; Anon., £2; K. Wright £2; total, £2930 15s. 2d. Expenses – Publicity (including appeal letters), £20 11s. 7d.; programmes (including £11 5s. prizes for competition), £36 5s.; refreshments for bandsmen and other detachments, £12 2s. 5d.; General expenses (including loud speaker, transports, stationery, inaugural ceremony, cartage and labour), £30 6s. 6d.; total, £99 5s. 6d.; leaving a balance of £2,831 9s 8d. It was mentioned that receipts from the sale of programmes amounted to £72 2s. 9.
TRIBUTE TO VOLUNTARY. WORKERS.
Mr. Franks, in his report on the Week, said that, inspired by the motto of the campaign, “Wings for Victory,” and having in mind the immeasurable debt owed to the Royal Air Force, the National Savings group and street secretaries worked with such energy and enthusiasm to obtain the set target of £280,000 that it was possible to announce after the first few days of the campaign that that figure had been passed, and by the end of the Week the total raised was more than 50 per cent. higher than the target. Few could realise the tremendous amount of time and labour which these voluntary workers devoted towards the National Savings effort, not only during special drives, but throughout the 52 weeks of the year. Special thanks were due to them for the valuable services they continued to render.
From the inaugural ceremony to the closing ceremony, every event showed that a great amount of work had been performed by the special committees, district committees and sub-committees and organisers, and it was gratifying to know that in addition to raising over £430,000 in savings, they would be able to assist the benevolent funds of the Fighting Forces and the Merchant Navy in an appreciable manner.
The effort by so many voluntary helpers on behalf of the Fighting Fund was a noteworthy achievement, and he could not speak too highly of the manner in which they gave of their time and energy and worked so harmoniously together to achieve so magnificent a result. From the efforts of these voluntary helpers a wonderful community spirit had been apparent, and he strongly recommended that the district committees formed for “Wings” Week should continue to meet and arrange social gatherings from time to time, thus fostering the community spirit in their respective districts which would undoubtedly tend to strengthen and stimulate the National Savings Movement in the urban district. Not least among the social benefits that arose from the Savings campaign was the influence that it exerted upon the future generation of citizens.
Mr. Franks concluded with thanks to the president, Mr. T. Harrison, and Mr. A.G. Beechey, and all who had helped in the district obtaining its objective.
PRESENTATION OF PLAQUE.
Group Captain Gordon then presented the plaque on behalf of the Secretary of State for Air. He congratulated the district on its most successful efforts during the Wings for Victory campaign, and said the result showed that the district had whole-heartedly supported the Royal Air Force in its war tasks, and the Secretary of State for Air accepted this as a tribute to the work of the R.A.F.
Mr. Beecher Bryant, in accepting the plaque, thanked Group Captain Gordon for his personal assistance in connection with the Week, and said it was appropriate that, having performed the inaugural ceremony, he should be associated with the closing phases of the campaign.
The local Savings Committee were proud of their achievement and, recognising as they did that finance was of great importance to the war effort, he was satisfied that the inhabitants of this district would continue to support their National Savings movement, and would respond to any calls that may be made upon them now towards winning the war, or any calls that may be made upon them after the war to assist in winning the peace.
WORKERS THANKED.
He expressed his gratitude to the whole of the inhabitants of the district for all they had done during the campaign, and particularly thanked the vice-president, Admiral Beal, for his wonderful assistance, and the chairmen, secretaries, organisers and members of the district committees. The figures in relation to investments and contributions to the Fighting Fund showed clearly that every district in the area had played its parts to the full. He particularly thanked Mr. Beechey of Martins Bank, Sidcup (hon. Treasurer), and Mr. Franks, upon whose shoulders such a tremendous amount of work fell. He was grateful to Mr. T. Harrison for all the assistance he had given, and expressed the hope that the local Savings Committee would now face any future calls that may be made upon them with full confidence that they would be able to discharge their responsibilities.
BOMBERS’ LOG-BOOKS.
Mr. Harrison presented the log-books to be used in the bombers bought from the investments made in the area, and it was agreed that the district committees (St. Paul’s Cray and North Cray combining as one) should be invited to inscribe the names of their workers in the log-books before they were despatched to the Secretary of State for Air. It was reported that these books would ultimately be returned to the district with a complete history of the activities of the crews allocated to the bombers.
A discussion took place in connection with the allocation of the balance of the Fighting Fund and it was agreed that £2,700 should be allocated to the benevolent funds of the three Fighting Services and the Merchant Navy. In order that the donations may be paid over to the officially recognised funds, it was agreed that a committee consisting of Mr. Beecher Bryant, Admiral Beal, Mrs. Beecher Bryant, Mrs. Pierce, Captain Downes and Mr. G. White, be appointed to ascertain the names of the actual funds to which the contribution should be made.
In conclusion, Vice-Admiral Beal moved a hearty vote of thanks to the president and Mrs. Beecher Bryant for all they had done throughout the campaign. He paid tribute to the inspiring lead given by the president and his wife and expressed the gratitude of the committee to them for their very valuable assistance.
CHISLEHURST-SIDCUP RECORD.
MOST GROUPS AND MEMBERS IN KENT.
A meeting of the Chislehurst-Sidcup National Savings Executive Committee followed. Mr. Beecher Bryant presided, supported by the officers.
The hon. Secretary (Mr. Gaffney) submitted statistics showing the weekly savings up to the end of July, bringing the total up to date to £3443,327.
It was reported that nine new groups had been formed since the last meeting, making a total of 477 for the whole area, which was the largest number of groups in the whole of Kent. The total number of members for the district was 19,892, which was also the highest membership in any district in Kent. This was equal to 33 per cent. of the population, but it was felt that these satisfactory figures might possibly be increased during the “Raise the Standard” campaign which would take place during the coming months.
Reports were received from each of the district committees showing that the work of the movement is being well looked after in every part of the urban area.
Vice-Admiral Beal submitted a report on the regional conference he had attended for which he was thanked.
“RAISE THE STANDARD.”
Particulars were submitted of the “Raise the Standard” campaign which the district was asked to carry out during the next three months. The campaign will aim at increasing the membership in each road group to 75 per cent. of the householders in each road, and in places of employment to 50 per cent of the people employed.
It was agreed that the district committees should be asked to give consideration to the proposed campaign, and to work out their own plans for their respective districts.
[article]
FOR GALLANTRY.
Pilot Officer H.R. Madgett, D.F.M.
Pilot Officer Hedley Robert Madgett, of 127, Longlands-road, Sidcup, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal, and is at the same time reported missing. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.R. Madgett, received the telegram containing this news last week.
[Photograph]
The official citation in connection with the award states that he has completed many successful sorties against strongly defended targets in Germany and Italy. On one occasion when detailed to attack Oberhausen, the bomb aimer, navigator, and flight-engineer lost consciousness owing to lack of oxygen, and Pilot-Officer Madgett (then sergeant) completed the mission successfully. On another occasion his aircraft was damaged by anti-aircraft fire during an attack, but he continued, dropped the bombs, and secured a photograph of the target area. He has displayed outstandingg [sic] courage, cheerfulness and determination on all his sorties, in face of the heaviest fire.
Born at Hither Green, Pilot-Officer Madgett is 20, and was educated at the Chislehurst-Sidcup County School. Before enlisting in 1940 he was employed as a clerk. He is keen on running.
P/O C.R. Wilson, D.F.C.
Pilot Officer Claud Robert Wilson, R.A.F.V.R., who was born at Dover in 1922 has just been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. His home is at Sidcup, and he was educated at Dover County School. He served in the ranks before being commissioned in the R.A.F.V.R. in 1943.
“Pilot Officer Wilson has at all times,” states the citation, “shown exceptional keenness to participate in operations and has taken part in attacks on some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany, including Essen, Duisberg, Dortmund, Berlin and Wilhelmshaven. He has invariably pressed home his attacks with determination, displaying courage and a fine fighting spirit. This officer’s splendid example and his outstanding skill as a pilot and captain of aircraft have made his crew one of the most successful in the squadron.”
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Kentish times page with announcement of Distinguished Flying Medal.Notice parents living in Sidcup. Citation states carried out many successful sorties and noted on one operation that some crew lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen and on another his aircraft was damage but he carried out attack. Surrounded by other articles. Classified advertisements on the reverse.
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Mathers, Ronald. Album
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45 page scrapbook of Squadron life and The Goodwill Tour to the United States by 35 Squadron in 1946. It includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, and programmes. The tour visited stations on both the East and West coasts of the United States and the airmen were entertained with visits to Hollywood.
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[Sketch]
ATC WELCOMES R.A.F. SQ. #35 TO WESTOVER FIEL [missing letters]
[page break]
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM FOR RAF SQUADRON #35
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, AUGUST 1946
[underlined] Entertainment Committee: [/underlined]
Col. Cortlandt S. Johnson – Chairman
Col. Anthony G. Hunter – Deputy Base Commander
Daniel B. Brunton – Mayor of Springfield Tel. 6-2711
Edward Bourbeau – Mayor of Chicopee Tel. 1542
Henry J. Toepfert – Mayor of Holyoke Tel. 2-5588
Arthur B. Long – Mayor of Westfield Tel. West. 726
Major Alexander Haddon – 1387 Main St., Spfld. Tel. 4-3581
Harry B. Ellis – Overbrook Rd., Long. Tel. 4-6421
Harry G. Green – Spfld. Chamber Commerce Tel. 4-5673
Clarence J. Shoo – Circuit Ave., M.S. Tel. 4-8268
Lewis Z. Tifft – 1387 Main St., Spfld. Tel. 4-7311
Captain Russell D. Webb – Public Relations Officer
Lt. Victor E. Irons, Jr. – Public Relations Officer
Captain Gregory Dobrenchuck – Public Relations Officer
[underlined] WEDNESDAY [/underlined] 14 August
Morning
0800 – C-54 leaves Westover for Logan Airport, Boston to pick up newsmen, fly to Andrews Field, Washington, D.C., leave newsmen and pick up surplus RAF personnel and return to Westover. C-47 leaves Westover with local newsmen flying directly to Andrews and return with surplus RAF personnel.
Afternoon
1500 – Reception ceremony and squadron arrival to take place on north ramp in front of traffic terminal vehicle parking area. Colonel Cortlandt S. Johnson, C.O. Westover Field, British Consul General Bernard Ponsonby Sullivan MBE: Consul, W.J. Blanch; civic dignitaries; members of the press (plus band and honor guard) meet planes.
1700 – Cocktail party and buffet supper at Officers Club. Attendance RAF Officers, Colonel Johnson and staff, hosts, Consu[missing letters] General, Consul, civic dignitaries and members of the press. Similar party t[missing letters] be held at Services Club (Bldg. T-456)
[page break]
Page 3
Evening:
1945 – RAF EM will board busses [sic] at barracks for dance in Holyoke at War Memorial Building to begin at 2000. Partners and buffet supper will be provided.
Officers:
Morning – Two officers all day guests of Mr. R. Rudd, Tel. Springfield 7-0397.
1100 – RAF officers board busses [sic] before officers BOQ to be guests of Colony Club, Springfield, for cocktails and luncheon at 1130. Address: Maple Street, Springfield, Mass.
1200 – Two officers guests of Rotary Club luncheon.
Staff car will pick up officers at BOQ.
1400 – Officers leave Colony Club, Springfield, by government transportation for golf, tennis, cocktails, dinner and evening at Longmeadow Country Club.
1500 – 35 officers board plane for British officers club tea to be held in Boston. Address: 99 State St., Boston, Mass.
[underlined] SATURDAY [/underlined] 17 August
Morning – Regular Morning Drill of Westover Field personnel.
Afternoon
1400 – Open House. Inspection of British Lancasters by the general public with each crew of Squadron 35 standing by to answer questions of interested spectators.
Evening
2100 – Staff car pick up Group Captain Collard at BOQ for Speech over WMAS, Springfield at 2145.
[underlined] SUNDAY [/underlined] 18 August
Squadron take-off for Mitchell Field, Long Island.
RAF Command Post – Bldg. 256
Field Grade Officer's Barracks – Bldg. 165
Company Grade Officer's Barracks – Bldg. 498
Warrant Officer's Barracks – Bldg. 257
Enlisted Men's barracks – Bldg. 258 & 261
[page break]
[missing word] UNION, SPRINGFIELD, MASS., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1946
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
[italics] Springfield Union Photo [/italics]
MEMBERS OF THE LANCASTER BOMBER SQUADRON, RAF, were feted yesterday at the Longmeadow Country Club. The Britishers, who flew this week from England to Westover Field, were dinner guests at the club and a special program of sports, including golf, was planned for them. In the top photo are pictured from left to right, Col. Cortlandt S. Johnson, commanding officer, Westover Field; Harry B. Ellis, Club president; Mrs. Ellis and Wing Commander Alan J.L. Craig. Enjoying the hospitable charms of two members of the younger set here are several RAF officers shown in the lower photo. Pictured from left to right, they are Flight Lt. H. G. Bullen, Flying Off. J.E. Robinson, Miss Jean Clark, Flying Off. W. Haigh, Miss Jane Harper, Flying Off. F.P. Leadem and Flying Off. Jack Smith.
RAF OPEN HOUSE TO BE TODAY AT WESTOVER FIELD
Public Will Be Given Chance to Inspect Lancaster Bombers
The Westover Field RAF visitors, Pathfinder Squadron 35, will hold open house from 2 to 5 this afternoon to permit the public to view at close range the 16 Lancaster bombers which are completing their good-will tour of America with a four day stop-over at the sprawling ATC base.
Can Talk With Crews
Group Capt. H.C.M. Collard of the RAF has extended through Col. Cortlandt S. Johnson, base commander, a cordial invitation to the members of the surrounding communities to visit Westover, examine the giant Lancasters, Britain's largest wartime bomber, and chat with their combat crew members. He feels, he said yesterday, that this open house is the best way in which he and his men of the squadron can express their deep appreciation for the most hospitable manner in which the citizens of the state have received and royally entertained them. Crews of the ships will be stationed besides the planes to answer all questions that visitors may put to them. Also on hand at open house will be the Westover Field band with a group of RAF and AAF selections to furnish a fitting background for a squadron which is credited with over 150 sorties against the Axis [indecipherable word].
Military guides will be placed at all gates and throughout the area to aid visitors.
Today is the final day of activity for Squadron 35 in this area. Tomorrow morning the ships will take off, circle Springfield and Holyoke, and then depart for Mitchell Field preparatory to their return trip to England. En route to New York, the planes will fly over Worcester and Boston, giving residents of those cities an opportunity to observe the tight battle formation which poor visibility prevent them from seeing when the RAF unit arrived at Westover on Wednesday.
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[Beer mat]
[underlined] 18th AUG – 22nd AUG. [/underlined]
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ATC welcomes RAF Sq #35 to Westover Field
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Item 1 is a typed entertainment programme for 35 Squadron at Westover Field.
Item 2 is a newspaper cutting about 35 Squadron and their social activities.
Item 3 is a newspaper cutting titled 'RAF Open House to be today at Westover Field'.
Item 4 is a beer mat 'You've got it Coming to you Hampden Ale 'Smild but Sturdy'
Item 5 is a photograph of a the 'X' restaurant signed by women.
The pages are dated 18th-22nd Aug.
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1946-08
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SMathersRW55201v10043,
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SMathersRW55201v10045
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United States
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1946-08
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Angela Gaffney
35 Squadron
Goodwill tour of the United States (1946)
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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
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131 items contained in a scrapbook. Mainly newspaper cuttings of events from May 1942 to 1945.
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THE TIMES THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 1942
BATTLES OF PURSUIT AT STALINGRAD
DISORDERLY AXIS RETREAT IN THE NORTH-WEST
15,000 MORE PRISONERS TAKEN
“HOUR OF RECKONING HAS STRUCK”
The German forces before Stalingrad are threatened with encirclement both near the city and in the whole region of the Don elbow. In the north-western sector they are retreating in full disorder. Some 15,000 more prisoners have been taken, bringing the total up to 51,000.
The Russians have secured rich booty, much of it in perfect condition, and are using many enemy weapons against the Axis forces.
Our Military Correspondent writes that if the Germans decide [missing word] hold their ground in the Stalingrad sack they must counter-attack in the Don bend, probably from the west, where they are in greatest peril.
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Battles of pursuit at Stalingrad
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Headlines: battles of pursuit at Stalingrad, disorderly axis retreat in the north west, 15000 more prisoners taken, hour of reckoning has struck. German forces threatened with encirclement.
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The Times
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1942-11-26
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eng
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SValentineJRM1251404v10035
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Wehrmacht
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Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation)--Volgograd
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1942-11
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Green, Leonard
Len Green
L C Green
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Twelve items. The collection relates to the service of Warrant Officer Leonard C Green (1318527 Royal Air Force) and consists of his log book, correspondence, a newspaper cuttings, four photographs and a foreign languages phrase book. Leonard Green flew Lancasters with 50 and 61 Squadrons from RAF Skellingthorpe and completed 19 daylight and night time operations.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Mark Boother and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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2016-06-01
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Green, LC
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[Photograph]
BERLIN – HERE WE COME.
Crew of a Lancaster prepare for the take-off.
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Berlin here we come
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Photograph of Lancaster starboard wing with seven crew putting on parachutes and preparing to board aircraft. Caption 'Berlin here we come, Crew of a Lancaster prepare top take-off'.
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Twenty eight items. Folder containing work related correspondence and ministry of aircraft manufacture, aeronautical inspection directorate process reports.
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[underlined] BONDED QUARANTINE STORES TO INSPECTION INSTRUCTION A.33 AND M.412 [/underlined]
[underlined] "B" SHOP GROUP [/underlined] 20/4/43.
[underlined] Stores [/underlined]
Several pipes in finished part stores were found to be unmasked. It was arranged for them to be drawn out of store, cleaned and remasked. With the above exception all stores are in a satisfactory condition.
[underlined] Batching. [/underlined]
Is effectively carried out in Quarantine Stores and satisfactorily carried through to view room.
[underlined] Material Identification [/underlined]
Is well carried out to approved colour scheme as laid down in Inspection InstructionM.412.
[underlined] Remarks. [/underlined]
Enquiries were made at C.C.S. to ascertain why pipes were being delivered to various stores without masking. These revealed that masking tape is almost impossible to obtain, and so C.C.S. have no option but to allow pipes to be delivered unmasked, as they receive them in this condition, from other firms.
It was noticed that there is no store available for Hampden repaired assemblies. After inspection they are simply stacked against one wall of B Shop. This was brought to the notice of the Asst. Chief Inspector, but no action can be taken by him at present, owing to the acute shortage of floor space. The assemblies are to be subjected to a second inspection, immediately prior to assembly, to ensure that no damage has been sustained during storage.
J.F. Nolan
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124 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Maurice Cecil Stimpson DFC (1921 - 1944, 155249 Royal Air Force) and contains his log books, photographs, documents, and pennants. He flew operations as a pilot with 156 Squadron and was killed 15 February 1944. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Tony France and catalogued by Barry Hunter. <br /><br />Additional information on Maurice Cecil Stimpson is available via the <a href="https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/226992/">IBCC Loses Database.</a>
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[Embossed Crest]
COCHRAN FIELD
Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center
1942
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ARMY AIR FORCES
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WINGS over America
For their assistance in furnishing pictures and editorial assistance for this volume and their co-operation in numerous other ways, grateful acknowledgment is made to the following: Public Relations Office, Army Air Forces, Washington, D.C.; Public Relations Office, Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center, Maxwell Field, Alabama; Gulf Coast Army Air Forces Training Center, Randolph Field, Texas; Public Relations Office, First District, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, Miami Beach, Florida.
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Foreword
As members of the United States Armed Forces, you do not have to be told of the magnitude and importance of the task that lies before you.
At every base, station, and training field of the United States Army Air Forces, you are preparing yourselves for the great test of arms which will prove that the forces of democracy can destroy the evil power of the totalitarian nations.
Soon, you will take your places, as Bombardiers, Navigators, Pilots, and Gunners, alongside of our allies who have been fighting so valiantly. As mechanics and supply personnel, and in every type of ground duty, you will have the vital responsibility of making sure that our airplanes will be second to none.
We can win this war, and we will win it, but only if every officer and enlisted man puts forth all the fortitude and resourcefulness that Americans have always displayed in time of war.
There are trying times ahead, times that will test the mettle of all of us, but I am confident that the personnel of my command will acquit themselves with honor and distinction, no matter where and when we shall meet the enemy.
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Lieutenant General, U.S. Army.
Commanding General, Army Air Forces.
by Lieut. General H.H. Arnold
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LIEUTENANT GENERAL HENRY H. ARNOLD
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Captain Beck, Lieutenant Arnold, Captain Chandler, Lieutenant Milling, Lieutenant Kirtland.
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1908 Orville Wright
First flight September 5, 1908.
With the reorganization of the aviation setup of the United States Army, on March 9, 1942, has come the latest phase of the development of the nation’s military aviation from its groping, experimental days to its present status as an autonomous unit within the structure of the Army.
The story of the rapid growth of our nation’s military aviation, from an unimportant subdivision of the Signal Corps before the first World War, through the period when it was a corps of its own, the Air Corps, and now to a degree of tremendous importance as the Army Air Forces, co-equal in prominence with all the other Army combat arms combined, is a stirring saga of courage and inspiration, of indomitable will and far-sighted genius, all within the short space of 33 years.
The utilization of aviation by the Army, however, antedates 1909, the official birth year. Civilian aeronauts made observations from captive balloons for the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War, and later the Army purchased a balloon in France which was used in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
It was not, however, until the experiments of Langley, Maxim, Lillienthal, Bleriot, the Wrights and others had focused attention on the possibilities of heavier-than-air machines did the Army consider seriously this newest military adjunct. It was not until the Wrights had demonstrated that a heavier-than-air machine was not only feasible, but practical did the Army advertise for bids for the construction of an airplane. An aeronautical division of the Army was created in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army on July 1, 1907.
The Wright brothers produced an airplane which was delivered to Fort Myer, Virginia, on August 28, 1908. It as a biplane with a wing spread of about 40 feet and a wing area of some 500 square feet weighing approximately 800 pounds. The lateral controls were affected by warping the wings. The double elevator and the rudder were supported in front of the wings by an outrigger. The landing gear consisted of two runners, or skids, and the plane was launched from a monorail. After a series of disappointing accidents and many tests, the Board of Officers appointed to examine the plane made a favorable recommendation on August 2, 1909, and the Chief Signal Officer approved the recommendation the same day. This date is considered the birthday of the Army Air Forces.
While thus inaugurating the air arm of the service on this date, the value of aircraft in a military way was not immediately apparent, particularly to a nation at peace, and it was not until March, 1911, almost two years later, that Congress for the first time specifically appropriated money for aviation…to the tune of $125,000. By September, 1913, Army aviation had grown slowly until it had 17 planes, with a personnel of 23 officers and 91 enlisted men.
Inasmuch as the original conception of the role of aircraft in warfare was purely that of observation the control of military aviation was left in the hands of the Signal Corps, and indeed aviation remained in this branch until 1918, when it was divorced from the Signal Corps and expanded into two departments – the Bureau of Military Aeronautics and the Bureau of Aircraft Production. Upon the termination of the war these two departments were consolidated into the Air Service.
The first actual use of aircraft by the Army began in March, 1916, when the First Aero Squadron, composed of 16 officers, 77 enlisted men and eight airplanes began operations with the Punitive Expedition in Mexico.
The World War, of course, with its constantly accelerating emphasis
Wilbur Wright at Fort Myer, July 27, 1909.
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Orville Wright in flight, Maxwell Field, 1910.
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The DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARMY AIR FORCES
upon air power, was responsible for the rapid expansion of the American aviation. By the time of our declaration of war upon Germany in April of 1917, Army aviation consisted of 65 officers (35 of whom were flyers, 1,087 enlisted men and 55 airplanes. No better commentary can be made upon the changing role of air power at the beginning of the World War and of the present conflict than to compare this number with the 10,697 officers, 126,660 enlisted men and 8,707 aviation cadets which we had on June 30, 1941, with the number constantly increasing under the impetus of the greatest expansion program in history.
During the first eight years of its existence, 1909-1916 – a total of 142 airplanes had been delivered to Army Aviation. Congress, in July of 1917, appropriated $640,000,000 for Army Aviation, the largest appropriation which had ever been made up until that time for any single purpose. Working as rapidly as possible, the country began the gigantic task of catching up in production with countries long at war. The first task as to train American flyers and for this purpose flying schools and ground schools were set up at a number of schools and colleges. Nearly 15,000 flying cadets received training in this country, and about 1,800 in Europe. By March, 1918, our Army Aviation strength was 11,000 officers and 120,000 enlisted men.
At the time of the Armistice we had 757 pilots, 481 observers with 740 planes and 77 balloons at the front, and 1,402 pilots, 769 airplanes and 252 balloon observers had entered the Zone of Advance.
While at the time of the Armistice less than 25 per cent of the planes flown by American pilots were of American manufacture, we were already beginning to swing into large scale production, principally of British designed DeHavillands and Handley-Page’s equipped with the American Liberty motor, the greatest contribution of American manufacturers to the war effort.
American aviators were officially credited with the destruction of 491 enemy airplanes, of which 462 were accounted for by 63 aviators. We had 43 squadrons at the front at the time of the Armistice.
Following the conclusion of the war, our air strength was allowed to dwindle to 1,000 officers and 10,000 men.
The Army Reorganization Act of 1920 provided for 1,516 officers and 10,300 enlisted men for the Air Service, and the Air Corps Act of 1926 authorized a “Five Year Program” which contemplated at its conclusion a personnel strength of 1,650 officers and 15,000 enlisted men with 500 cadets, and equipment consisting of 1,800 serviceable planes.
On March 1, 1935, the famous GHQ Air Force was established, embracing all tactical Air Corps Units within the Continental United States. Prior to its formation combat squadrons were trained under widely different methods, depending upon the conceptions of the Group Commanders. The purpose, which was accomplished, of the GHQ Air Force, was to coordinate the systems of training so as to produce uniformity and the ability to operate together as a team. Another accomplishment was the later development of the combat crew as a fighting team. In practice, the same officers and men were assigned to the same airplane, and each team, through constant cooperation and practice, was able to attain a high degree of efficiency.
Even more important than all these innovations, however, was the fact that the Air Corps, as it was known then, was, for the first time, under a unified command, and under an air officer, Major General Frank M. Andrews (now a Lieutenant General in command of the Caribbean Defense Command). Here was another notable step toward the fullest development of our Army Air arm as an independently functioning entity, complete within itself.
This organization of air power into a highly mobile striking force of great unified power had, as its backbone, the function of Bombardment. The GHQ Air Force was divided into three Wings.
The First Wing, with headquarters at March Field, California, comprised two Bombardment Groups, one Attack Group, and two Reconnaissance Squadrons.
The Second Wing, with headquarters at Langley Field, Virginia, comprised two Bombardment and two Pursuit Groups, and two Reconnaissance Squadrons.
The Third Wing, at Barksdale Field, Louisiana, was composed of one Attack and one Pursuit Group.
But even this organization was to be changed soon by the pressure of ever-increasing expansion of our Army Aviation. On June 23, 1941, the Army Air Forces was established. These included the Headquarters, Army Air Forces, the Air Force Combat Command (which superceded the GHQ Air Force), the Air Corps and all other air
They Flew Them When. – Major H.H. Arnold, Major Thomas Dewitt Milling, pioneer military aviators, and Army planes of 30 years ago – taken in 1912 when Army air strength consisted of two planes.
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Burgess Tractor – 1914.
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Early Curtiss Training Plane No. 30 – at North Island, San Diego, California
WORLD WAR NO. 1 AND OUR
units. At the same time an Air Council was created to review and coordinate major Army aviation projects. The Air Council included Assistant Secretary of War for Air, Robert A. Lovett (ex-officio). Lieutenant General H.H. Arnold, president of the council, Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, Major General George A. Brett, and the Chief of the War Plans Division of the War Department General Staff.
In addition to his duties as Deputy Chief of Staff (Air), General Arnold became Chief of the Army Air Forces. General Emmons was made Chief of the Air Force Combat Command, and General Brett, Chief of the Air Corps.
At the end of May, 1941, the Ferrying Command was organized to speed up the process of getting bombers to our English allies. Originally under the command of Colonel Robert Olds (now a Brigadier General in command of the Second Air Force at Spokane, Washington), it is now commanded by Brigadier General Harold L. George, and designated Air Transport Command. Since Pearl Harbor its activities have been vastly expanded into a huge world-wide organization engaged in the transport of all types of aircraft, plus supplies, equipment, and personnel to all the fighting fronts.
By the final reorganization, or “streamlining” which took place last March, the Air Corps ceased to exist, even as a purely administrative organization, and the Combat Command was eliminated, as well. The various combat Air Forces, which are complete units of themselves, are now directly under the command of overall field commanders such as General MacArthur, another step forward in unified command. It is interesting to note that many of these field commanders, whose commands comprise all arms of the service, are themselves air officers, such as General Andrews, in the Caribbean. Each Air Force is, of course, commanded by an Air Force Officer, of general grade, whether within the continental United States or overseas.
These combat forces include all units of military aviation such as bombardment, interception (fighter squadrons), observation, and ground-air support, together with the necessary maintenance service.
As a result of the March 9 change, the Air Forces are recognized as one of the three elements of the Army, together with Ground Forces and Supply. This new organization, designed to simplify and speed up the chain of command, and to provide the flexibility and efficiency of operation necessary to accomplish the enormous task that lies ahead, designates Lieutenant General H.H. Arnold as Commanding General, Army Air Forces, and also as Deputy Chief of Staff for Air on the Army General Staff. By the same reorganization, Lieutenant General Joseph T. McNarney, one of the ablest American air strategists, was made Deputy Chief of Staff.
In addition to these two officers, however, the Air Forces have a far greater representation than ever on the General Staff. As a matter of fact, the General Staff, as now constituted, is about one-half composed of officers from the Air Staff.
The Air Staff, which is rather like a Staff within a Staff, and which is a purely Air Forces organization, is similar in general outline to the General Staff, but on a slightly smaller scale, with designations such as A-1, A-2, etc.
The complexity and extension of Army aviation from its simple Signal Corps days until the present is no better illustrated than by a brief review of the various branches of the Air Forces. The overall picture of the Army Air Forces organization may be summed up under four key words: Policy, Forces, Operations and Commands.
The Policy function has already been discussed at the start of this article. It is handled by the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces and the Air Staff, plus the Air Forces participation in the Army General Staff. In addition to the Assistant Chiefs of the Air Staff (A-1, A-2, A-3 and A-4), there is an Air Inspector.
The various Air Forces, which are the combat organizations of the Army Air Forces, have been covered in paragraphs above.
The next group in the logical breakdown of the Army Air Forces organization is the Operations Staff; this is divided into Military Requirements, Technical Services, and seven administrative agencies: the Public Relations Officer, Director of Personnel, the Air Surgeon, Air Judge Advocate, Budget Officer, Director of Management Control, and Military Director of Civil Aviation.
Now for the fourth element of the organization of the Army Air Forces: operating directly under the Commanding General of the
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Army Air Forces, seven great commands compose the last stages of Air Forces preparation for combat units. It may be of interest to outline the functions of these various Commands.
1. The MATERIAL COMMAND. Experimental aviation activities, which were carried on at Washington by a few technicians prior to the World War, were concentrated at Dayton, Ohio, on November 5, 1917, under the command of Colonel V.E. Clark, Signal Corps. The laboratories, located at McCook Field, were supplemented by offices in Dayton. In 1926 the Air Service became the Air Corps and the functions of supply, procurement and maintenance of aircraft were added to this division, and the name changed to “Material Division.”
The location of the division was changed from McCook Field to Wright Field in 1926.
The Material Division has figured directly or indirectly in nearly all important aircraft developments, commercial as well as military. It is the great experimental and testing branch of the Air Force and includes among its many accomplishments superchargers, the “Whirlwind” engine, use of ethylene glycol for high temperature cooling, high octane gasoline, vibration control, metal propellers, night and instrument flying, haze penetrating film for aerial photography, night and color photography, and many other developments.
2. THE FLYING TRAINING COMMAND. While the Headquarters of the Air Corps Training Center began to function at Duncan Field, San Antonio, Texas, in 1936, flying training in the Army has been continuous almost since the purchase of the first Wright airplane in 1909.
The first Army flying school was established at College Park, Maryland, in October, 1909. Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm and Frederick E. Humphreys were the first students of the Wright brothers. Lieutenant Lahm later became a Brigadier General and commanded the Training Center from its inception in September, 1926, until August 31, 1930. This veteran flyer is now Air Officer of the Second Corps Area at Governors Island, New York. Among the first five Army aviators were Lieutenant H.H. Arnold, now Lieutenant General. Among them also was Lieutenant Benjamin D. Foulois, now Major General, retired. General Foulois became a Brigadier General at the age of 38 as Chief of the Air Service of the First Army, American Expeditionary Force. He became a Major General and Chief of the Air Corps on December 20, 1931.
The function of the Flying Training Command, is, of course, to co-ordinate and direct the immense job of providing officers and men for the vastly expanding Air Forces. In order to accomplish this with the greatest efficiency and to eliminate the possibility of administrative bottlenecks, General Arnold set up the Flying Training Command, as it now exists, under the command of Major General Barton K. Yount, with headquarters at Fort Worth, Texas. This command is divided in three great regional training areas, one in the Southeast, on in the Gulf Coast region, and one in the Southwest. All of these regional training areas are complete within themselves, providing their own Reception Centers, Replacement Centers, Primary, Basic, and Advanced Schools (for pilot trainees), and Navigator Schools. Bombardier trainees, however, are all sent to schools located in the Southwestern part of the country, where weather conditions are best
AIR FORCE STRENGTH GROWS
Top Picture: 213th Aero Squadron, Second Army – Enlisted Men. Bottom Picture: Officers and Planes – N. 13 Pursuit Squadron, Third Pursuit Group.
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Captain C. Def. Chandler and Lieutenant Roy. T. Kirtland – in Wright Type B airplanes with Lewis machine gun, June 7, 1912. – The first machine gun ever fired from airplane (Lieutenant Kirtland was pilot for test).
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for this particular type of training. The Flying Training Command also provides for instruction in fixed and flexible gunnery.
3. The TECHNICAL TRAINING COMMAND. The first effort to train Army aviation mechanics systematically was during the early days of the World War, utilizing state universities and civil technical schools. The system was a failure, due to the large costs involved as well as other reasons. Therefore, the Aviation Section, Signal Corps, established schools at St. Paul, Minnesota, and at Kelly Field, Texas. The Kelly Field school was discontinued after the Armistice.
In 1921 the school was moved to Chanute Field, Illinois, and in 1922 the Photographic School, at Langley Field and the Communications School, at Fort Sill were consolidated with it.
The school outgrew its area and in 1935 another site was sought for a second school, and a second school was established at Lowry Field, near Denver, Colorado.
The present expansion program of Army Aviation has necessitated the further expansion of the mechanic training program in order to provide the ever increasing Air Forces with an adequate supply of trained mechanics, particularly in view of the fact that engines and equipment are constantly becoming more complex as well as progressively more modern.
The Technical Training Command provides technical training for Army Air Forces personnel not trained by the Flying Training Command. Under this category come not only ground crew personnel,
Lieutenant Henry H. Arnold in Wright B airplane, College Park, Maryland, 1911.
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such as mechanics, but also such aircrew members as the aerial engineer and communications officer.
4. The AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND, as discussed previously, is concerned with air transport, for military use all over the world.
5. The AIR SERVICE COMMAND operates air depots, repairs aircraft, and distributes aircraft, equipment, and supplies to air units in the United States.
6. The TROOP TRANSPORT COMMAND transports air-borne troops and equipment, parachute troops and equipment, and tows troop- and cargo-carrying gliders.
7. The PROVING GROUND COMMAND operates proving grounds to test aircraft and equipment.
AIR COMBAT
It is quite probable that it is entirely too soon to attempt to define the role of the airplane in relation to the other combat forces of a nation. In spite of that fact there has been raging, and indeed still goes on, a debate between those who feel that air power has to a large extent superceded sea power and even land power as the deciding element in modern warfare, and those who feel that this extreme theory has yet to be supported by actual facts. There are extremists who argue, like the Russian designer Seversky and the Italian General Douhet, that the day of the surface fleet is over, and that the future wars will be decided by the relative merits of the air forces of the combatants. On the other hand, we have the sure evidence of the failure of bombing alone either to permanently disrupt the war effort of a country or to terrorise its civilians into demands that its government surrenders. In neither the Spanish Civil War nor in this war, up until the present, has it been possible for the advocates of air power alone to prove their contentions.
At the same time it must be granted that no nation has as yet been able to mount the type of air attack envisioned by those who hold that it will be air power that will decide the war. It seems likely, however, that this theory will be given a thorough test before the war is done.
Certainly it is true that the conception of the airplane has already undergone a remarkable series of changes since the beginning of the World War, when it was regarded not in the light of a combat weapon at all. Indeed the first airplanes used in the World War were almost always of one type, a two-seater designed for reconnaissance work. As the war progressed specialization appeared and a class of airplanes designed first for air fighting then for bombing appeared. Several nations, prior to the war, has experimented with the arming of aircraft with machine guns, but on the outbreak of the war no plane on the front was so armed. Rifles, carbines, pistols and hand grenades were carried by the pilot and observer. The tactics of air fighting were rudimentary. The pilots simply flew close to the enemy and when within range the pilot and the observer blazed away with any weapon they happened to have handy.
In the summer of 1915, belligerants began to mount machine guns in the planes, usually on a swivel bar at the back of the observer’s seat. The observer could only fire the gun backward toward the tail of the plane, firing over the pilot’s head, which made for a very restricted zone of fire. This necessitated that in order to fire on an opponent, the plane had to fly away from the enemy, thus making it very difficult to be effective. The British experimented with a type of plane in which the gun was mounted in the front and the motors faced the rear. This type gave the advantage of frontal firing, but was so slow on climbing and flight that it was abandoned within a short time.
The first real fighting aircraft to make its appearance was the German Fokker monoplane. Fast, maneuverable, and of the tractor type, the plane had a machine gun mounted in such a fashion as to synchronize with the revolutions of the propeller, thus allowing it to be fired straight ahead. The pilot aimed the gun by aiming the airplane. This plane was so obviously superior to those of the Allies that command of the air had passed to the Germans throughout the rest of the year. In 1916, however, the British were able to challenge the Germans by producing their own type of front firing plane, although it was not until near the end of 1916 that the Allies were able to produce machine gun mounted planes of the Fokker type.
The success of the Fokker airplane was responsible for the advent of formation flying. Casualties among the French and British had grown so heavy that individual flights were discontinued and flights of three or more planes took their place. The Germans retaliated and by the end of the war patrols were the accepted form of air tactics.
It early became apparent to air-minded officers that great damage could be inflicted upon the enemy by dropping bombs from aircraft on his troops, ammunition dumps, factories and other military installations. Indeed, many of the early fighters attempted some rudimentary bombing flights, using hand grenades. These were usually
Wright airplane – First plane in Philippine Islands at Fort McKinley, 1912 – Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, pilot.
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First plane used by American aviators in France during World War (1918), Morane Roulier, airplane.
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99th Aero Squadron officers in front of planes.
Salinson plane. 91st Squadron.
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Wright machine; with P. Parmalee and Lieutenant M.S. Crissy with first explosive aerial bomb.
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Ineffective except in rare instances. Bombs were then devised which could be dropped from the plane. In early bombing raids the bombs were carried in the cockpit of ordinary fighter planes and heaved over the side by the observer whenever he judged himself to be in a position to hit his target. This was a clumsy, inaccurate system, however, that soon lead to the design of an entirely different craft made for bombing alone, and equipped with machine guns for protection. These planes, which were growing larger and larger as the war progressed, were equipped with bomb racks controlled by mechanisms within the bomber, and carried crews from three to six men. They were utilized at first as lone raiders, depending on stealth and surprise to accomplish their tasks, but by 1917 there had evolved the system of formation attacks by squadrons of bombers escorted by fighter planes as a protective screen. The Germans used this system first to great advantage, and by concentrating very large flights were able not only to concentrate the power of the bombing assault, but have enough fighters to sweep the skies of the opposition.
In addition to the duties of Reconnaissance, the original role of the airplane, had been added the duty of patrol, straffing and bombing, with the Bombardment arm always tending to become more and more important.
After the war the Air Services of all countries began to experiment more and more with the development of bombing planes of increased power and destructive ability. It was realised that it was increasingly possible for planes to inflict very heavy damage on the enemy from the air.
The development of bombsights by all the major powers was to a large degree responsible for this. The American bombsight was recognized as being probably the most accurate of any developed in this period. Accuracy in hitting a predetermined target was coupled with increased altitude which made the planes more safe from enemy fighters and antiaircraft attack. Increased speed and range of the planes has developed down until the present time, when every belligerant possesses bombers capable of flying immense distances with heavy bomb loads.
The United States was among the first to develop the art of dive bombing, wherein the plane is pointed downward at the target and releases its bomb very low, depending upon the tremendous speed of the dive for protection. The dive bomber is very accurate inasmuch as the pilot has the target before him on the way down and does not release his bombs until just above it. It remained for the Germans to develop this to the highest, and it was employed with great success in the battle of France. Many military experts say that the Stuka dive bomber is the greatest single contribution of the war to air combat. The Germans also experimented with and developed the use of air-borne soldiers, utilizing the parachute, originally a safety device, as an instrument for the dropping of offensive men behind the enemy lines. The Russians also have used this extensively, and paratroops are now a part of every belligerant Army. Troop transports capable of carrying many men, supplies and equipment have also been developed, and in the battle of Crete the Germans used air-borne troops to carry the brunt of the battle.
The Japanese and the British have both added chapters to the development of air combat by the use of the torpedo-carrying planes as an effective weapon with which to attack enemy warcraft which are not heavily protected by fighter planes. The English at Taranto and the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and off Malaya demonstrated that unprotected warships can be sunk with relative ease by planes of this type unless they are in turn protected by fighter planes based either on land or on accompanying aircraft carriers.
The day of the spectacular individual air “ace” has apparently closed, as pilots are taught more and more to fly and to fight in absolute formation. Formations are increasing in size as the strength of the warring nations in the air continues to grow.
There has been a growing belief on the part of military men that the day of air power in combat is only begun, and that this war will produce innovations and changes equally as great as those produced in the World War. It is certain that each day, all over America, more and more fighters, bombardiers, navigators, observers, gunners, mechanics and technicians are being trained for whatever role shall be assigned them in America’s growing air armada.
CHIEF OF THE AIR CORPS (Now Army Air Forces)
During the World War, Army Aviation was divided into the Bureau of Military Aeronautics, directed by Major General William L. Kenly, and the Bureau of Aircraft Production, directed by Mr. John D. Ryan, the copper magnate. With the advent of peace, these bureaus were consolidated under one title – Air Service – under the command of Major General Charles T. Menoher, who had commanded the 42nd (Rainbow) Division overseas.
On October 4, 1921, General Menoher was succeeded by Major General Mason M. Patrick. He remained in command until his retirement on December 13, 1927, and was succeeded by Major General James E. Fechet, who served until his retirement in 1931.
Major General Benjamin D. Foulois served for four years, until December, 1935, when he was succeeded by Major General Oscar Westover, who served until his death in a flying accident in 1938. At that time Major General (now Lieutenant General) H.H. Arnold took over and to him has fallen the immense task of directing the Air Force through the present period of war.
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ARMY AIR FORCES ACCOMPLISHMENTS
From the end of the World War to the present time, the Air Forces have pioneered in numerous aviation activities. A few of these flights and activities, chronologically arranged, are as follows:
1920-February 27. Major Rudolph W. Schroeder established a world’s altitude record of 33,000 feet.
1921-February 12. The Army Air Service successfully completed a Washington, D.C., to Dayton, Ohio, flight.
1921-September 1. The Army Air Service successfully completed a total of 396 forestry patrol flights in the Northwest.
1922- October 6. Lieutenants Oakley G. Kelly and John A. Macready established a world’s endurance record of 35 hours, 18 1-4 minutes.
1922-October 18. Brigadier General William Mitchell established a world’s record for speed over a measured 3-kilometer course of 224.38 m.p.h.
1922- November 4. Lieutenants Kelly and Macready established a world’s record for distance with a flight of 2,060 miles, from San Diego, California, to Fort Benjamin, Indiana.
1923-April 3. Six Army land planes completed a flight to Porto Rico and return.
1923-April 19. Marooned inhabitants of South Fox Island, off the coast of Michigan, were afforded relief through the dropping from Army planes of food and clothing.
1924-March 17. Four Army Douglas World Cruisers departed on an aerial journey around the world. Two of the planes successfully completed the flight of 27,550 miles in 175 days.
1925- November 20. Lieutenant George W. Goddard, Air Corps, made the first successful night aerial photograph.
1926-April 19. The first maneuvers involving the entire Air Service were held at Fairfield, Ohio, in which a total of 45 officers and 67 enlisted men participated, utilizing 44 airplanes.
1927-May 2. The “Good Will” flight returned from South America, after covering a distance exceeding 20,000 miles since December 21, 1926.
1927-May 4. Captain Hawthorne C. Gray, Air Corps, in a free balloon, reached 42,470 feet, the highest altitude ever attained by man up to that time.
1927-June 29. Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, Air Corps, landed at Honolulu, Hawaii, after having spanned 2,400 miles over the Pacific Ocean from Oakland, California.
1928-June 30. Captain William E. Kepner and Lieutenant William O. Eareckson, aide, representing the Air Corps in the International Free Balloon Race, won first honors, giving the United States permanent possession of the Gordon Bennett Trophy, since it marked the third consecutive time American aeronauts won this trophy.
1929-August 31. Captain Albert W. Stevens, Air Corps, photographed Mt. Rainier from an airplane which was at a distance of 227 miles from this mountain, exceeding by 50 miles any previous record in long-distance aerial photography.
1929-September 24. Lieutenant James H. Doolittle, Air Corps, in a public demonstration of “instrument flying,” accomplished a take-off and a landing solely through the use of instruments, for which he received the International League of Aviators Trophy.
1930-June 20-21. Randolph, San Antonio, Texas, Headquarters of the Air Corps Training Center, was dedicated.
1931-May 18-30, The annual Air Corps Field Exercises began at Dayton, Ohio, and ended at Washington, D.C. The Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Virginia was covered. The First Air Division participated comprising 692 officers, 69 flying cadets and 643 enlisted men. A total of 667 airplanes of all types was utilized in these exercises.
1932- May 9. Captain Albert F. Hegenberger accomplished the first solo flight entirely by instruments.
1933- Master Sergeant Ralph W. Bottriell, of Kelly Field, Texas, was presented the Distinguished Flying Cross for having made the first jump from an Army airplane with the free type parachute, in May, 1919. It was as a result of Sergeant Bottriell’s pioneering that the Air Corps developed the present type parachute.
1934-December 27. The Secretary of War approved the GHQ Air Force organization, and Lieutenant Colonel Frank M. Andrews, designated as its first Commander, was appointed a Major General.
1935-March 1. The GHQ Air Force was officially organized.
1935-August 29. Air Corps engineers made the first flight using the radio compass to control the automatic pilot and thus providing automatic radio navigation.
1935-November 11. Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson, Air Corps, reached 72,395 feet in the stratosphere balloon.
1935-December 27. Army bombers scored direct hits on the lava flow from the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii which was menacing the city of Hilo. The bombing tended to divert the lava flow to other channels.
1936-March. The Second Bombardment Group of Langley Field, Virginia, dropped 8,000 pounds of food and medical supplies to communities in Pennsylvania isolated by flood waters. A total of 45 officers and 100 enlisted men participated in these relief missions, utilizing 30 airplanes.
1936-February 10. Major Barney M. Giles, Air Corps; Second Lieutenant J.H. Patrick, Air Reserve; Staff Sergeant D.E. Hamilton and Corporal Frank B. Connor, Air Corps, took off from Concord, New Hampshire, about midnight and located seven CCC youths marooned on drifting ice in Cape Cod Bay. Major Giles circled over the party to show their position to Coast Guard personnel and other planes, which dropped food and blankets. Each of the four airmen received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
1936-June 29. Major General Frank M. Andrews made a non-stop distance record for amphibian planes by piloting the Douglas OA-5 1,425 miles from Porto Rico to Langley Field, Virginia, in 11 hours and 9 minutes.
1937-August 5. The Air Corps substratosphere plane, the Lockheed XC-35, made its initial performance flights at Wright Field, Ohio. Being equipped with a supercharged cabin, oxygen equipment was unnecessary.
1937-August 23. Captains Carl J. Crane and George V. Holloman, Air Corps, and Mr. Raymond K. Stout, Project Engineer, all of Wright Field, made two entirely automatic landings under adverse weather conditions.
1938-April 20. Four officers and five enlisted men began instruction at Patterson Field, Fairfield, made two entirely automatic landings under adverse weather conditions.
1938- February 15-27. Six B-17 bombers flew from Langley field, Virginia, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and return. The trip south involved landings at Miami, Florida, Lima, Peru, and Buenos Aires. Returning landings were made at Santiago, Chile, Lima and Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone.
1938-April 14. During a period of four days, all food, grain and supplies necessary for a Cavalry detachment of 30 men and 30 horses were dropped from an airplane in the mountains of the Big Bend District in Texas.
1939-February 4-6. Major C.V. Haynes, Air Corps, with a crew of 10 officers and men, flew the XB-15 bombardment plane from Langley Field, Virginia, to Santiago, Chile, with a load of vaccines and other medical supplies, totalling over 3,000 pounds, needed for earthquake sufferers. The distance of about 5,000 miles between Langley Field and Santiago was accomplished in 49 hours, 18 minutes elapsed time, and in a flying time of 29 hours and 53 minutes.
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CLASSIFICATION
PRE-FLIGHT
Fully equipped and proud of his new uniform an aviation cadet leaves the receiving building, a new man.
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Beginning CADET TRAINING
The first half hour is the easiest when a young American reports for training in the Army Air Forces. Having been examined, passed and signed up in his home town, he is then sent to the cadet Classification Center for actual induction – the first step on the tough but exciting road to his Army Air Forces Wings. What happens to him immediately on arrival is shown on this page. Having gone through the “first half hour” shown here, the cadet will soon be classified by aptitude tests for bombardier, navigator, or pilot training, and
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WHAT NEXT? is the cheerful attitude of a typical aviation cadet as he plunges into a new life at one of the Classification Centers. In less than half an hour he will be fully transformed from a civilian to a completely outfitted cadet.
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Above: THE COMPLETE CHANGE takes place in one large building. In the first room the aviation cadet is assigned to a squadron. On the next counter he will check in his luggage. Signs make questions unnecessary, and arrows on the floor lead cadets through the transition process from start to finish.
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Left: BLOCKING THE WAY ON THE “MAIN LINE” through the building is the shower room where the aviation cadets are required to give themselves a good scrubbing and to put civilian clothes in one of two barrack bags handed them. Second bag is for military clothes to be issued them.
Below: In footprints painted on the floor, the aviation cadet stands while experts size him up as to physical development. Expert alligns his backbone with two strings to see if it is perfectly straight. Physical records are kept on cadets throughout the training period with a view toward correcting minor ailments by specialized exercises.
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ON PARADE
sent to a specialized school in one of the training centers. Less than a year later he will emerge as one of the best flying officers in the world, ready to join Uncle Sam’s mighty air armada in actual combat.
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Above: Gone for the duration are civilian clothes. This aviation cadet tries on one of two pair of neat Army oxfords issued him. Civies are laid away in duffel bag.
Below, Top Picture: High-flying Army Air Forces fight low-crawling athlete’s foot effectively simply by preventing it. Each cade wears paper sandals from the shower until the time he puts on his shoes.
Bottom Picture: Snappy coat and cap are issued cadets at the end of the long clothing line. To transform this outfit to that of an officer if he is commissioned Second Lieutenant at the end of the course, cadet has only to put on Regular Air Forces insignia and remove blue band from his cap.
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Tug o’war on the athletic area.
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PRE-FLIGHT TRAINING
After completing the tests in the Classification Center, the new air corps man is assigned to a pre-flight training school for a training course prior to being sent to a Primary Flight School.
Future pilots who are to receive their pre-flight training are sent to one of several fields, where they undergo nine weeks of intensive training.
The training program for the pre-flight pilot is in three major divisions, stressing athletics, military and academic work. They are given one hour a day in athletics and one hour is devoted to military training. The military training consists of close order drill which tends to improve military carriage and to teach discipline. Each man is drilled in the elements of military courtesy and receives actual practice in firing the 45 caliber pistol.
The academic program includes extensive studies in mathematics, physics, military law, citizenship, national policy, organization of the United States Government, the Air Corps, the Army, current events, types of Air Force equipment and armament, command and administration in small units, the firing of the 45 caliber pistol, and defense against chemical attack.
Each four and one half weeks, a new group is sent in from the Classification Center to the Pre-Flight Pilot School and each class moves up. The upper class members have their first actual practice in some of their training as they take charge of the new pilot students and get the new group settled. As the new group begins their nine weeks’ course, the upper class moves into the final phase of their training before graduating to the Primary School.
The Pre-Flight Navigator is sent from the Classification Center to one of several Navigator Pre-Flight Training Schools, where he undergoes nine weeks of training which is basically the same as the pre-flight pilot. There the work is divided into the same three categories with their academic work placing more stress on mathematics. Their other studies include Morse code, air forces, flags of all nations, ground forces, physics, naval forces, meteorology, photography, maps and charts, communication, procedure, cryptography, and target identification.
They are also taught military discipline and the proper ways of safeguarding military information. They spend five hours each day in these classes with new clases [sic] coming in every three weeks. Their military training consists of 45 minutes each day spent in close order drill and inspections each Saturday. During the nine weeks course the men are also given some training in chemical warfare and the use of gas masks and how to recognise the various types of gases.
The ultimate aim of the Navigator School is to give officer training and to give work valuable to them as aircraft observers and to give work
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At the piano in the cadet recreation building.
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Grand march under sabre arch at Cadet Ball.
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which is prerequisite to the advanced schools. The Navigation School works in conjunction with the advanced schools and at the end of each nine weeks a new class is ready to begin the advanced work.
The Pre-Flight bombardier is sent from the Classification Center to one of the many bombardier schools where he also is subjected to the nine weeks of basic pre-flight training. His academic training lays particular stress upon work in bombardment aviation and particular training in observation from the plane. Other courses are practically the same as those required for a pre-flight navigator.
Throughout the first each “half hour” at the Classification Center and the nine weeks of pre-flight training, the would-be pilot, navigator and bombardier, all have one thought uppermost … to do their best and to get one step further along the road that leads to … WINGS.
PREFLIGHT
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PHYSICAL TRAINING WITH WANDS
Cadets entering the huge mess hall for dinner.
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The PRIMARIES
Seasoned and well-drilled, with a fair idea of what military life is about, pilot trainees arrive at one of the Army Air Forces Training Center’s elementary flying schools.
These schools are civil airports under contract to the Air Forces. They have lost their indolent look of Sunday afternoon. The leisure is gone out of them. No groups of civilian pilots
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loll around in leather jackets. No variety of civilian ships hang around in the afternoon sunlight. The ships are now all blue and yellow trainers – or PT’S. They go up one after another in steady drone. Their motors make a business-like, determined cadence in the air. The atmosphere is calmly serious, for here at elementary school is where the cadet must prove whether or not he has the “stuff” to become a military pilot.
His instructor is a civilian. Before the elementary period is up, this instructor must be able to say to his student:
“You have the inherent ability to fly. You have proved it by soloing within from eight to 12 hours. You have taken your ship up and brought it down countless after countless times. You have done infinitely more than this. You have gone up alone and done acrobatics. You have fought back your uneasiness and done loops and snap rolls. You have put your ship in a bad spin and have brought it out … which, as I say, proves nothing at all except – you are ready to go to Basic School … and luck go with you.”
That is all a cadet can hope to get from elementary school, a solid foundation in flying and a boost into a more difficult curriculum. A considerable number of all who enter elementary school never realize this hope, since they “wash out” for lack of “inherent flying ability.”
Thousands, however, do make the grade. From the Primaries every nine weeks pour a new crop of cadets, men assured of only one thing – that they can fly a PT, understand its simple movements, and comprehend its rudimentary instrument board.
They take with them to Air Corps Basic School this experience – and hope.
LEARNING TO FLY PT’S
Flying blithely through the air may be the dream of many a future pilot when he arrives at a primary training school, but the actual art of successful piloting is no fantasy. The cadet finds that it’s a combination of hard work, intense concentration, a fear of the “washing machine” and an intangible something that he either has or he hasn’t.
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Last-minute instruction.
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Top: Along the obstacle course
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Ready for the first ride.
He arrives at a primary school and after being quartered and fed, reports early one morning at the flight line for his first ride. With four or five other cadets comprising his group, he is assigned to an instructor. First he has to learn how to don a parachute, which is an art in itself. He then climbs into the rear cockpit and sits down to look it over. A “stick”, two rudder bars, a throttle, an altimeter and tachometer are the chief instruments he must learn to use in governing the flight of his ship.
First he hooks on his gosports, which are rubber tubes through which his instructor can talk; and much to the consternation of many a “dodo”, he learns there is no way to talk back. Ready to go, he “shoves the coal” to his “crate” and taxis in S curves, for better visibility, out to the runway.
All clear, the cadet, with a slight sinking sensation, inches the throttle forward as the ship gathers speed, gradually applies forward pressure to the stick. Then, just at the right time, he hauls back on the control and pulls the nose up into a long, shallow climb.
“Not so steep … take it easy … Do you want to stall this crate?” the instructor barks in his ears.
A fleeting glance downward causes the cadet to gulp a couple of times to keep his heart down. The ground drops swiftly away. He circles the field to gain altitude, all the time being careful to conform to the local traffic pattern.
At last he reaches the altitude for straight and level flight.
“Left wing too low – Pull ‘er nose up – Watch that tachometer, she’s revving too high – Ease back on the throttle – Hold a little right rudder,” the instructor cautions.
Correction after correction burns up the gosports as the instructor’s monologue becomes a steady drumming in the ears of the chagrined cadet.
As days go by, the cadet learns the “feel” of the plane, becomes dexterous at the more simple maneuvers of flight and recognizes the various plane altitudes and their relations to maintaining his course. He is now ready for that glorious experience when, for the first time, with hight spirits and sinking heart, he takes off, flies and lands, without the comforting companionship of his instructor. He solos.
After the “solo” he becomes familiar with various acrobatic maneuvers. Slow-rolls, snap-rolls, loops, spins, chandelles and lazy eights are part of the concentrated training program.
Then suddenly after weeks of primary training, he gazes upon a new world. A world he dared not even dream of heretofore – the world of Basic Flying School.
He is no longer a “dodo”. He rapidly is developing into an Army Air Forces pilot. If he ever had a sinking sensation upon looking at an airplane he probably has lost it by now, and when anyone asks him if he can fly, he can answer “yes, sir” in a low, reserved tone – but with one eye cocked toward days to come.
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BASIC TRAINING
Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sun:
Those first line of “The Air Corps Song” provide the setting for this photomontage of men and planes. Dominated by that sleek, stub-nosed master of the skies, the advanced trainer at the left, the picture shows (bottom to top) the Corps of Cadets on the march, with the Stars and Stripes of America flying beside the British Union Jack, and the U.S. cadet and the R.A.F. standards billowing next to them. Directly overhead is a scene on the flying line, and above that are the “Three Musketeers” of the air – the combat team of pilot, bombardier and navigator. Surmounting all is an echelon of warbirds, ready to loose their thunder on any enemy who dares to confront them.
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Life IN BASIC TRAINING
Stepping on to the whirligig of basic school, the cadet’s first warm glow of enthusiasm soon changes to puzzled bewilderment. The very speed with which he is carried both in his new ship in the air and in the classroom on the ground reminds him of an old phrase he heard quite often in the first week of training: “Wipe that smile off your face, Mister.”
In addition to more difficult flying technique, he steps into even harder military routine, and to the casual observer his thrust-out chest is likely to appear as the only visible part of his anatomy. His memory, constantly being polished up on matters of military discipline, begins to shine like the wings he strives for.
The weight of the world is on his shoulders when after four or five hours instruction comes the day when he must take his heavier and faster ship up for “solo”. It is only after this accomplishment that he begins to warm up once more to the possibility that he may still have the makings of the world’s hottest pilot. By the day of his second solo he is getting downright eager.
But always present, outstriding by just one step his rising enthusiasm, are the upperclassmen to keep his “eagerness” at half throttle. Once he is allowed to sit on the “little red stool” or to count himself a member of the “Eager Squadron,” he may be convinced that no one is perfect – not even himself – that all is not perfect, and that maybe his even a “gross” cadet.
WARM HAND OF WELCOME FOR UNCLE SAM’S ENEMIES. Etched again sky, traditional Army .45’s are aimed by Army Air Cadets. The revolvers may be no match for dive bombers but they are mighty handy in hand-to-hand fighting on the ground.
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Instructor’s favorite method of demonstrating plane altitudes is with his hands. Below: An instructor explains a formation maneuver while cadets “follow through.”
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At basic he makes his first sundown trek to the flight line, and, after many anxious moments, and by the light of the moon (if he is lucky) he shoves his plane up toward the constellations and realizes he
is making his first night flight.
After that comes instrument training, and more night flights, and cross-country flying and more night flights, the use of the radio, and still more night flights.
By this time also, he has learned that there is such a thing as “flaps,” and has learned how to use them. With his hair standing on end he perceives there are times to use flaps and times not to use flaps.
Finally, comes that day when he happily watches the upperclassmen move on to Advanced Training. A self-satisfied smile spreads across his face, for now HE is an upperclassman.
Immediately, he turns to the new arrival from Primary and barks, “Brace there, Mister … Where did you get so gross? What country club did you come from?”
There is little time to “lord it.” His time now is taken up sunk in navigation problems to prepare him for cross-country flights. He is quite busy getting a firm hand on his tricky BT.
Basic seems to become very “gross” toward the end. The cadet becomes conscious of a new world, the last to be thoroughly toured before he gets his commission to the world known as Advanced Flying School.
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NIGHT FLIGHT
ADVANCED TRAINING
“Where the pig iron is taken and molded into the finished product.” The third and last phase in an aviation cadet’s training is at Advanced, and it is here that the polish is applied and the kinks taken out before sending him out as an officer. For the first time, the cadet is considered a pilot – and the instructor, his flight commander. He learns to carry the responsibility which will soon be his – to know that in his hands are the lives of others as well as his own.
Having completed Primary and Basic training, the boys decide they’re pilots and that this Advanced “stuff” isn’t going to get them. No Sir! After handling those basic trainers, the AT’s are going to be easy. All goes well – the cadets report in. No hazing from the upperclass – in fact, no trouble at all as long as they remain “eager.”
The first ten hours of flying at Advanced is devoted to transition. During this time the cadet learns to handle the faster and heavier ship with its additional equipment, such as retractable landing gear, hydraulic flaps, and constant speed prop. These are the days of worry, for what cadet wants five stars? However, the time goes quickly, and the cadets say “Goodbye” to the time when they could take up a plane by themselves and fly as they desired, for formation flying walks in the door and remains. Instrument flying is an important part of the training, part of it on the ground in the “Jeep”
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Left. Top: THE OLD PUSH-UP is a standard “man killer” in the Training Centers, but cadets, becoming tougher and tougher, refused to be tired, come back for more.
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(Link Trainer) which handles just like the real airplane. In these are taught the procedures which are later practiced in the air on team rides under the hood. Altitude flights are made to accustom cadets to the use of oxygen and the reactions of the plane in the lighter atmosphere. One of the most thrilling of all the cadet missions is the first night cross-country trip. Having flown “night local” at Basic, night flying itself is not so unusual, but to follow the light lines to another city means a new step in training. Flying takes but half of the day – the remainder is spent in the classroom, at athletics, or drilling.
Then for ten days, the class has a break in their advanced training – ten days of gunnery practice at another school. Here cadets practice at ground and aerial gunnery. With machine guns mounted on the trainers, each man shoots several hundred rounds every day.
Yes, at any advanced flying school is taught the necessary subjects which any Army Air Forces pilot must know, to prepare him for service in the field as an officer.
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Ground crew off duty, but still “talking shop.”
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Top Row, Left: Gentlemen with swords once settled their quarrels at dawn. But these gentlemen, aviation cadets in the Training Center, work out with foils in order to develop cat-like quickness and dexterity which will be valuable to them in settling scores in air combat. Center: After a long flight.
Right: Cross country preparation.
Middle Row, Left: Back to the barracks after a hard day’s work in the air. Center: British cadets fold Old Glory at Retreat. Right: Advanced navigation trainer.
Bottom Row, Left: A sextet of aviation cadets in the air as they are determinedly making a broadjump on the obstacle course used in the physical training program. When the full story of this war is written, there will be a special chapter devoted to the hours of scientific study, the subsequent hours of manpower, prespiration [sic] and drudgery now being expended to toughen our combat fliers for the fight. Men were not made to fly at rarefied altitudes of 30,000 feet, nor were they built to be wrenched in the air at speeds of 500 miles an hour. But our enemies are doing it. We must. And the rugged physical conditioning program in the Southeast Training Center is the successful answer to how we can. The keystone in the training program is the development of those muscles and nerves most used in combat flying. Center: Sky Bound. Right: Advanced Trainers.
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Left: Like a man from Mars with a “death ray generator” in his hands, this Army Air Force photographer draws a bead as squadrons of planes roar across the cloud banks of the Southland. Anywhere he may point his finder he will catch the growing flights of aviation cadets doing precision formation flying.
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BOMBARDIER TRAINING
The whole striking power of the Air Forces, insofar as destructive power is concerned, is carried at the tips of the Bombardier’s fingers. Isolated and alone in the glassed-in “greenhouse” right in the very nose of the power bomber, it is his duty to direct his plane to the proper point above his target and release his bombs with such split-second timing as to insure their finding their mark.
For much of the plane’s flight the bombardier is merely a passenger, but as the plane nears its objective it is in his hands, and his alone, that the success of the mission rests.
Aided by the finest instruments for precision bombing owned by any nation in the world, the bombardier must make allowances for such things as plane speed, height, air temperature, weight of the bombs, wind and cross drifts and other factors.
He sets these facts into his bombsight, which is in essence a calculating machine, and at the right moment releases his bombs.
Before he reaches that target, however, the bombardier spends twelve crowded weeks learning the fundamentals and the fine points of his destructive trade. The bombardier is selected for his task at the Classification Section of the Air Forces. He is selected because
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BOMBARDIERS
he has shown marked ability at manual dexterity so that he can twist knobs without fumbling, muscle control so that his adjustments are always precise, serial reaction so that he can apply data in orderly sequence, and a calm temperament so he won’t get rattled easily.
Once he has been selected for his rigorous task the embryo bombardier is sent to one of the large bombardier schools, where he is first introduced into the theory of bombing. He attends classes and discovers the intricasies of what makes bombs fall as they do. He learns the composition of bombs, their various reactions to different conditions and situations. Above all, he spends many hours practicing on the bomb trainer, a platform some 12 feet above the ground which stimulates actual bombing conditions.
Over and over again he works out the various problems that are connected with his intricate art, learning to turn dials, straining his eyes, learning to coordinate mind and body so that his movements will be swift, sure and above all, accurate. As time goes on he finds that he is acquiring the sure timing and accurate adjustment necessary to make of him a finished bombardier.
He learns in classrooms about such things as probable error, the reason behind pattern bombing, learns how to calculate wind drift and other such problems.
As he grows more proficient he works out advanced problems involving all these factors on his training platform, so that by the time he is ready to take to the air for his practice trips he has a clear idea of just what problems he will face and what his responsibility is.
When the time comes for him to make his practice bombings he is carried in a modern fast bomber. He bombs at day and he bombs at night. He lives and thinks bombing. The practice bombs are loaded with black powder instead of high explosive and when these detonate the bombardier can see just how far he missed his target. He gets practice bombing from all angles and under all kinds of conditions. He learns to bomb from his altitude when his bombs are released three miles before he reaches his objective, and he learns to bomb from low altitudes when his bombs crash right on top of his objective.
He is schooled in the use of the Norden and Sperry bombsights, our most vital military secret.
At the end of nine weeks he makes his “record runs,” the final examination for a bombardier which determines whether he is a first, second or third class bombardier. If he graduates as a first class bombardier his position will probably be in the nose of the leading plane in his flight so that he can help the following bombardiers in the proper releasing of their bombs.
During his last three weeks of training the bombardier is in the air almost constantly, bombing on the practice range under all types of combat conditions. He learns how to release his bombs at very low altitudes when he can’t use his sight, but must rely on his own sight and judgment; he also learns to bomb from so high that he has to use oxygen to enable him to breathe. He learns how to check his
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Bombardier training.
Instructor at the blackboard explaining diagram illustrating the fall of the bomb as aviation cadets look on.
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Where to this trip? The cadets check the mission schedule to get their destination and “target” for the flight.
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data and release his bombs within 20 seconds of sighting his objective. He learns how to loose his bombs either in a string, which is one at a time, or in a salvo, which is all together.
At the end of his 12 weeks he is graduated and gains his coveted wings. From that time on he is a finished bombardier. He may be used to train other bombardiers or he may be assigned to a combat squadron anywhere on the face of the earth where the far-flung armies of the nation are in combat.
Like the pilot and the navigator, the bombardier is a highly specialized man. He is trained to function as an integral part of the bomber crew, and he knows that he was picked for his task, just as the pilot and the navigator, because of special skills which have been further developed by the course of training which he has undergone.
From bombardier cadets, eager to go “upstairs” for one of their regular training flights at an advanced flying school, check out their flying “tack” at Supply Headquarters.
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Planning the “Pay Load.” Tools of the cadet bombardier’s important trade are these 100-pound training bombs, ready to be loaded into the giant belly hatch of a B-18 bomber.
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NAVIGATION
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Hundreds of two-engined training ships like this whisk students aloft on 1,000-mile missions. Ships carry a crew of five, the pilot, navigation instructor, and three students.
They call him the Little Tin Guy.
His nerves seem all metal, his mind works like a compass, and his job is to get our bombers there and get ‘em back, over land, over water, through weather and rain and hail and fog – through anything!
He is better known as the navigator and he is being trained at specialized schools.
The Little Tin Guy is being hammered out by the hundreds, and he will be hammered out by the thousands. He was present to smash the Jap fleet at Midway, and he carried the fire to Tokyo with General Doolittle. If he had not been along with his octant, his dividers and compasses, his maps and charts and unpronounceable gadgets, there would have been no victory at Midway, no fires at Tokyo.
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HITS OR MISSES? Whether our bombers, hurtling across thousands of miles of ocean waste like this, smash targets or miss objectives completely, depends largely on the navigator, dubbed “The Little Tin Guy.” Above, a training ship from one of the Navigation Schools flies a plotted course over the Atlantic. Below, left, a student navigator keeps on course by shooting the sun through the blister in the ship’s top. After graduation, young navigators with motto, “Get ‘em there – Get ‘em back!” can take bombers anywhere – Tokyo not excluded.
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Below, right, in the back seat, another navigation cadet navigates the same course by pilotage, or by checking points on his map with corresponding points on the ground. The river he sees coiled below is a well-known landmark.
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WITH MAPS NEATLY ROLLED and instruments in their cases, young navigator march to the flying line and board ships assigned to them.
Without the navigator, bombers would be freight loads of destruction rushing at terrific speed through tractless space, but rushing without purpose, without hesitation.
The navigator CAN get ‘em there. He CAN get ‘em back. This is why: He doesn’t just happen to be a good navigator. He is made a good navigator.
Appointed an aviation cadet, he goes to a classification center. By mental examinations and weighted psychological tests it is determined whether he is by nature best qualified to be a navigator, bombardier, or pilot.
To be classified as navigator he must be a steady-nerved, cool-headed individual capable of making lightning decisions. He must have plenty of grey matter between the ears for he must master the equivalent of a full college course in a short time. He cannot be merely the bookworm-type intellectual. He must have the brawn and the wind to move around in a plane at high altitudes, forsaking his oxygen. He must be able to work complicated problems at dizzy heights where the average man cannot add three and six.
Classified “navigator,” he is put through weeks of elementary training and then sent to a navigation school for the real thing.
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Cadets sit one behind the other at desks in the belly of the ship. Here students have several minutes to figure their course while the pilot circles the field.
With E68 computer, called “The Navigator’s Wife,” because, cadets say, “It does everything in an airplane but cook,” a cadet estimates time of arrival to the next familiar landmark … Meanwhile another cadet, who must figure entirely by instruments, looks through driftmeter to see if wind is knocking the ship off course … To be triple sure of the airplane’s location, the pilot puts the ship on “automatic pilot” and lets it fly itself while he studies his map. If student gets off course, he will not correct him, but will keep his own bearings and tell student his mistake later … OXYGEN MASKS are worn by all crew members above altitudes of 10,000 feet. The Navigator must be in top physical condition, for in combat missions he must forsake oxygen and move around the ship to use his octant. In actual combat he mans a machine gun.
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BEFORE A FLIGHT cadet navigators at one of the fields training navigators crowd the ready room with maps and charts which will guide each man on a different mission.
This school hands him an intensive, practical course. He gets a course in the Navi-trainer, a machine which simulates all conditions of air navigation. He goes to ground class for eight hours a day, and for three hours at night. He is awakened in the dead of night and routed out to study the stars. He learns the theory of celestial, radio, pilotage and dead reckoning navigation.
Then his classroom goes to the sky. He flies in the two-motored AT-7. The ship carried three students, one instructor, and a pilot. The students sit at three desks one behind the other in the belly of the ship.
Usually the student in the front sea works his problem by instruments. He is not allowed to look at the ground. (The ground may not be visible to help on combat missions). The other two students do pilotage or follow the course on the map by recognizing corresponding objects on the terrain.
The new navigator spends 100 hours in the air. The courses he charts take him over several states. He directs the ship through day and through night on four-hour missions, on eight-hour missions. He mustn’t go to sleep. He mustn’t blink an eye.
“Zero Zero” is the navigator’s ultimate objective. Zero Zero in navigation means perfection. It means navigating through hundreds or thousands of miles of space, cloud rack, wind and weather and hitting a dime-size objective “on the nose” at the precise second you predicted you would hit it on the nose. One inch off is not Zero Zero. One second early or late is not Zero Zero. Zero Zero means right on the button, right on time!
It is not easy. New navigators say, “If you got there Zero Zero the driftmeter plays “The Star Spangled Banner” and hands you a cigar!”
But at the end of the course they do get there Zero Zero, and they get their Wings.
Then to units for further tactical training where they work for a while as members of a fighting team before they go to combat or to a ferry command.
The navigator’s first assignment may be to navigate a quarter-million-dollar Flying Fortress and its seven-man crew from Florida to a pin-dot airbase, surrounded by enemy-held territory-overseas. The ship is his personal responsibility. If he misses, too bad. But he doesn’t miss.
The best and most independent old pilots warm up to their navigators in direct proportion to the distance they have to fly. Flying in this war is almost all long-distance flying. The emphasis is on the navigator. The emphasis is on the Little Tin Guy!
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SOUTHEAST ARMY AIR FORCES TRAINING CENTER
MAXWELL FIELD, ALABAMA
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HEADQUARTERES
SOUTHEAST ARMY AIR FORCES TRAINING CENTER
Maxwell Field
Montgomery, Alabama
July 3, 1942
To All Members of this Command:
Since its inception on July 13, 1940, the Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center has developed from a mere directive on paper and a total of five officers, to its present strength of thousands of officers, cadets, and enlisted men stationed throughout sixteen states. It has been a tremendous job, and only the loyalty and unsparing efforts of the entire command have made possible this progress.
In the coming days and months the obstacles will be no less and our output must be greater.
To all those who have labored so well in making the Training Center a vital link in the Army Air Forces, I want to express my personal appreciation for a job well done. I have the utmost confidence in your ability to meet the increasing responsibilities of the future.
To the thousands of cadets who have received their training here, and to the thousands still to come, - we dedicate our efforts.
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W.W. WELSH,
Colonel, Army Air Forces,
Commanding.
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WILLIAM W. WELSH
COLONEL, AIR CORPS
Commanding Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center
Colonel Welsh was born in Denver, Colo., September 16, 1893. Enlisting in the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps, May, 1917, at Omaha, Neb.; called to active duty December 20, 1917, reporting to the School of Military Aeronautics, Austin, Tex., for ground school training. Assigned to the Cadet Concentration Camp, Fort Dick, Dallas, Tex., later to the flying school at Park Field, Millington, Tenn. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant, aviation section, Signal Corps, May 28, 1918.
Transferred to Payne Field, Miss., serving as instructor until October, 1918, then transferred to the Aviation Concentration Depot for overseas service. The Armistice was signed prior to his departure, however, and he was sent to Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, Fla.
Saw service at March Field, Calif., Brooks Field, San Antonio, Tex., France Field, Panama Canal Zone and Kelly Field, Texas; 1931-36 stationed at Louisville, Ky., as Commanding Officer of Bowman Field and on detached service with the Organized Reserves.
In August, 1936, attended the Air Forces Tactical School, graduating in 1937. Since then he has been on duty continuously at Maxwell Field, serving first with the Tactical School until it was rendered inactive in 1940, and then with the Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center.
He holds ratings of command pilot and combat observer.
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GENERAL STAFF
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JOHN G. WILLIAMS
Colonel, General Staff Corps
Chief of Staff
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ALBERT M. WOODY
Lieutenant Colonel, Air Corps
Executive Officer
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A.L. PRICHARD
Lieutenant Colonel, General Staff Corps
A-1
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AMZI G. BARBER
Lieutenant Colonel, General Staff Corps
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JOHN F. McBLAIN
Colonel, General Staff Corps
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LEDCREICH STUART VANCE
Lieutenant Colonel, General Staff Corps
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“The Best Training in the World” sounds like a big statement – and it is – but that’s what America’s young men get when they are accepted by the Army Air Forces for training as pilots, bombardiers and navigators. The above chart, prepared by the Southeast AAF Training Center, shows the progressive stages of training Army aviation cadets undergo from the time they pass the physical and mental examinations at a local board or Army Post, until they emerge as Second Lieutenants or with the newly created grade of Flight Officer. (Both ranks carry the same pay, and Flight Officers may later be commissioned as Second Lieutenants). Upon graduation from the last stage of Training Center preparation, the young officers are assigned to a Combat Unit and are ready to meet the enemy. And because of their exceptional training, they will meet him on better than even terms in knowledge and ability. That means greater safety for themselves – and bad news for their opponents!
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School Squadron Building
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Maxwell Field Post Headquarters.
VIEWS ….
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Left to Right:
Commanding Officer’s Quarters.
Non-Commissioned Officers’ Quarters.
Bachelor Officers’ Quarters.
Maxwell Field Officers’ Club Lounge.
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“PX” CAFETERIA, FOR ENLISTED MEN AND CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES
…. AROUND MAXWELL FIELD
Today, three Army Air Forces Training Centers, each operating as a separate unit, but all constituting one great United States Army Flying Academy, are working day and night to attain the goal of producing the necessary pilots, navigators, bombardiers to blast the Axis forces off the ground and out of the skies. They are the Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center, with headquarters at Maxwell Field, Ala.; the Gulf Coast Army Air Forces Training Center, with headquarters at Randolph Field, Texas, and the West Coast Army Air Forces Training Center, with headquarters at Santa Anna, Calif.
The Southeast Training Center is typical of all three, and more than either of the other two, it started from scratch.
On November 16, 1940, the Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center launched its aviation cadet program. Major General Walter R. Weaver was put in command of the Center and at that time it consisted of nothing more than its present headquarters at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala.
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To the Right, Top: Austin Hall, Headquarters of the Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center, Maxwell Field, Alabama. Bottom: Office of the Commanding Officer, Headquarters, Southeast AAF Training Center.
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Today scores of air schools are operating in the Training Center. Many others are soon to be activated. Webbed as a single unit around their command headquarters at Maxwell Field, they dot the land from the State of Wisconsin to the tip of Florida, extending as far west as North Dakota. In fact, the Southeast Training Center has long since outgrown its name. Here in this part of the United States, lies the greatest air training center in the world today. The sky is literally the limit for the facts and figures of the expanding program and for the number of men fast undergoing the transition from shaky-winged fledglings to dependable Army flyers.
As though this were not job enough, the Center swung open its doors in June, 1941, to British aviation cadets, who after completion of their training returned home for duty with the RAF. The total number of British students graduated from the schools in the Center is a military secret, but the total figure runs into the thousands.
And in May, 1942, a large contingent of sun-tanned Dutchmen from the East Indies arrived in this country for training in the Southeast Training Center.
Call it discipline, organization, mass production, or what you will … The Southeast Training Center is producing a large share of the nation’s pilots, navigators, bombardiers. A new class of aviation cadets enters the training center every five weeks. From all over the country, from many different vocations, climates and ways of life, they come to sign up with the Air Forces. They have three things in common: a minimum amount of luggage, a yen to fly, and a desire to come to grips with the enemy.
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Above. Top to Bottom: Mess Call. Cadet Mess Hall. Post Exchange, Maxwell Field. Post Library.
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COCHRAN FIELD
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CONTROL TOWER
MACON , GEORGIA
1942
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HEADQUARTERS
ARMY AIR FORCES BASIC FLYING SCHOOL DDF/w
COCHRAN FIELD, MACON, GA.
To the Men of Cochran Field,
I welcome this opportunity to greet each and every one of you. I have had the privilege of being with you men here and of working with you and for you. You and I have seen fertile land change from the production of farm crops to the production of fine men. Some of these men must leave, but some stay to help us. I am proud of you, your work, and our products. I am glad that you too are proud of our accomplishments.
My sincere best wishes to each and every one of you. Thank you for your loyalty, your hard work, and your high ideals. May the spirit of this command continue to be expressed by the words, “We can and we will.”
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D.D. FITZ GERALD
Colonel, Air Corps
Commanding.
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DONALD D. FITZ GERALD
Colonel
Commanding Cochran Field
Born in Washington, D.C., December 13, 1896. Graduated from Pennsylvania Military College with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1917. Completed Post Graduate course at Yale University in 1926 with a M.S. in Electrical Engineering.
Was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Field Artillery, June 1, 1918, and transferred to the Air Service as an Aerial Observer on August 28, 1918. Commissioned First Lieutenant, Air Service, July 1, 1920; Captain, Air Corps, January 1, 1934; Major (temporary) August 26, 1936; Major (permanent) July 1, 1940; Lieutenant Colonel (temporary) March 15, 1941; Colonel (temporary) January 20, 1942.
During his military career has been stationed at Saumur, France, in 1918, as Field Artilleryman; Tours and Chattil on Sur-Seine, France, in 1918, as a student observer; Treves and Coblenz, Germany, in 1918, with the Army of Occupation. Was at Mitchell Field, Kelly Field, and Fort Bliss in 1919; at Camp Knox, Fort Sill and March Field for pilot training in 1920, attended Signal School at Camp Vail in 1922-23; back to Kelly Field in 1923-25; McCook Field in 1926-28; Brooks Field, 1928-31; Hawaii, 1931-33; Rockwell Field, 1933-35; the Air Corps Tactical School, Maxwell Field, 1935-36; Bolling Field, 1936-39; Randolph Field, 1939-40; Gunter Field, 1940-41; Maxwell Field, January, 1941 – April 1941.
Colonel Fitz Gerald has been Commanding Officer of Cochran Field since its conception in April, 1941. His leadership of Cochran Field has been superb.
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STAFF
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RICHARD H. WISE
Lieutenant Colonel
Post Executive Officer
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WILHELM C. FREUDENTHAL
Lieutenant Colonel
Operations Officer
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JAMES W. CLARK
Captain
Adjutant
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OTTO E. KELLER
Captain
Intelligence Officer
SPECIAL STAFF
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JOHN F. GORMAN
Major
Special Services Officer
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RAYMOND V. MARLAN
Major
Quartermaster
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CHARLES E. WILSON
Major
Administrative Inspector
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CHARLES R. CROSS
Major
Provost Marshal
MAXWELL C. HARRINGTON
Captain
Ordnance Officer
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ALLEN D. SMITH
Captain
Surgeon
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MYRON R. BITTIKOFER
Captain
Engineer
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PERCY F. HERRING
Captain
Chaplain
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PATRICK D. HUFF
Captain
Signal Officer
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FRANK P. GALLO
Captain
Personnel Officer
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MORRIS J. DROBECK
Captain
Athletic and Theatre Officer
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EDWARD J. MACK
Captain
Finance Officer
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HOWARD L. DAVIS
Second Lieutenant
Communications Officer
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R.J. ERFLE
First Lieutenant
Transportation Officer
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WILLIAM E. WALK, JR.
First Lieutenant
Base Weather Officer
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OWEN W. SILVEY
First Lieutenant
Chemical Property Officer
SCHOOL STAFF
C. CONRAD PRATT
Major
Director of Training
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FRANK W. ISEMAN
Major
Commandant of Cadets
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JOHN M. WINGE
Captain
School Secretary
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ARTHUR L. HUFF
Captain
Director of Ground School
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HISTORY OF COCHRAN FIELD
A site containing about a thousand acres was purchased by the City of Macon, Georgia, in December, 1940. This land, located nine miles south of the City on the Hawkinsville Highway, was designated by the Federal Government in February, 1941, as the site for buildings for Flying School Number 1 and construction was started on March 15th.
Thus was Cochran Field begun. At that time the land was typical middle Georgia farm land and was covered by several sizeable peach and pecan orchards, some truck farms, numerous dwellings and a church.
The field which was at first known as Flying School Number 1, from its priority of construction, was later named for Robert J. Cochran, who was born in Camilla, Georgia. He died in action in France during the first World War while serving as a First Lieutenant with the Eighth Aero Squadron.
On April 15, 1941, five officers with seventy-five men arrived at Cochran Field in a truck convoy under the command of Captain R.H. Wise. They came from Gunter Field, Montgomery, Alabama, and reported to Lieutenant Colonel D.D. Fitz Gerald who had arrived from Maxwell Field on April 7th.
Many of the men were key non-commissioned officers. They were the nucleus around which the Basic Training School was formed. These members of the original detachment were assigned to quarters in tents while Lieutenant Colonel Fitz Gerald began his command from a make-shift desk.
On May 15th, the field was designated as a Basic Army Flying School. The first planes arrived from Gunter Field on May 23rd. Paving had already begun on the gigantic runways and was soon completed. These runways are equivalent to scores of miles of ordinary paved roadway.
Training of the first aviation cadets, who arrived on June 3rd, began June 4, 1941, three days ahead of regular schedule, and the first class was graduated August 13th, five days ahead of schedule. On August 18, 1941, the first class of British cadets arrived to begin their duties. Classes of both American and British cadets have been held continuously since that date.
Lieutenant Colonel Fitz Gerald was appointed to the rank of Colonel (temporary) on January 20, 1942, and Cochran Field under his guidance has emerged from a red, muddy orchard to become one of the finest training schools of the Air Forces. The station is continuously turning out officers and men who are fitted to carry on our battle to victory.
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COCHRAN FIELD
ACTIVITIES
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READY FOR ACTION
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CADETS TAKE TO THE AIR
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PLANE PARK
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Lieutenant James and Civil Service pilot just before take-off.
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Last minute instructions.
LOOKS LIKE A VICIOUS MONSTER READY TO SPRING
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Top: The take-off.
Above: P.T. trainer on the line.
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Top: A line of planes go into position for take-off.
Above: A squadron takes off.
A cadet has taken to the air.
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All set for a take off.
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Top: Drying parachute. Above: Sewing parachute.
Folding.
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Almost finished.
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LINE MAINTENANCE MAKES A 100-HOUR CHECK-UP
LINE MAINTENANCE
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Left: The men in the line maintenance section are thoroughly trained in the general construction principles, repair, adjustment, inspection and maintainment of the complete airplane, engine and affiliated equipment. On the shoulders of these men rests the responsibility of keeping the planes running smoothly. Although the modern plane is built to withstand much harsh punishment there is always a day of reckoning and that is where the line maintenance comes into its own.
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Top: Washing and checking a plane, part of the plane park is seen in the background. Above: The line maintenance gasses ‘em up.
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SCRUB-UP TIME
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25-HOUR INSPECTION
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100-HOUR CHECK
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COCHRAN FIELD BAND
Below. Top to Bottom: Dental clinic. Microscope work in Medical Detachment laboratory.
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Below. Top to Bottom: Headquarters Building. Post Chapel. Post Hospital.
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Top: Weather tower.
Above: Radio operator at receiving set.
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Top: Plotting “winds aloft” map in Weather Department.
Above: Routine in the Weather Department.
The Minds Behind the Men in the Air
Light gun in the control tower.
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Map study in Airways Section.
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Observing balloon by theodite.
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Studying the enlarger in the photographic department.
Below: Giving instructions from inside the control tower.
Bottom: Cadets check in with an M.P.
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Below: Crash truck.
Bottom: An M.P. issues a pass.
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ON THE MARCH
BELOW: CADETS FORMATION. BOTTOM: RECRUIT SQUADRON ON THE MARCH.
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Swimming and diving is a favorite off duty activity at Cochran Field.
FAMILIAR SCENES
Right: Officers’ Club. Right, Below: A chess game in the Recreation Hall. Below: Mess inspection.
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VIEWING THE 27TH SQUADRON
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Top Picture:
THE 27TH SQUADRON LINES UP
Center Picture:
GAS MASK DRILL
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A SERGEANT GIVES ORDERS TO TRUCK DRIVER.
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Personnel
COCHRAN FIELD
MACON , GEORGIA
1942
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[Photograph]
JOHN R. KNIGHT
Major
[Photograph]
JAMES W. LILLARD, JR.
Captain
[Photograph]
ROBERT MARTENS
Captain
[Photograph]
FREDERICK G. McNALLY
Captain
[Photograph]
JOHN MONACO, JR.
Captain
FLYING OFFICERS
[Photograph]
SAMUEL S. RIDDLE, JR.
Major
[Photograph]
FRANK A. SHARP
Captain
[Photograph]
WALTER A. SMITH, JR.
Captain
[Photograph]
DAVID B. TUDOR
Captain
[Photograph]
WENDELL M. VAN SICKLE
Captain
TRUMAN F. ANDERSON
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JAMES A. GIBSON
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
VINCENT A. BLACK
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
EDWIN H. BOYERS
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
COLIN F. BURCH, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
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[Photograph]
CHARLES A. CUTHBERT, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
WILLIAM W. EVANS, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
BERNARD J. FINAN, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
ALEX H. GAY
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
RAYMOND L. GEORGE
First Lieutenant
JOHN D. GORHAM, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
SAMUEL D. HALEY
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
DeALBERT S. HOKE, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
ROBERT B. HUTCHINSON
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
ROBERT R. JONES
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
WILLIAM P. KOCH
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
KENNETH M. LEGHORN
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JAMES A. MAGUIRE
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
RICHARD H. MAY
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
ROBERT E. MONROE
First Lieutenant
STANISLAW J. PODOLAK
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
DORSEY A. PULLIAM
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
AMOS L. SLUDER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HARRY W. SHOUP
Captain
[Photograph]
HARRY J. SHUFFLER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
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[Photograph]
HAROLD D. STANHOPE
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
L.V. TEETER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
PETER S. WALKER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
PHILIP G. WARNER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
GEORGE O. WHITE
First Lieutenant
WILEY S. TAYLOR
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
GEORGE BECHTEL
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HARRY K. BLAKE
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
WILLIAM J. CANTWELL
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOHN D. CARTER
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
HAROLD C. CHAPLIN
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
CHARLES E. CHAPMAN
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
BUFORD T. CLARK
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
WILLIAM F. CROWLEY
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOSEPH W. DAVIDSON
Second Lieutenant
ANDREW W. FULLER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
CALVIN H. GIBSON, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
LEON H. GOLINSKY
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
GORDON M. GRAHAM
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOHN E. GUINN
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
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[Photograph]
EDGAR W. HAGEMEIER
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MYRON A. HUSTON, JR.
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MARVIN E. JACOBS
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
RICHARD B. JEFFREY
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
RALPH F. JORGENSEN
First Lieutenant
LAWRENCE P. GIARRIZZO
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JACK F. KELLER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
CLIFFORD J. KRONAUER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
PAUL E. LEAS
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HAROLD O. LUNN
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
JOHN R. MARTIN
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
EUGENE K. MAXWELL
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HOLT A. MURRAY
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
RALPH PAPANI, JR.
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
EUGENE A. PERESICH, JR.
First Lieutenant
ROBERT G. PETRANEK
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
GEORGE F. ROBERTS
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
LOUIS J. DeSAUDRO
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOHN A. SHAW
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
CHARLES T. SHEAN, II
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
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[Photograph]
WILBUR R. SHEIBLE
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HOWARD G.SHIDAL
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
WILBERT D. SHOCKLEY
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HOWARD W. SIMCOX
First Lieutenant
EARLE M. SMITH
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
RALPH L. THOMAS
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
ROBERT E. TRIMBLE
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
GORDON S. TURNER
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
CLYDE R. VAN HORN
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
GORDON O. VARNEAU
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MARK H. VINZANT
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
EDGAR S. WARDELL
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
GEORGE G. WHITE
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HIRIAM H. WHITE, JR.
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
DAVID B. WHITLOCK
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HOLLIE L. WHITTEMORE, JR.
Second Lieutenant
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GROUND AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
[Photograph]
CHARLES N. BEHRENS
Major
[Photograph]
ELLIS A. MANSHIP
Major
[Photograph]
JOHN H. BARTON
Captain
ANTHONY V. BENINCASA
Captain
[Photograph]
J.E. BROKAW
Captain
[Photograph]
DONALD R. FERRIS
Captain
[Photograph]
ALBERT S. GUERRINA
Captain
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
GEORGE O. HANFORD
Captain
[Photograph]
ROBERT C. INGRAM
Captain
[Photograph]
CLAUDE H. IRBY
Captain
[Photograph]
H. STEWART JOHNSTON
Captain
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[Photograph]
ALFRED M. MARTIN
Captain
[Photograph]
MICHAEL R. ZITO
Captain
[Photograph]
HERMAN SCHRAMM
Captain
[Photograph]
J. WILLIAM WELLS
Captain
[Photograph]
LAWRENCE A. CLANCY
First Lieutenant
FRANK S. COHEN
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
CYRIL R. CULP
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
ABE L. FEUER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
HARVEY J. GRAY
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOHN T. HIGGINS
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
PALEAMON L. HILSMAN
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
J.J. MALONE
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOSEPH I. MATHIS
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
LEONARD J. MILLER
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
GERALD E. MILLER
First Lieutenant
RONALD D. MILLER
Captain
[Photograph]
CLYDE R. MOSES
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
EDWARD B. RANDALL
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
FRANK A. SHARP
Captain
[Photograph]
JOHN O. SHOLAR
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
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[Photograph]
JOHN J. SQUADRITO
Captain
[Photograph]
FRED S. SWAFFIELD, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JAMES T. THOMAS, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
ALFRED P. VALENTINE
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
WILLIAM D. WARRICK
First Lieutenant
ALBERT S. WHITFIELD, JR.
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
FREDERICK H. WILLCOX
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MALCOLM C. ALFRIEND
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
ROBERT W. BAILEY
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOHN N. BEASLEY
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
GEORGE G. EMBICK
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
OSBORN B. HEYWARD
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
EARL D. JAMES
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
SYRUS H. JOHNSON
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOHN M. LEEPER
Second Lieutenant
ATHOL D. LIVELY
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOSEPH J. O’HANLON, JR.
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
JOHN J. O’MARA
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
PHILLIP F. STARKMAN
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MILTON WAYNE
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
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[Photograph]
JAMES L. PATTERSON
Captain
[Photograph]
DONALD M. WRIGHT
Captain
[Photograph]
ROBERT T. HALL
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
FRED H. KUHLMAN
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
FRANK W. GARWACKI
First Lieutenant
COCHRAN FIELD NURSES
ROSA LEE FAGGART
First Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MARGARET R. BUCKO
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MARGARET E. DANIEL
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MARGARET HEATH
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
VIRGINIA G. JOHNSTON
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
THERESA A. MEDLIN
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
MIRIAM R. PIERCE
Second Lieutenant
[Photograph]
BERTIE MAE RHODES
Second Lieutenant
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[Photograph]
JAMES L. KEITH
Flight Lieutenant
[Photograph]
CHARLES P. ALLEN
[Photograph]
CYRIL D. BEST
[Photograph]
MAURICE K. CHICK
BRITISH PILOT OFFICERS
ALSTAIR A. CROSSE
[Photograph]
C.S. DILLIMORE
[Photograph]
D. GIFTKINS
[Photograph]
LEONARD J. KENT
[Photograph]
RALPH KIRKER
[Photograph]
[Photograph]
CYRIL G.F. PARSONS
[Photograph]
DENNIS H. PAYNE
[Photograph]
GEORGE A. RICHARDS
[Photograph]
FRANCIS W. SAVAGE
[Photograph]
GEOFFREY TASKER
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AVIATION CADETS
UPPER CLASS (AMERICANS)
[Photograph]
FRANK W. ISEMAN
Major
Commandant of Cadets
[1 row of 4 photographs]
Cadets Adams, Stephen Shepherd; Banks, John Wilbur; Benson, Bertil Emil William; Brooks, Dudley Wilder.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Brusek, Frank Anthony; Carroll, James Leo, Jr.; Casey, James Francis; Cook, Coleman Bertram, Jr.; Corrie, Wirt Haley; Dobkowski, Joseph Thaddeus; Gianforte, Joseph Charles.
Second Row: Cadets Harvey, Elliot Bishop; Herrmann, Robert Henry; Hoelzer, Kenneth William; Hogue, Lucius Matlock; Holstein, Elmer Merriman; Hungerpiller, James Arthur, Jr.; Kelley, William Arlington.
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AVIATION CADETS
UPPER CLASS (AMERICANS)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Kernodle, Harold Lee; King, Joseph Hoffman; Kubasak, Emil Steve; McAdams, William Benton; McLaughlin, James Joseph; Millett, Clyde Lawrence; Morris, James Cleveland.
Second Row: Cadets Muir, Donald Watson; Netzer, John Joseph, Jr.; Newman, Riley Rape; Olfston, Junior Walter; Parker, Gerald Arthur; Peterson, Cletus William; Reeder, Owen.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Ridemour, John Western; Rock, James Francis; Root, Francis Henry; Rowe, Scott Rumnels; Simmonds, Harold Maurer; Smith, Frederick Noah, Jr.; Smith, Harry Franklin, Jr.
Second Row: Cadets Smith, Kenneth Barton; Smith, Kirby Enos; Smith, Robert David; Sykes, William Joseph; Wallace, Joseph Wilkins, Jr.; Williams, Thomas Albert; Woodroofe, Philip Benson.
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AVIATION CADETS
LOWER CLASS (AMERICANS)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Allison, George Frederick; Arnspiger, Varney Clyde, Jr.; Austin, Daniel Vincent; Barnett, Clarence Vernon; Barry, Gerald Hayes; Battalore, John Russell; Beake, William Gunther.
Second Row: Cadets Belenky, Eli Larry; Bolton, Louis Saul; Bond, Willis Franklin; Bruther, John Richard; Caldwell, Carlos Freeman; Carter, John Tredway; Caseley, Raymond Perrie.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Clodfelter, Thomas Clarence; Cohalan, Eugene Conway; Commins, Louis Shelly; Corwin, Joseph Bower; Cromer, Harold Nicholas; Cymbalak, Michael; Davis, George Porter.
Second Row: Cadets Donovan, Neil Charles; Duesing, Louis James; Durbin, Robert Frederic; Egan, James Martin; Ericson, Allan Oscar; Evans, Robert Jay; Farley, Robert Henry.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Fellows, John Baptiste; Ferriss, Lester Ruthven, Jr.; Fowle, John Allen; Frey, Ernest Albin; Gage, John Oliver; Gerber, Frank Andrew, Jr.; Gordon, Allan Thomas Jr.
Second Row: Cadets Gramzinski, Arthur William; Grandy, Howard Leon; Gruden, Peter William, Jr.; Hackett, Earl Thomas; Harrold, James Franklin; Haverlin, Jack Flehro; Hensley, Clarence Everette.
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AVIATION CADETS
LOWER CLASS (AMERICANS)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Hill, LeRoy Carlile, Jr.; Hodgen, Robert Johnston; Hodowski, Leo Maxmilian; Jones, William Thomas; Knowlton, Kenneth Stebbins; Kuch, Theodore Horner, Jr.; Levy, Robert Maurice.
Second Row: Cadets McFadden, Kenneth Laurie; McNeill, Herbert Warren; Metz, Charles Frederick, Jr.; Michael, Florence Sherwood, Jr.; Mitchell, John Thomas, Jr.; Moore, Robert Lee; Myers, Max.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Ohl, Charles Owen; Parke, William Neel; Paton, George; Pollingue, Alvin Michael; Pultz, Frank Howard; Revoir, Kenneth Joseph; Richman, Mac.
Second Row: Cadets Roman, Julio Enrique; Schley, John Dearing, Jr.; Shankle, Willard Mayes; Sherman, Gilbert Roger; Smith, George Fisher; Smith, Robert Malcolm; Smith, Warwick Vosper.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Sommers, Paul Adams; Spelman, Robert Arthur; Stan, Raymond Henry; Stanley, Carl Seaton; Swartz, Alan; Tanner, William Frank; Terry, Prosper Umbert.
Second Row: Cadets Tilotta, Anthony; Topham, Arthur Hallett; Upchurch, Joseph Staley; Wemple, Donald Lester; Wight, Douglas Roberts; Witoff, Arnold Abraham; Woodson, William Drake.
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AVIATION CADETS
UPPER CLASS (BRITISH)
[Photograph]
JAMES KEITH
Flight Lieutenant
[1 row of 3 photographs]
Cadets Adams, Cyril Gilbert Roy; Adams, Thomas Eric; Addis, Harold William.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Allden, Basil Eric Edward; Astle, Charles Wilson; Baxter, Alan Russell; Beveridge, James Lawrence; Bingham, Frank William; Black, Ian Campbell Bennett; Blades, Donald John Morrison.
Second Row: Cadets Bolam, Warwick Hall; Bolton, Wm.; Botsford, Robert Harry; Bowman, Alexander Henderson; Boyd, Richard Edwin; Breffit, Raymond Hulley; Brooks, Oliver Villiers.
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AVIATION CADETS
UPPER CLASS (BRITISH)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Brothwell; Robert Sidney; Brown, Frank; Bryan, Maurice; Brydson, John Alexander; Canham, Morris William; Carey, John Charles; Champion, Ronald Treweeke.
Second Row: Cadets Charlton, John; Chatting, Kenneth Frederick; Cheek, Richard Leslie William; Christie, Brian Hamilton; Christison, Albert Ernest; Clague, William Henry; Clements, Walter Leonard.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Coe, Dennis Norton; Cooper, Norman Maylin; Cooper, Peter Frederick; Cowell, Dennis William George; Cray, Stanley; Creed, Frank Charles; Daniel, Arthur James.
Second Row: Cadets Dart, Anthony Christopher; Davie, Charles Kenneth; Davies, Kenneth Thomas; Davies, William Norman; Davison, Kenneth Arthur Frederick; Draycott, Sydney; Dunn, James.
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AVIATION CADETS
UPPER CLASS (BRITISH)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Elder, Edward Vladimir Austin; Eldridge, Douglas Reginald George; Ervine, William Denis; Fenner, David Hendry; Findlay, George Allan; Fisher, Leonard William; Ford, Robert John.
Second Row: Cadets Frost, T.J.; Gibbons, Howard Paistowe; Gibson, Robert Brumwell Desmond; Gilmour, James Murray; Goodwin, Richard M.; Grant, William Joseph; Gray, David Anthony Athelstan.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Gregory, Bruce Leonard; Hadwin, Derrick; Harrison, Charles, Haye, Norman Raymond; Hayward, Robert Frederick; Heard, Stephen Arthur; Herrick, Charles H.
Second Row: Cadets Hicks, Reginald Jack; Hunter, Hugh Fraser; Huxstep, Maurice; Inshaw, Eric Norman; Isaacson, Aubrey; Isard, Phillip C.; Jackson, Donald Herbert.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Johnson, Victor Horace; Jupp, Harold Edward; Kershaw, Geoffrey; Large, Ronald Dive; Larkin, Kenneth Richard; Lillie, Gerald Ernest; Lodge, Joe Thomas.
Second Row: Cadets MacKenzie, Alasdair Leslie; Maltese, Francis Reginald Antony; Marsh, Kenneth Ernest Mark; McDougall, Robert; McManus, Charles Patrick; Medcalf, Henry John; Miller, Stanley Edward.
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AVIATION CADETS
UPPER CLASS (BRITISH)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Milne, Alec; Milsom, Geoffrey William; Mitchell, Willie; Molyneux, William A.; Moran, Leonard Edward; Munro, Donald John; Nicholls, Bernard.
Second Row: Cadets Nichols, John Francis; Ormston, John Thornton; Parkinson, Ronald Chesterton; Payne, Peter Henry; Picot, Raymond Charles; Plumb, Donald Ivan; Puddephat, Leslie Thomas.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Rogers, Eric Oswald; Sampson, Kenneth John; Saunders, James John Milne; Savage, Leslie Norman Gordon; Smith, John Edward; Starling, Frank Edward; Stephenson, Jack.
Second Row: Cadets Stimpson, Maurice Cecil; Storer, Colin Harrison; Swain, Matthew Alec; Taylor, Arthur Graham John; Taylor, Harold James Strickland; Thirkell, Albert; Thorpe, Alan.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Topping, Thomas; Trew, Leonard Frederick; Waldron, William George; Walker, Frederick John Thomas; Wallani, Edward L.; Ward, Ernest Frederick; Ward, James Francis.
Second Row: Cadets Warnes, Charles Arthur; Warwick, Harold Frank; Wears, James; West, Joseph Bernard; White, Kenneth Peter; Willey, Frank Noble Edward; Williams, Derek Gordon.
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AVIATION CADETS
LOWER CLASS (BRITISH)
[1 row of 3 photographs]
Cadets Adams, Donald Albert; Adamson, William Ian; Affleck, Douglas, Jr.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Ainsworth, Kenneth William; Ames, Kenneth Robert; Appleby, Ronald Kendrick; Ashton, James; Ashton, William; Ball, Frank; Barr, William, Jr.
Second Row: Cadets Barry, Claude Van Renen; Barton, Cyril Joe; Beattie, Frederick Donald; Bellis, John Lynton; Binney, Robert; Bishop, William John Barrie; Blow, Harold.
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AVIATION CADETS
LOWER CLASS (BRITISH)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Booth-Smith, Peter William, Boulter, Herbert Edward; Braund, John Prower; Braund, Marwood Paul; Brightwell, Geoffrey Charles; Broadhurst, Leonard James; Brookes, Eric William.
Second Row: Cadets Brown, Allan Arthur; Brown, Peter Knight; Browne, Ronald George; Bruce, Derek James; Bull, Edward Bert; Bullus, Alfred, Jr.; Carter, Philip Henry.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Chapman, Herbert Henry; Cheal, Druce James Henry; Clift, Stanley William; Cole, Frederick Walter; Collins, Peter Oswald; Cromarty, John Donald Rangs; Cutler, Joseph Henry Frederick.
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[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Edgington, William Philip; Edwards, Alan Claud; Ellis, Kenneth Albert Jackson; Evans, Reginald William George; Fanning, Thomas William Beeching; Farmer, Stanley Arthur Frederick; Feaver, Reginald James.
Second Row: Cadets Fenning, Ernest Hatfield; Firth, John Arthur; Flyn, James Henry; Forryan, Donald Percy; Forsythe, James Roy; Fox, Albert Thomas; Fuller, Russell Edwards.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Gallop, Roy; Gibson, Thomas, Jr.; Gilham, William Henry; Goldring, James David Spencer; Gosling, Harry, Jr.; Grayson, Harry; Hannigan, Cyril Richard.
Second Row: Cadets Hardwick, Dennis Henden; Harper, Raymond Thomas; Harrison, Geoffrey Dennis; Haymes, John Dominic, Jr.; Hayward, John Anthony; Heller, Peter Kevin; Helmore, Terence Martin.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Henderson, George Neville; Hewett, Thomas Hugh; Hicks, Raymond James Edgcomb; Holes, Leslie George; Holland, Dennis; Horler, Harold; Horspool, Jack Higginson.
Second Row: Cadets Hunt, Derrick; Hurley, Daniel James; Illston, Robert Kenneth; Jeffrey, Peter Law; Jewell, Ronald James Martin; Johnston, Albert; Johnson, Eric.
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AVIATION CADETS
LOWER CLASS (BRITISH)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Keeling, Arthur Edward; Kent, Ronald Herbert; Key, Evelin Leon Joseph; King, John Edwin Thomas; Kirby, Geoffrey Phillip; Kirkpatrick, James Harvey; Knight, Frank Roy.
Second Row: Cadets Knott, Kenneth Sidney; Lamb, Ian Inglis; Lawler, Maurice Rupert; Lett, John Joseph; Lewis, Allan Bennett; Lofthouse, Gerald; MacDonald, William Ian.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Mallon, John Leslie; Mandelson, Norman Peter; Marks, Anthony Raymond; McIntyre, Peter James; Mills, Maurice William; Myers, Granville; Neil, Ronald Frederick.
Second Row: Cadets Neilson, Thomas; Norris, John Henry; Oram, Dennis James; Partridge, Hubert Robert Frederick; Phippen, Charles Dennis; Pinkerton, Thomas Colville; Porter, Reginald Edward.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Postlethwaite, Gordon; Powell, J.E.; Price, Eric David George; Proudfoot, Robert Laval; Ralph, James William; Ramsay, Kenneth William; Reed, Arthur.
Second Row: Cadets Reed, William Charles; Richardson, Colin; Ricketts, Alexander Campbell; Robinson, Adrian John D’Egar; Routledge, William Burrell; Rowland, Roland William; Ruff, William Frederick.
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AVIATION CADETS
LOWER CLASS (BRITISH)
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Saunders, Maurice Walter; Short, Roger Lee; Slipper, Desmond Wallace; Slimon, John; Smith, John Batten; Smith, Stanley Ernest; Smith, William Richard Cuffel.
[2 rows of 7 photographs]
First Row: Cadets Tucker, Anthony Maxwell; Turner, Herbert Henry; Twitt, George Henry; Varley, Francis George; Wallace, Edward Peter; Wallnutt, Bernard Joseph; Walton, Peter Anderson.
Second Row: Cadets Warburton, Cyril; Watkins, Robert Frank; West, Kenneth Leonard, Wheeler, William Francis, Jr.; White, Frank Anthony; Whitelock, Norman Henry; Wigelsworth, Robert Armfield.
[1 row of 4 photographs]
Cadets Wills, George Saunders; Wilson, Jeremy Charles; Wiscombe, Rex Edward; Wolfe, Williams Reginald.
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61ST AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS AND AIR BASE SQUADRON
[8 rows of 5 photographs]
[photograph]
JAMES T. PATTERSON
Captain
Squadron Commander
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Master Sergeant Parker, Wilmer A.; First Sergeants Burdick, J.C.; Holmstrom, George A.; Technical Sergeants Dill, Luther E.; Fleming, Newell D.
Second Row: Technical Sergeants Herbert, Rex M.; Laverty, Dennis G.; Robertston, Brent; Stovall, Frank S.; Wynne, Owen G.
Third Row: Staff Sergeants Bedsole, Andrew; Blake, James E.; Bush, John W.; Clifford, Stephen J.; Fugere, Lucien G.
Fourth Row: Staff Sergeants Goldsmith, Carl S.; Goldstine, Martin L.; Greenfield, Harry; Gunn, Denzal; Guzak, Peter D.
Fifth Row: Staff Sergeants Hansard, Lester B.; Hill, Vincent A.; Kubler, Charles A.; Laney, Albert G.; Larson, Allan J.
Sixth Row: Staff Sergeants Leonard, Frank M.; Moore, Wilber G.; Reed, Harold J.; Seay, William M.; Short, William B.
Seventh Row: Staff Sergeants Spadafore, James A.; Thiele, Karl G.; Welch, Willie G.; White, Thomas H.; Sergeant Allen, Roy H.
Ninth Row: Sergeants Barton, Joe T.; Blake, Harold L.; Blankenbaker, William G.; Booth, Mose B., Jr.; Bromley, William A.
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61ST AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS AND AIR BASE SQUADRON
[10 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Sergeants Carlisle, Charles D.; Cohen, Leonard; Denmead, Edward; Fischer, Werner; Flanders, Hubert L.
Second Row: Sergeants Gordon, W.F., Jr.; Gower, Robert L.; Groo, Richard D.; Gugle, Eugene D.; Hartin, Arlie.
Third Row: Sergeants Hess, Joseph E.; Hollenberg, Elmer M.; Juneau, Dominique; Kasnevich, Alex; Knowlder, Charles F.
Fourth Row: Sergeants Kornhoff, Elmer D.; Krajeski, William S.; La Pointe, Percy J.; Lenz, Emmett M.; Marchione, Leo M.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Masters, Arthur E.; Milne, Jack H.; Pierce, Weston V.; Postle, Paul W.; Poulos, James G.
Sixth Row: Sergeants Rogers, George; Rollins, J.; Louis P.; Shepherd, Robert B.; Simmons, William C.
Seventh Row: Sergeants Thelen, Arthur F.; Tinney, Jack G.; Waugh, Harold C.; White, Alan D.; Wolff, Theodore H.
Eighth Row: Sergeants Worthey, Ernest W.; Zelonis, Edward J.; Corporals Allen, Robert H.; Andelman, Morris H.; Angelica, Salvatore B., Jr.
Ninth Row: Corporals Blake, Marvin G.; Brewer, William H.; Briney, Leo M.; Bunting, Howard S.; Carpenter, Glenn R.
Tenth Row: Corporals Cox, Donald C.; Doughty, Ennis N.; Dunn, James F.; Evans, Virgil R.; Freeman, Fred H.
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61ST AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS AND AIR BASE SQUADRON
(Reading from Left to Right)
[10 rows of 5 photographs]
First Row: Corporals Griffin, Henry S.; Howland, Lawrence R.; Kern, Melville C.; Kilcorse, William P.; King, Harvey L.
Second Row: Corporals Krumholz, Peter N.; Kucinski, Walter; Lineberger, Herbert M.; Lundelius, Raymond L.; Lutz, Ewing M.
Third Row: Corporals Machtemes, John P.; Mankinen, Vilho V.; Mathern, Albert J.; McIntosh, William L.; Moody, Philip W.
Fourth Row: Corporals Nutter, George L.; Peedin, Albert F.; Phillips, Frank; Pondillo, James G.; Raymond, Frederick W.
Fifth Row: Corporals Riffe, Herman C.; Russo, Andrew; Shindelus, Theodore H.; Solt, Cornelius J.; Straub, Charles E.
Sixth Row: Corporals Sudduth, William L.; Suknaic, Stephen J.; Trudeau, Donald B.; Veltre, Edward C.; Wages, Clarence I.
Seventh Row: Corporals Walls, John H.; Weller, Harold D.; Welter, Donald L.; White, Charles E.; Technician Fifth Grade Calloway, Robert C.; Jr.
Eighth Row: Technicians Fifth Grade Kemp, Howell E.; Pastuszak, Raymond; Whitaker, Charles W.; Privates First Class Ash, George A.; Bodarky, Clifford L.
Ninth Row: Privates First Class Bruell, Frederick M.; Cullname, John R.; Damico, Joseph S.; Klavuhn, A.H.; McKeague, Bruce E.
Tenth Row: Privates First Class Neal, Perry W.; Newton, Robert E.; Purificato, Generose J.; Reed, Walter W.; Scarbrough, Frank R.
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61ST AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS AND AIR BASE SQUADRON
[9 Rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates First Class Schiffman, Max; Sidoli, Andrew J.; Slivinsky, John; Smith, Max H.; Stringer, Kenneth L.; Thomason, Lance D.
Second Row: Private First Class Tumey, Robert L.; Privates Andrews, Wayne S.; Bailey, Edward J.; Barten, Melvin F.; Bartkowiak, Joseph; Bartlow, Howard L.
Third Row: Privates Blanton, Curtis L.; Boushaw, Howard H.; Boyd, James C.; Brashear, Clyde T.; Braswell, Ernest R.; Bridges, William H.
Fourth Row: Privates Bokaw, Thornton F.; Browning, Newt B.; Carey, John J.; Carson, James F.; Close, James E.; Corne, James A.
Fifth Row: Privates Culler, Joe H.; Curry, James M.; Davis, Bedford L.; Davis, John T.; Davis, Marvin F.; Dennis, William J.
Sixth Row: Privates DiBauda, Louis J.; Dill, Nelson W.; Dowell, Ralph H.; Fakes, John M.; Fisher, Albert F.; Fleischer, Martin A.
Seventh Row: Privates Fortuna, Alex C.; Fortune, Willie B.; Foster, Ray; Free, James F. Jr.; Fritsch, Clifford J.; Garman, Harry.
Eighth Row: Privates Garrard, Roy; Goldsberry, Herbert; Gnotta, Leo A.; Greene, Paul C.; Griffin, Edward K.; Heckle, Irving J.
Ninth Row: Privates Heller, Robert C.; Heyner, Frank W. Jr.; Hires, Walter B.; Hollis, Rufus W.; Holodick, Michael J.; Hummell, Jack H.
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61ST AIR BASE HEADQUARTERS AND AIR BASE SQUADRON
[9 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 3 photographs]
(Reading from left to right)
First Row: Privates Isaksen, Albert A.; Johnson, Claude E.; Johnson, Roe H.; Jones, John L.; Jones, Teddy L.; Kammer, Arthur B.
Second Row: Privates Kanoza, Mitchell; Kaplan, Benjamin; Kelly, J.D.; Korbein, Wilbur O.; Krupa, Conrad T.; Kulstein, David I.
Third Row: Privates Kuyers, Raymond C.; Ladegast, Oscar H.; Lake, Frank V.; LaLiberte, Roland R.: Lamkin, James E.; Lawless, Clifford F.
Fourth Row: Privates Lewis, Valda A.; Lindahl, Bruce M.; Lippman, Herbert J.; Lycos, Paul W.; Macken, Francis C.; Marchewka, Frank.
Fifth Row: Privates Mau, Henry G.; McBrearty, Charles F.; McDonald, Thomas J. Jr.; McGee, Harold W.; Moate, Wendell S.; Moessen, Herman G.
Sixth Row: Privates Morrone, A.R.; Nathan, Ralph M.; Nicholls, Clifford L.; Nicholson, Wesley R.; Packett, Sedrick O.; Pasquinelli, Phillip P.
Seventh Row: Privates Peterson, William E.; Pridmore, Leonard; Proctor, Kennth D.; Purdy, James S.; Repko, Joseph J.; Ruppert, Joseph C.
Eighth Row: Privates Ruttenberg, Robert L.; Shuart, Clifford J.; Stith, Forest B.; Taylor, Harold K.; Tomlinson, Charles F.; Tracey, Carl J.
Ninth Row: Privates Tries, Enlow E.; Tuite, Richard J.; Voorhies, Donald S.; Wells, J.D.; White, Robert; Woodruff, Geo. R.
Tenth Row: Privates Wroble, Joseph W.; Zaruba, Elston G.; Zick, Joseph J.
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321ST SCHOOL SQUADRON
[Photograph]
BERTRAM H. WITHAM, JR.
Captain
Squadron Commander
[4 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 5 photographs]
(Reading from left to right)
First Row: First Sergeant Arman, Robert S.; Technical Sergeants Bulka, Peter; Coffey, Edward H.; Fountain, Rufus C.; Martin, Andrew J.; O’Neal, James M.
Second Row: Technical Sergeants Richey, Leo; Scaggs, Wick K.; Staff Sergeant Bolduc, Raymond H.; Brock, James V.; Burns, Bernard; Gibson, Leon F.
Third Row: Staff Sergeants Ginaitt, Bernard G.; Hanson, Hjalmar J.; Patterson, Edgar E.; Roberts, Gilbert B.; Rudde, Clemens A.; Sallen, Eugene G.
Fourth Row: Staff Sergeants Sermon, Albert J.; Weaver, Horace L.; Werner, George; Sergeants Barbour, David A.; Bard, George L.; Beazley, Malcolm K.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Bent, Allen E.; Brasher, Robert L.; Brooks, Billy B.; Caratenuto, Joseph P.; Cavanaugh, Edward.
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321ST SCHOOL SQUADRON
[10 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Sergeants Diorio, Joseph J.; Doney, John R.; DuBois, Dean A.; Earle, Albert G.; Goodman, Louis; Green, William.
Second Row: Sergeants Gustafson, Leonard, A.; Hahn, Herman R.; Hall, Orie L.; Hand, Bliss A.; Harju, Eli M.; Johnson, Charles.
Third Row: Sergeants Kapner, Kermit H.; Klawitter, Franklin; Larkin, Joseph A.; Lortz, Fred E. Jr.; Lyle, James L.; Mackinnon, Harold W.
Fourth Row: Sergeants McLaughlin, Eugene J.; Miller, G.F.; Moore, Max J.; Popek, John P.; Pescott, Sewell E.; Prunty, Ardeth D.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Rapp, David; Reinhardt, Richard J.; Renfroe, Douglas M.; Repici, Angelo J.; Roemer, Carl E.; Schultz, Albert A.
Sixth Row: Sergeants Skolsky, John H. Jr.; Starinieri, Frank; Tillotson, William B.; Tokach, Daniel; Vaughan, Edwin A.; Walcott, Philip T.
Seventh Row: Sergeant Whitaker, Leroy C.; Corporals Bracy, Ronald P.; Brent, Landon H.; Buckley, Mariott B.; Clark, Alfred A.; Cobb, Harold C.
Eighth Row: Corporals Cooper, John J.; Crane, Harold D.; Czartowicz, Leo; Debonis, Alphone; Elms, Randle D.; Eyges, Edward.
Ninth Row: Corporals Ferris, Claude J.; Goldney, John H.; Hewitt, Dorance G.; Hodges, Asa G. Jr.; Hounsell, Philip B.; Jackson, Larry E.
Tenth Row: Corporals Kaminsky, Albert H.; Kohl, Robert E.; Kovalycsik, Robert A.; Krieger, Charles; Maietta, Patsy R.; Matern, Herman A.
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321ST SCHOOL SQUADRON
[10 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Corporals McCleery, John J.; Metzdorf, Robert C.; Palmer, Paul E.; Ringwood, James F.; Salvatore, Albert P.; Saunders, Robert N.
Second Row: Corporals Thomas, Paul E.; Vigliotti, Andrew V.; Privates First Class Andrews, George T.; Broome, James T.; Carter, Wilburn S.; Chandler, Sequard E.
Third Row: Privates First Class Green, James D.; Hills, James; Piccolo, Joseph J.; Private Anderson, Samuel W.; Arney, John R.; Atchley, Fred J.
Fourth Row: Privates Baxter, Robert D.; Bell, John J.; Berkow, Benjamin L.; Bonds, Rader J.; Brady, Robert J.; Brigham, Clarence.
Fifth Row: Privates Brown, Russell F.; Bunton, Oscar F. Jr.; Byrd, Elmer E.; Carroll, James; Chicha, Milan; Cleghorn, John G.
Sixth Row: Privates Cowan, Edward; Cronk, Earl W.; Dahlstrom, Robert O.; Denesiuk, Nicholas L.; DeVito, Frank; Donecho, James Jr.
Seventh Row: Privates Dressler, Stanley; Eckart, Joseph C.; Farese, William A.; Farrell, William M.; French, John Thomas; Gallagher, Myles W.
Eighth Row: Privates Gloystein, Robert E.; Goldberg, Jack; Gosa, Earl J.; Gould, Edward; Graham, Marvin C.; Gray, Robert E.
Ninth Row: Privates Greenfeder, Herman; Gregg, George F.; Hannon, Joseph F.; Hearn, Frank C.; Hebrock, Charles S.; Hemion, Nelson, Jr.
Tenth Row: Privates Herdt, Lester C. Jr.; Hiland, Edward M.; Holland, Thomas F. Jr.; Johnson, Joseph O.; Jorishie, Jacob W.; Kapsner, Edmund L.
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321ST SCHOOL SQUADRON
[7 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 5 photographs]
[2 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates Kelly, James A.; Lamson, Robert; Lang, Gerald; Large, George A.; LaVoie, Warren M.; Manz, Carl H.
Second Row: Privates Marino, George; Mathieson, Thomas H. Jr.; McCann, Charles F.; McCullough, Samuel, Milano, Anthony Jr.; Morton, Julius.
Third Row: Privates Moye, Earl V.; Mynyk, Michael; Norton, Clifford; Oller, George B.; Ponas, Harry; Reed, David H.
Fourth Row: Privates Repole, Angelo V.; Romotsky, Isadore; Russo, Frank; Shoaff, Earl E.; Shome, Carl W.; Smith, Oma S.
Fifth Row: Privates Staub, Frank T.; Trombley, Donald J.; Vitalbo, Julius N.; Warren, John E.; Weinstock, Solomon; Weiss, Donald C.
Sixth Row: Privates Whitley, Jesse John; Whippel, Harold F.; Wilkowski, Edward J.; Williams, Arthur F.; Williams, Charles E.; Winn, Horace M.
Seventh Row: Privates Womack, George H.; Woodward, William R.; Yergens, Jack W.; Zakrzewski, Clarence A.; Zembenski, Leonard W.; Zimmermann, John G.
Eighth Row: Attached Personnel, Staff Sergeant P’Pool, E.L.; Sergeants Booth, Lester H.; Britt, David A.; Schulz, William R.; Stehlik, Irvin F.
Ninth Row: Sergeant Swenson, Elbert H.; Corporal Brady, Charles E.; Chumbley, Paul E.; Cummings, William J.; Ortlip, Howard S.; Private First Class Kenaga, Grant J.
Tenth Row: Privates Carroll, Gerald E.; David, Walter A.; Hill, Frank D.; Shepherd, John B.; Standage, Duane E.; Witze, Huhgie F.
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322ND SCHOOL SQUADRON
[Photograph]
DONALD M. ALEXANDER
Major
Commanding
[6 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Master Sergeant Garrett, H.J.; First Sergeant Axford, W.R.; Technical Sergeants Goodman, Troy A.; Lilliott, J.K.; Marti, J.L.; Wallace, Dell T.
Second Row: Staff Sergeants Anglin, Lewis L.; Dail, B.; Fisher, William M.; Flanagan, J.C.; Galligan, F.J.; Grondalski, Francis P.
Third Row: Staff Sergeants Karajian, B.M.; Lowik, O.J.; Maguire, John J.; Martin, R.A.; Skalicky, W.M.; Sledd, R.J.
Fourth Row: Staff Sergeant Smith, Hoyt R.; Vertrees, E.; Vowels, T.J.; Watson, R.; Whitsitt, W.E.; Winters, H.L.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Back, B.; Chase, Edwin F.; Conto, A.; Collins, Clynton J.; Corder, C.; Dick, Louis C.
Sixth Row: Sergeants Delise, Ralph; Donth, L.W.; Eure, Lankford; Evans, E.; Francescone, Salvatore; Gish, James L.
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322ND SCHOOL SQUADRON
[9 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Sergeants Goff, H.C.; Harmon, James H.; Harmon, J.C.; Holt, M.A.; Huston, C.E.
Second Row: Sergeants Jacobi, Erwin H.; Jakobiec, J.F.; Kelleher, C.P.; Kelly, Joseph J.; Kreutzfeldt, Charles.
Third Row: Sergeants Kuran, J.W.; Kwolek, R.L.; Meade, L.; Meyers, V.; Mihalic, J.
Fourth Row: Sergeants Mills, E.; Norton, D.J.; Pierce, Bob; Pittz, L.J.; Ripking, W.H.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Shrewsbury, James R.; Smith, E.C.; Stamper, Fred; Tedder, A.F.; Vovolka, J.
Sixth Row: Sergeants Welch, P.; Wright, Glenn W.; Corporals Asmus, C.H.; Bauer, Louis H.; Carafello, E.A.
Seventh Row: Corporals Charland, Albert J.; Cook, R.W.; Evans, W.L.; Fisher, Don R.; Floyd, Joe E.
Eighth Row: Corporals Frakes, William g.; Friesen, A.R.; Gardo, N.; Gibson, James H.; Handrow, Wesley A.
Ninth Row: Corporals Havens, W.; Huettig, Hans G.; Johnson, K.W.; Keyser, James A.; Kline, Lawrence R.
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322ND SCHOOL SQUADRON
[9 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Corporals Lehner, C.E.; Litsenberger, John A.; Mayse, Richard D.; Metzger, George O.; Moore, Herman W.
Second Row: Corporals Naypaver, Frank J.; Nelson, L.O.; Obosla, J.; O’Neal, Noland L.; Price, Jack J.
Third Row: Corporals Rabinak, K.; Schaefer, O.M.; Siddens, R.; Wiederspahn, Clarence; Private First Class Arnold, Ralph H.
Fourth Row: Privates First Class Britt, Ralph W.; Drayton, A.; Ford, Benjamin F.; Glauberman, J.; Harber, Clarence E.
Fifth Row: Privates First Class Lewis, J.P.; Williams, G.R.; Privates All, Harry; Aune, Earl B.; Ball, Harry N.
Sixth Row: Privates Bryde, Glenn M.; Burgerhoff, William; Busch, Ed.; Caggiano, Ralph; Czajkowski, Leo S.
Seventh Row: Privates Devries, S.; Dittmeier, Raymond e.; Dooley, T.C.; Fox, F.E.; Frank, Lloyd.
Eighth Row: Privates Giele, Louis; Gilley, Lawence L.; Gnatowsky, Emanuel; Gustafson, Edwin A.; Herzog, Henry A.
Ninth Row: Privates Hughes, Robert E.; Hurley, J.J.; Johansen, Harry J.; Kloepfer, Frank M.; Korzun, Frank A.
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322ND SCHOOL SQUADRON
[1 row of 3 photographs]
[6 rows of 5 photographs]
[1 row of 3 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
Rirst [sic] Row: Privates Kotarba, W.J.; Lacker, W.W., Lehman, Walter.
Second Row: Privates Lieberman, Louis; Lotus, W.S.; Mackey, E.; McDaniel, Clarence N.; McLellan, A.M.
Third Row: Privates Meyer, Bernard F.; Moss, James J.; Murray, John J.; Newman, E.H.; Novin, Jack.
Fourth Row: Privates Offshany, Edward A.; O’Meara, William P.; Pauley, John L.; Payne, David C.; Perewoznik, Louis P.
Fifth Row: Privates Ranch, John H.; Rice, John J.; Rose, John H.; Rosenberg, E.; Routt, Weldon B.
Sixth Row: Privates Schohl, Albert W.; Sciscoe, Thomas W.; Smestad, H.O.; Staniszewski, E.; Stewart, J.E.
Seventh Row: Privates Wealot, Johnnie H.; Wesenyak, H.; Whittington, Isaac S.; Wilburn, Reed S.; Witt, John H.
Eighth Row: Private Yanik, J.; Attached for Duty and Training, Fortune, W.; Haynes, Jack W.
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323RD SCHOOL SQUADRON
[Photograph]
CHARLES E. STIVEN
Major
Commanding
[6 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: First Sergeant Reese, Leo E.; Tripple, Herbert S.; Technical Sergeants McCarthey, J.W.; Scott, George E.; Wyndham, C.H.; Staff Sergeants Bennett, P.
Second Row: Staff Sergeants Carr, Archie F.; Frush, Charles E.; Garris, Leonard R.; Guinn, R.; Hull, James J.; Kopczick, R.A.
Third Row: Staff Sergeants Kundrat, M.; O’Donnel, Arthur F.; Palmer, W.D.; Riley, C.W.; Shoup, James C.; Sickers, Jack B.
Fourth Row: Staff Sergeants Simpkins, William T.; Steger, Fred O.; Sturcke, C.H.; Trent, Alva C.; Wagner, Robert C.; Sergeants Allen, Thomas R.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Assidio, Albert A.; Baker, Lewis J.; Bertino, Russell P.; Burress, E.W.; Campbell, Donald E.; Carpenter, Harold C.
Sixth Row: Sergeants Carpenter, Walter L.; Clineman, George F.; Consalvo, J.J.; Couillard, Charles H.; Crist, M.J.; Cutlip, William E.
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323RD SCHOOL SQUADRON
[9 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Sergeants Daniels, Joseph J.; Danielson, F.L.; DePalma, Fedele J.; Fishman, H.; Gaines, Joe D.
Second Row: Sergeants Gallo, John J.; Golt, William M.; Hailwood, W.T.; Hill, Henry, I.; Holder, Enos M.
Third Row: Sergeants Howard, Kelly; Jaworski, B.J.; Jacques, Vincent H.; Kasprack, Joseph M.; Lawrence, William D.
Fourth Row: Sergeants Nestor, John; Ovimette, J.F.; Pape, Pasquale A.; Petersen, Lawrence; Pordon, Guido J.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Rich, Richard; Schubert, Charles W.; Schultz, Milton J.; Seward, William H.; Smitson, J.
Sixth Row: Sergeants Swanson, Roy C.; Uhleman, M.; Vavra, Vance L.; Wagner, Louis J.; Ward V.
Seventh Row: Sergeant Young, Oscar R.; Corporals Abel, Jack W.; Accettola, Rocco L.; Assenmacher, John; Bonini, Frank P.
Eighth Row: Corporals Brown, F.H.; Capawana, L.C.; Eldridge, Charles A.; Goodwin, Frederick C.; Herod, John W.
Ninth Row: Corporals Hughes, P.E.; Jackson, Waverly T.; Kalinoski, Theodore W.; Kelly, Lawrence L.; Kleb, William A.
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323RD SCHOOL SQUADRON
[10 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Corporals Kmiecik, Alfred; Kurley, Donald M.; Malecky, William; Mayberry, Edward R.; McClintock, Calvin L.
Second Row: Corporals McLaughlin, Ellsworth; Mittendorf, William F.; Monks, Theodore V.; Muckleroy, Lance G.; Newman, Alfred.
Third Row: Corporals Nyberg, Francis; Palmer, Arvo O.; Pando, Samuel; Quinn, James P.; Smith, Joseph J.
Fourth Row: Corporals Stupka, Franklin; Suter, Edward M.; Szymczk, Harold J.; Walls, Kenneth; Washler, J.
Fifth Row: Corporal Weiss, William W.; Privates First Class Armstrong, Harold L.; Beaird, Henry E.; Bivens, M.F.; Blair, Robert G.
Sixth Row: Privates First Class Bleck, Frank J.; Bragg, William E.; Burney, William r.; Bush, Harold B.; Drejman, John J.
Seventh Row: Privates First Class Freisen, John; Fulk, Raymond; Hilton, James G.; Howk, Elmer D.; Huniu, Sam.
Eighth Row: Privates First Class Justice, James N.; Labardini, Julius G.; Lafay, George, Sr.; Lent, James; Machado, Richard.
Ninth Row: Privates First Class Maddox, J.W.; William J.; Magalass, J.; Martin, Frank C.; McMinn, Obie D.
Tenth Row: Privates First Class Mellin, Allen; Morgan, Morris E.; Nelson, Clarence G.; Nelson, Roy L.; Pugh, Alfred E.
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323RD SCHOOL SQUADRON
[10 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates First Class Rowe, Ivan R.; Shinnick, Edward C.; Stone, Richard N.; Van Kleeck, George; Private Andrews, Byron T.
Second Row: Privates Andrus, Walter T.; Atkins, Roy E.; Bader, Abraham; Bailey, Lucius S.; Blackburn, William H.
Third Row: Privates Blickhan, Anthony A.; Bond, Edward J.; Bozzo, John M.; Brackman, Elmer; Briscoe, Joseph P.
Fourth Row: Privates Brumbelow, Ernest C.; Cantrell, Leroy; Carey, Joseph P.; Cassidy, Frank C.; Crom, Edmund A.
Fifth Row: Privates Dadek, Joseph; Davis, Robert R.; Doviak, Steven; Estes, Jerry J.; Feigert, Robert.
Sixth Row: Privates Ferry, Joseph J.; Forseth, Edwin O.; Gillespie, William B.; Godin, Leo M.; Gogan, Francis.
Seventh Row: Privates Gold, Harry; Graves, Conley F.; Halick, John M.; Hake, Paul; Hamoutz, Andrew M.
Eighth Row: Privates Hendrzak, Joseph; Hibner, Chas. H.; Hill, Albert S.; Holeman, Robert L.; Hooker, Leon G.
Ninth Row: Privates Jacobson, Orace J.; Johnson, Roy H.; Kaffenberger, Frederick H.; Kamke, Willard W.; Kelley, Albert J.
Tenth Row: Privates Klitzke, Donald K.; Kosiek, Mitchell S.; Kurkowski, Edward A.; Kurowski, John G.; Lanham, John T.
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323RD SCHOOL SQUADRON
[9 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 4 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates Levy, Stanley H.; Logan, Richard W.; Lukhardt, Hiram E.; Malinowski, Henry J.; Marshall, Stanley E.; Marx, Ralph D.
Second Row: Privates Mascia, Ralph A.; Massey, Emmette B.; McCoy, Charles B.; McGuire, John J.; McLaughlin, James I.; McLaughlin, Ralph W.
Third Row: Privates McMahon, Raymond E.; McNeill, Edward V.; Meiller, James H.; Mulrean, John J.; Murphy, James H.; Mussori, Guy A.
Fourth Row: Privates Nannis, Morton; Norell, Olle A.; Nyeste, John A.; Ouillette, Wilfred J.; Painter, Robert S.; Pantzer, Frank J.
Fifth Row: Privates Price, Charles M.; Paine, L.A.; Remis, Walter A.; Rizzo, Patsy; Schladweiler, Arnold J.; Schiffer, Frank J.
Sixth Row: Privates Schneider, Morris; Schoen, Harry E.; Scully, Walter A.; Seiber, Donald W.; Sloane, Thomas P.; Snyder, Henry F.
Seventh Row: Privates Starkey, Otto W.; Stener, Bernard W.; Thompson, Tilman J.; Tibbetts, Harry; Toci, Bruno; Towers, Lawrence A.
Eighth Row: Privates Triezenberg, Simon; Van Aken, C.E.; Varade, Frank A.; Vaszuez, Gabino L.; Waldrep, William J.; Willem John.
Ninth Row: Privates Wilkerson, Walter Floyd; Wisniewski, Paul; Wittschack, Rudolph H.; Wright, William C.; Zachman, John J.; Zamesnik, Norman C.
Tenth Row: Privates Zintner, Emil, E.; Zmiejko, John J.; Zucca, Merritt F.; Zukowski, Felix.
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439TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
[Photograph]
S.H. JOHNSON, JR.
Captain
Commanding
[5 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: First Sergeant Gillespie, Earl; Technical Sergeant Noojin, Howard D.; Staff Sergeants Binkley, Howard H.; Bottoms, Ralph S.; Brasher, Arvin B.; Comsia, John.
Second Row: Staff Sergeants Elefterin, John; Felland, Trumen M.; Goldbaugh, James R.; Gregorczik, Edmund; Hall, Emerson G.; King, Harold B.
Third Row: Staff Sergeants McLoughlin, Norbert; Lane, William C.; Rowe, Lloyd A.; Sergeants Beck, Robert W.; Brasher, Rayford L.; Carpenter, Roy W.
Fourth Row: Sergeants Floyd, James H.; Gardner, Richard H.; Godsell, Jack E.; Grantham, George, Jr.; Green Ira W.; Gunn, Jack A.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Hallman, Joseph H.; Jr.; Hejl, Raymond J.; Herd, Charles E.; Hilgren, Victor A.; Hill, Jack C.; Hill, James O.
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439TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
[10 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Sergeants Hines, Lawrence F.; Howard, Foy J.; Jr.; Howes, Harry R.; Hurdis, Elmer W.; Jagodinski, Walter E.; Jones, Grover C. Jr.
Second Row: Sergeants Kaler, Harold A.; Kane, Leroy J.; Masters, Azel E.; Mulligan, Leo J.; Morgan, Lyle E.; Onsgard, Albertus T.
Third Row: Sergeants Pence, William R.; Ruzicka, Gerald G.; Singleton, Thomas; Smith, Thomas H.; Webb, McKinley; Welborn, Leslie P.
Fourth Row: Sergeants Whitcomb, Peter B.; Williams, Willie M.; Corporals Anderson, James S.; Bussler, Rudyard A.; Chestney, Bard S.; Cobb, Haskell T.
Fifth Row: Corporals Cox, John A.; Dodd, Hugh C.; Griffis, Bryce E.; Harris, Walter A.; Hawkins, Chester E.; Hite, William B.
Sixth Row: Corporals Johnson, Eugene r.; Kess, Raymond P.; Matlock, Samuel A.; McKain, Newell R.; Miller, William F.; Pabich, Francis F.
Seventh Row: Corporals Pennington, Hubert W.; Rodriguez, Celso, Jr.; Spencer, Wayne C.; Smiczek, Leonard J.; Stark, Ernest F.; Walker, Cecil M.
Eighth Row: Corporals Ylimainen, Uno E.; Privates First Class Barrow, Arthur W.; Betts, Albert W.; Bradbury, Frelan C.; Breon, Eugene E.; Charles, Joseph H.
Ninth Row: Privates First Class Cooper, William C.; Cubbedge, David L.; Cummings, Charles E.; Daugherty, James Q.; Kellems, Robert B.; Kottke, Howard H.
Tenth Row: Privates First Class Martin, Loral; Papai, William J.; Ridgeway, John R.; Stump, Ralph R.; Privates Aaron, Harry J. Jr.; Acker, Junior H.
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439TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
[9 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates Agnew, James L.; Alquin, Eugene W.; Anderes, Albert C.; Attaway, J.A.E.; Baecker, John A.; Baker, J.W.
Second Row: Privates Baumann, R.A.; Boswell, Bon E. Jr.; Bozmoff, George M.; Bragdon, Lloyd F.; Brazell, Frank W.; Bream, William H.
Third Row: Privates Brodeur, Albert S.; Brown, Willard E.; Burns, Vincent J.; Butsko, J.; Crouch, Glen L.; Davis, Harry R.
Fourth Row: Privates De Vault, John R.; Dixon, Erb T.; Dougherty, Frederick G.; Ewing, Harry S.; Friedel, George R.; Gomery, Clair T.
Fifth Row: Privates Gordon, W.G.; Hassing, Philip; Heider, George R.; Hinkley, Robert W.; Horton, Travis G.; James, Thomas E.
Sixth Row: Privates Jeffreys, Van C.; Kautz, Harold E.; Kramer, Harry W.; Lankowitz, George; Lipis, Elias L.; Locke, Selden B.
Seventh Row: Privates Lyon, Robert V.; McAlpin, Marion B.; McQuillan, Patrick J.; Mandeville, Joseph L.; Mason, M.; Moss, Julius.
Eighth Row: Privates O’Kane, Robert P.; Rafter, Francis E.; Robinson, Arthur W.; Robinson, Horation A.; Schwab, Morris; Schwager, Stephen.
Ninth Row: Privates Seddon, John R.; Simmons, Adelbert P.; Smith, Charles J.; Smith, Herbert B.; Soudant, George D.; Taylor, George A.
Tenth Row: Privates Trombley, Robert R.; Wagner, Joseph D.; Wassilak, Adolph F.; West, Wayne D.; Withelm, James R.
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440TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
[Photograph]
BISHOP P. PARRISH, JR.
Captain
Commanding
[5 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Master Sergeant Rice, Douglas G.; First Sergeant Mitchell, Marston L.; Technical Sergeants Davis, Edward V.; Wiggins, Eugene W.; Staff Sergeants Arrington, Richard; Bacorn, James W.
Second Row: Staff Sergeants Blanchette, Robert A.; Embovitz, Adolph E.; Field, George H.; Gilbertson, Robert L.; Guthrie, James A.; Hewitt, John F.
Third Row: Staff Sergeants Kolling, James A.; Lenz, Clarence A.; MacQuarrie, John M.; Mason, George L.; Morris, Ted; Ordway, Richard.
Fourth Row: Staff Sergeants Pendell, Eugene G.; Seaman, Richard O.; Sergeants Campfield, Arthur W.; Carlo, Samuel S.; Carpenter, Colon T.; Cochran, Jack.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Danforth, Thomas C.; Davis, Howard; Dobberpuhl, Chester A.; Faling, Marvin R.; Foley, Edward C.; Galloway, Leo A.
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440TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
[9 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Sergeants Goddard, Clarence L.; Graff, Alvin G.; Hancock, Robert L.; Hoke, Dennis E.; Jarrett, William E.
Second Row: Sergeants Jensen, Howard W.; Jensen, Warren E.; Knight, Evert L.; Kramp, Paul A.; Kunsaitis, Anthony F.
Third Row: Sergeants Lutz, Eugene R. Jr.; McCormick, Kenneth P.; McNeill, John W.; Murray, Paul J.; Newell, William J.
Fourth Row: Sergeants Pochodzay, Marion; Pouliot, Roger; Pounds, Armond H.; Potts, George T.; Risinger, Harry B.
Fifth Row: Sergeants Russell, Ralph K.; Saxton, Cecil G.; Schaefer, Carl J.; Sevier, William F.; Shull, Donald C.
Sixth Row: Sergeants Starr, William G.; Taylor, Kenneth M.; Tribbett, Walter A.; Weronko, Chester J.; Wey, Karl W. Jr.
Seventh Row: Sergeants Whalen, Kenneth L.; Wolak, Edward W.; Woodward, John A.; Corporals Bauman, Jack; Brennan, Bernard.
Eighth Row: Corporals Coil, Stanley F.; Crowley, Bernard J.; Cunnnigham, Richard W. Jr.; Dalby, Charles W.; Forish, Joseph M.
Ninth Row: Corporals Frank, James M.; Fraser, Donald M.; Fritsche, Walter E.; Gilman, Frank R.; Haigh, Harold B.
[111]
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440TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
[10 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Corporals Harmon, Bennie D.; Harmon, John R.; Harter, Raymond H.; Hogue, Richard P.; Jett, Malcolm B.
Second Row: Corporals Korns, Dudley W.; Lindy, Ansel; Machaczka, Theodore; Magazzini, Michael; Mayes, Charles E.
Third Row: Corporals Moffett, Raymond P.; Patton, Hugh D.; Reid, Ralph M.; Rickey, John W.; Shields, Kenneth S.
Fourth Row: Corporals Smeck, Harold E.; Smith, Richard C.; Stevens, Loyd H.; Thibodeaux, Joseph N.; Thompson, Kermit L.
Fifth Row: Corporals White, Orin L.; Williams, Walter W.; Woodruff, Donald M.; Wyme, Maurice H.; Private First Class Doane, Edward F.
Sixth Row: Privates First Class Farmer, Carl E.; Fuscaldo, Frank J.; Gayton, Harold T.; Gilbert, Robert C. Jr.; Haidet, Clifford E.
Seventh Row: Privates First Class Harrison, James P.; Margiotta, John, Middleton, John I. Jr.; Oden, James H.; O’Neill, Gilmore.
Eighth Row: Privates First Class Reichart, Ralph R.; Riley, Samuel B.; Sheeran, Francis D.; Siegel, Irving C.; Simpson, Harold E.
Ninth Row: Privates First Class Spetjack, Frank; Stegemann, Gustave E.; Stoddart, James H.; Trickett, Powell N.; Van Doren, Donald J.
Tenth Row: Privates First Class Walters, Paul D.; Wright, Phillip D.; Privates Ash, Richard D.; Bettle, Daniel O.; Blank, Donald C.
[112]
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440TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
[8 rows of 5 photographs]
[2 rows of 4 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates Bode, Robert H.; Bonom, Milton; Borders, Cecil C.; Cation, Paul C.; Clark, Eugene B.
Second Row: Privates Dissen, Joseph P.; Duvall, Lauren L.; Eggen, Byron R.; Enoch, Milton; Fetzer, William W.
Third Row: Privates Fletcher, Kenneth T.; Goldstein, Kolman; Hornberg, Edward H.; Huffmaster, Howard H.; Huhtala, Ernest E.
Fourth Row: Privates James, William L.; Kaminsky, Victor; Knobloch, Wayne R.; Lagalo, Frank; Latham, Marion C.
Fifth Row: Privates Lester, Harold J.; Levy, Gerson; Liscomb, Nile L.; Lyons, Meade G.; Mann, Fred W.
Sixth Row: Privates Matzen, Arthur J.; Mikus, Anthony C.; Murphy, Raymond K.; Myers, Joseph D.; Packard, Robert R.
Seventh Row: Privates Pelensky, Raymond J.; Prasifka, Reyburn J.; Reeves, James B.; Rogal, Melvin; Rowland, Charles H.
Eighth Row: Privates Rucker, Tolbert A.; Shagrin, Louis; Shedlock, John A.; Spuller, George C.; Ter Haar, LeRoi.
Ninth Row: Privates Thompson, James R.; Thornton, Kenneth F.; Tutt, Donald R.; Wagnon, Felton C.
Tenth Row: Attached Men and All Ratings, Sergeant Sisson, Paul L.; Corporal Sannes, Carl A.; Privates Fabec, Frank L.; Gerik, Alvin R.
[113]
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MILITARY POLICE
[Photograph]
CHARLES R. CROSS
Major
Commanding
[9 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
321ST SCHOOL SQUADRON
First Row: Corporals Buckley, Marriott; D’Agostino, Joseph L.; Kovalik, Robert A.; Private First Class Bailey, Donald W.
322ND SCHOOL SQUADRON
Sergeants Little, James T.; Martin, Marvin.
Second Row: Sergeant McDermitt, John H.; Corporals Brady, John R.; Hatley, Daniel W.; Privates Gilkey, Robert J.; Wyer, James C.
323RD SCHOOL SQUADRON
Sergeant Matthews, Bernard J.
Third Row: Corporals Berry, Lester R.; Paris, John M.
439TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
Staff Sergeant Epsom, George A.; Sergeants Burke, James A.; Fyke, Mayes B.; Jones, Delbert.
Fourth Row: Sergeant Woody, Oren W.; Corporal Fuller, Charles C.; Privates First Class Eversole, Robert J.; Henson, Delbert L.; Ledford, Robert J.; Private Robinson, James H.
440TH SCHOOL SQUADRON
Fifth Row: Sergeant Mobley, John E.; Private First Class Simon, George V.; Private Marconi, Gene J.
61ST AIR BASE SQUADRON
Staff Sergeants Hanfstaengl, Egon L.; Love, John J.; Miles, John J.
Sixth Row: Staff Sergeants Rooksberry, Robert E.; Wortham, B.C.; Sergeants Badgley, Jack L.; Carfello, Louis; Destefano, Joseph G.; Garriott, George A.
Seventh Row: Sergeants Kelly, Edward J.; Naugle, Melvin, L.; Seidler, Frederick W.; Turner, Ray, I.; Corporals Cerulli, Patsy J.; Korba, John.
Eighth Row: Corporals Napolitano, Patsy J.; Palmer, James A.; Shapiro, Joseph; Sullivan, Lester B.; Woznakiewicz, Leon; Private First Class Blanos, George.
Ninth Row: Privates First Class Greenwood, John R.; Kellen, Joseph W.; Rotunno, George G.; Privates Baer, B.T.; Eakley, George; Kershner, Jack.
Tenth Row: Privates McGuire, George W.; Novotny, Steven G.; Serdziak, Edward L.
77TH MATERIEL SQUADRON
Privates First Class Batten, Robert L.; Rea, John F.X.
[114]
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[Photograph]
J.W. CLARK
Captain
Commanding
BAND
[1 row of 5 photographs]
[3 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 4 photographs]
(Reading from left to right)
First Row: Master Sergeant Wickersham, R.; Staff Sergeant Karstens, F.H.; Sergeants Enckler, H.G.; Gancar, J.W.; Haislup, G.E.
Second Row: Sergeants Holloway, J.B.; Stynosky, G.; Zoller, R.H.; Corporals Feldman, C.; Lee, H.J.; Lowery, R.
Third Row: Corporals Luth, K.E.; Olney, D.H.; Rawles, F.C.; Silverman, M.; Privates First Class Egan, A.W.; Farrell, J.C.
Fourth Row: Privates First Class Lewis, R.; Lumbrazo, A.J.; Scarci, L.A.; Van Duren, W.; Venton, W. Jr.; Wine, R.C.
Fifth Row: Private First Class Zajac, S.J.; Privates Cosenza, G.; Fletcher, H.M.; Roberts, G.
[115]
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STATION HOSPITAL
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Staff Sergeants Lenhart, Andrew K.; Lockard, George C. Jr.; Sergeant Spanier, Henry; Technician Fourth Grade Levin, Robert; Technicians Fifth Grade Evans, David A.; Kenney, Edmund R.
Second Row: Privates First Class Houser, Michael J.; Kohl, John E.; Stoffa, John; Privates Butcher, William A.; Friedman, Leonard; Lasala, Vincenzo.
Third Row: Privates Mansfield, Thomas J.; Mills, James P.; Pasternak, Samuel; Schames, Abraham A.; Wright, Carl W.
[2 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 5 photographs]
VETERINARY DETACHMENT
STATION HOSPITAL
(Reading from Left to Right)
Sergeant Klingenhagen, Henry; Privates Hampton, William W.; Kafka, Henry W.
[1 row of 3 photographs]
[116]
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MEDICAL DETACHMENT
[Photograph]
WATSON L. LUTHER, JR.
Second Lieutenant
Commanding
[5 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Master Sergeant Galatas, Joe H.; First Sergeant Church, Jim A.; Staff Sergeants Haddon, Thomas W.; Lewis, Benjamin H.; Lieberman, Barney.
Second Row: Staff Sergeant Scheuermann, James W.; Sergeants Abernathy, Fletcher C.; Causey, Hilton E.; Craddock, Mike; Korngut, Archie.
Third Row: Sergeants Presley, L.A.; Wertz, Joe L.; Technicians Fourth Grade Heil, John E.; Hockenbury, Robert E.; Horine, Herbert R.
Fourth Row: Technicians Fourth Grade Innella, Michael M.; Kilian, John G.; Killeen, John M.; Corporals Hammer, Rudolph G.; Simchina, Michael.
Fifth Row: Technicians Fifth Grade Grieder, Roy F.; Hayduk, Walter F.; Huttmann, Charles F.; Kaplowitz, Leonard J.; Kleinow, William O.
[117]
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MEDICAL DETACHMENT
[1 row of 4 photographs]
[6 rows of 5 photographs]
[1 row of 3 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates First Class Cooper, Charles F.; Jr.; Davidson, Charles S.; Deitchman, Joseph; Ewald, Elmer W.
Second Row: Privates First Class Gombkoto, Stephen, Jr.; Massey, John E.; Miller, Albert W.; Miller, Ralph W.; O’Connell, John N.
Third Row: Privates First Class Raimondi, Angelo J.; Sadowitz, Albert; Privates Brown, Arthur J.; Cleveland, Winfred G.; Crowley, Charles H.
Fourth Row: Privates Donahue, Lawrence; Flynn, William J.; Geller, Sidney; Grier, Paul H.; Johnson, Willard E.
Fifth Row: Privates Kania, John; Krotchko, Michael G.; Lapidow, Frank H.; Lee, John H.; Miastkowski, Stanley.
Sixth Row: Privates Molloy, William J.; Nelson, H.M.; Nix, Earl V.; Roerden, Emil H.; Roller, Leslie.
Seventh Row: Privates Rubin, David A.; Schmidt, Edward; Schneider, Samuel; Sheehan, Fred E.; Weaver, P.H.
Eighth Row: Privates West, Thomas C.; Wilson, Doyle F.; Worm, Vergil H.
[118]
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MEDICAL DETACHMENT
COLORED SECTION
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Corporals Briscoe, F.; Hill, I.V.; Private First Class Allen, L.E.; Barnes, D.; Davis, D.E.
Second Row: Privates First Class Graddick, S.; Honeycutt, L.; Johnson, G.; Johnson, T.; Jones, B.J.
Third Row: Privates First Class Jones, R.J.; Robinson, C.C.; Privates Adams, R.; Bonner, F.; Brooks, H.
Fourth Row: Privates Elliot, H.; Gaines, J.; Hodges, A.H.; Jackson, G.; Jewell, J.
Fifth Row: Privates Lacroix, O.J.; Strickland, G.W.; Worth, F., Jr.
[4 rows of 5 photographs]
[1 row of 3 photographs]
[119]
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907TH QUARTERMASTER COMPANY
[Photograph]
RUSSELL C. BURKHOLDER
First Lieutenant
Commanding
[5 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Master Sergeant Krampitz, Albert J.; Technical Sergeants McCarthy, John A.; Mitchell, James L.; Staff Sergeants Codde, Harry L.; Hurtle, Herman G.; Peterson, Carl E.
Second Row: Staff Sergeant Spann, James L.; Technician Third Grade Thomas, Sidney M.; Sergeants Brown, David W.; Czarkowski, Harry S.; Enger, Arnold J.; Hildebrandt, Arnold L.
Third Row: Sergeants Jockisch, Virgil E.; Lund, O.; Posavac, Martin; Wilson, Philip C.; Technicians Fourth Grade Blackburn, William K.; DeSarro, Edward M.
Fourth Row: Technicians Fourth Grade Goodrum, Roy A.; Henkle, John L.; Werther, Carl A.; Corporals Anderson, Raymond H.; Ferrara, Joseph; Griff, Wilbur L.
Fifth Row: Corporals Warner, William L.; Technicians Fifth Grade Hall, Roy F.; Lane, D.K.; Rhynard, Gerald E.; Salsman, Fred H.; Toomey, Oliver R.
[120]
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907TH QUARTERMASTER COMPANY
[10 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates First Class Allen, John R.; Atkins, James I.; Atristain, Philip; Axton, Delmar B.; Baxter, Chester W.
Second Row: Privates First Class Benjamin Jack; Black, John S.; Bradley, Donald C.; Cosgrove, Lester J.; Dixon, Osborne C.
Third Row: Privates First Class Gerner, Charles A.; Greene, Anderson B.; Hackett, William A.; Hamrick, John W.; Heischober, Harold.
Fourth Row: Privates First Class Houchin, Roy; Martin, Major G.; Meredith, Eugene Q.; Peeler, Harry J.; Phelps, Shirley E.
Fifth Row: Privates First Class Rose, Ruben F.; Rubensohn, Herbert B.; Ruderman, Arthur; Stock, Louis; Tyler, Melvin N.
Sixth Row: Privates First Class Ursitti, Tony G.; Wood, Otha L.; Privates Allen, Claude R.; Andino, Dominic A.; Baker, Francis M.
Seventh Row: Privates Barnwell, Roy C.; Blailock, Westley; Blume, Lonnie W.; Boone, Fowler; Brown, Chester W.
Eighth Row: Privates Donini, Albert; Ewaniuk, William; Gamage, Joe A.; Garlan, Vincent J.; Graham, Arnold C.
Ninth Row: Privates Harrill, Charles G.; Heffernan, Harris F.; Helms, General W.; Jordan, Ealon E.; Staley, Ralph E.
Tenth Row: Privates Verbetic, Stephen; Williams, Fred E.; Wilson, Edgar M.; Wright, Don C.; Wright, Ralph L.
[121]
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[Photograph]
JACK H. EVANS
Captain
Commanding
PROVISIONAL RECRUIT DETACHMENT
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Technical Sergeant Holcomb, Robert L.; Sergeants Gibson, William W.; Malisbury, Thos.; Montvidas, Peter J.; Corporal Lako, James E.
Second Row: Sergeant Whitcomb, Peter B.; Corporals Roberts, Gerald N.; Privates First Class Eversole, Edwin A.; Israel, William; Private Seymour, Gerald K.
[2 rows of 5 photographs]
[122]
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[Photograph]
PAUL J. RENGSDORF
Second Lieutenant
Administrative Officer
COMPANY L
[9 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates Adolphson, John W.; Altomare, Anthony A.; Beam, Lee H.; Billingsley, George N.; Blachman, Abraham; Bowman, Eugene.
Second Row: Privates Bozza, Peter; Brenelich, Raymond F.; Buskirk, Joseph A.; Damiano, Joseph; Dolan, Francis; Donnelly, Joseph.
Third Row: Privates Donnelly, Lawrence M.; Fabrizio, Patrick; Fountain, Herbert F.; Freese, Harry Charles; Furman, John; Gangloff, Richard B.
Fourth Row: Privates Gervasi, Sebastian J.; Harris, John F.; Havelichek, Andrew R.; Hebberd, William H.; Heiser, Francis J.; Henker, Edward.
Fifth Row: Privates Henry, James E. Jr.; Hensler, Regis J.; Hesko, Zygmund; Hess, Robert K.; Higgins, John V.; Horner, David S.
Sixth Row: Privates Howell, Clarence W.; Hughes, William J.; Lovino, Anthony F.; Javor, John J.; Johnson, Hilmer J.; Johnston, Charles F.
Seventh Row: Privates Jones, Arthur C.; Jones, Carrol F.; Just, Lugi T.; Kahler, Gerald P.; Karis, Edward J.; Keenan, Charles D.
Eighth Row: Privates Kelly, Joseph; Kendzior, William J.; Kenny, William T.; Kent, F.F.; Keough, Bernard M.; Keough, James F.
Ninth Row: Privates Klien, Michael; Kloc, Anthony J.; Kochie, Joseph E.; Kozak, Matthew R.; Kozielski, Constantine J.; Koznarskey, Joseph.
Tenth Row: Privates Krol, Stanley B.; Kudrick, John; Lagocki, Frank L.; Lagocki, Henry M.; Lambie, John H.
[123]
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COMPANY L
[1 row of 4 photographs]
[6 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 5 photographs]
[1 row of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 4 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates LaRock, Lloyd H.; Lauffer, Alvin K.; Lees, George E.; Leonard, John.
Second Row: Privates Leonard, Michael; Livelsberger, Clair; Lloyd, Raymond C.; Lopeck, Andrew; Love, Ralph; Lozier, Charles M.
Third Row: Privates Lunning, James J.; McAulley, Charles; McCall, Charles M.; McConkey, Bert L.; McCormack, Wilton M.; McDonald, Joseph R.
Fourth Row: Privates McHugh, Edward T.; Mackanin, Joseph; Marn, Edward J.; Marshak, William L.; Masciantonio, John C.; Mason, John F.
Fifth Row: Privates Matchett, William; Mattern, Floyd Jr.; Matthews, Thomas F.; Mendis, Joseph T.; Mildenberger, Edward A.; Miller, Earl K.
Sixth Row: Privates Miller, John J.; Monson, Harry W.; Murawaski, Frank J.; O’Byrne, Francis J.; O’Leary, George J.; Polino, Peter.
Seventh Row: Privates Priest, Donald O.; Ralph, Samuel O.; Reinhardt, William L. Jr.; Rhodes, Brady L.; Rook, Jack J.; Rubbo, Donald.
Eighth Row: Privates Rubenstein, Herbert; Saitta, Joseph L.; Salome, John; Schuchmann, Arthur A.; Scott, Joseph P.
Ninth Row: Privates Sherry, Sol H.; Simpson, William D.; Singleton, William C.; Skinner, Merton F. Jr.; Smith, James J.; Steeves, Kenneth J.
Tenth Row: Privates Uva, Marcello; Wandell, Leo; Whaley, Robert G.; Zottoli, Joseph T.
[124]
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COMPANY M
[Photograph]
ARTHUR C. SWALLOW
Second Lieutenant
Commanding
[9 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates Cacossa, Dominick A.; Carle, Ralph G.; Cole, Geo. W.; Comiskey, John J.; Conley, Sherwood Decker; Coons, Martin.
Second Row: Privates Dobrin, Irving; Heaney, John T.; Hogan, John J.; Hughston, Aubrey L.; Hyland, Norman H.; Jablonski, John M.
Third Row: Privates Kaulback, Aubrey C.; Keegan, Wm. H.; Kenny, John F.; Lamb, Fred E.; Lambert, Jas. V.; Latham, Edw. V.
Fourth Row: Privates Oberlander, Alex; O’Brien, Michael W.; Ockenhouse, Maynard T.; O’Connor, Jas. J.; O’Connor, Stephen J.; Olsen, Alfred.
Fifth Row: Privates Olszewski, Norbert J.; Orpesa, Alfonso E.; Osborne, Richard R.; O’Shea, Jas. F.; Oybkhan, David; Panella, Bernard J.
Sixth Row: Privates Panzarella, Frank; Pascale, Vitto A.R.; Pasko, Frank M.; Patrick, Chas. K.; Peacock, Duane J.; Pearson, Harry.
Seventh Row: Privates Peio, Randolph M.; Penna, Anthony J.; Petronecci, Sammy N.; Phelps, Francis W.; Piekniewski, Jos. R.; Pizonowski, Jacob.
Eighth Row: Privates Pooley, Robert T.; Post, Harold R.; Postorino, Patrick E.; Prenner, Garson; Preston, Lee J.; Pritchard, Arthur.
Ninth Row: Privates Pusterla, John F.; Quintana, Salvador A.; Rabinowicz, Markus; Raftrey, Martin J.; Raichelson, Ralph; Rajk, Frank J. Jr.
[125]
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COMPANY M
[10 rows of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Privates Ranni, John; Rasczyk, Bennie J.; Rasy, Danny H.; Renz, John W.; Repoli, John A.
Second Row: Privates Resch, Arthur C.; Reznick, Jos. F.; Robertson, Harry W.; Roney, Chos. D.; Rosenbaum, Wm.
Third Row: Privates Rosenblatt, Saul; Rosenblum, Harry; Rossell, Thomas D.; Rothermel, John D.; Rothermel, Woodrow H.
Fourth Row: Privates Rudy, Henry; Ruiz, Frank; Ruminski, Frank; Ruseckras, John B.; Rusin, Walter A.
Fifth Row: Privates Russo, Fortuanto R.; Sabella, Jos.; Sammarco, Mario J.; Say, Benton S.; Schaffer, Jerome R.
Sixth Row: Privates Schmidt, Eugene I.; Schneider, Wm. F.; Schoenfield, Max M.; Schofield, Patrick J.; Schott, Wm. J.
Seventh Row: Privates Schrerber, Louis I.; Schuss, Sydney S.; Seaha, John; Secare, Albert P.; Seitzer, Harold M.
Eighth Row: Privates Senikowich, William; Serling, Jacob; Serrano, Geo.; Shappe, Chas. H.; Shavell, Max; Sherry, Jeremiah T.
Ninth Row: Privates Shoemaker, Benjamin W.; Spaeth, Henry; Stasik, Theodore J.; Stenzler, Isidore, Strati, Gaotano V.
Tenth Row: Privates Sudut, Stanley J.; Sullivan, Daniel H.; Swartz, Walter R.; Tinnel, Ben T.; Wells, Emmett.
[126]
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27TH AVIATION SQUADRON
[Photograph]
KENETH B. CASSIDY
Captain
Commanding
[4 rows of 6 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: First Sergeant Barnes, Eugene; Sergeants Chandler, John R.; Davis, William R.; Snelling, Luther, Wilkerson, Freddie; Wills, Horace A.
Second Row: Corporal Watkins, Cornelious; Privates First Class Brown, Otis D.; Carter, M.C.; Cooper, Ceasar; Lawrence, Robert J.; Mitchell, Thomas.
Third Row: Privates First Class Morris, John E.; Ross, Wesley; Veal, Harold A.; Williams, Van; Privates Adams, William; Clemont, Herbert L.
Fourth Row: Privates Gilreath, John T.; Lawson, Clarence; Morton, Sanford; Shavers, I.W.; Slay, Woodrow; Spearman, Sayle.
[127]
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823RD QUARTERMASTER COMPANY
[8 rows of 6 photographs]
[1 row of 5 photographs]
(Reading from Left to Right)
First Row: Sergeants Fitzpatrick, R.; McKinney J.; Morris, R.; Corporals Burst, E.; McDermott, W.; Mitchell, H.
Second Row: Corporals Taylor, A.; Winfrey, P.; Privates First Class Anderson S.; Cumberlander, G.; Hamilton, J.; Jones, J.
Third Row: Privates First Class Pate S.; Thompson, M.; Wood, M.; Privates Baker, Ed R.; Buford, J.; Burney, E.
Fourth Row: Privates Caldwell, M.; Carter, M.H.; Davis, E.; Davis, J.C.; Dillard, W.T.; Ellery, L.B.
Fifth Row: Privates Fountain, O.B.; Freeman, Fred; Gooding, B.; Howard, S.; Kearse, J.; Lewis, E.
Sixth Row: Privates Logan, F.; McCollum, R.; McKinnie, W.; Mills, F.; Mitchell, M.; Phillips, W.T.
Seventh Row: Privates Pryor, T.I.; Ray, J.W.; Robbin, W.; Simon, J.; Spicer, G.T.; Smith, L.S.
Eighth Row: Privates Smith, J.; Smith, W.; Spain, J.; Staples, E.T.; Taylor, Alex; Thompson, F.
Ninth Row: Privates Thomas J.; Tyler, S.; Upchurch, J.; Wilson, G.; Young, P.
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PUBLISHED 1942 BY
ARMY AND NAVY PUBLISHING CO., INC.
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
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CAPTAIN CHARLES D. BAYLIS, USMC (RET)
Editor-in-Chief and Director of Field Operations
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[Embossed crest]
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Cochran Field
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Cutts, Ernest
Ernest Cutts
Ernie Cutts
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An account of the resource
14 Items. One oral history interview with Ernest Cutts. Ernest Cutts enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force, and trained as an air gunner in Australia. He flew on 34 operations as a rear gunner with 466 Squadron from RAF Driffield, flying Halifaxes.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Ernest Cutts and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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Coming back in bombers
"Daily Mirror" Reporter
Long before you awoke this morning Lancaster and Halifax bombers were winging their way over the British coast and across France on the same routes they'd taken months ago to bomb the Reich.
But in their bomb-bays were no bombs, the twin Brownings had gone from the gun-turrets, and inside the fuselage were rows of cushions.
For the bombers were off to Italy to bring home Army men, some on leave, and others for demobbing.
Bomber Command of the RAF has agreed to bring home nearly 20,000 men a month. Transport Command too, will fly a big number back.
After six or seven hours in the air all bombers will circle airfields near Naples and Bari before landing to pick up twenty men each for the homeward trip.
All the flying is done by day and at low altitude, so that the men, unused to air travel, will be as little fatigued as possible.
Air crews rest in Italy for a day and a half before making the long trip home.
Only fully trained crews, many with one or two tours of thirty operations to their credit, are picked for the job.
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Coming back in Bombers
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Newspaper cutting referring to Bomber Command bringing back Army men from Italy in Halifax and Lancaster bombers.
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eng
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NCuttsE151001
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
British Army
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Italy
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Daily Mirror
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Pending review
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1945
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Angela Gaffney
demobilisation
Halifax
Lancaster
Operation Dodge (1945)
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Evans, Eric
E Evans
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Evans, E
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2016-03-31
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Two items. An oral history interview with Warrant Officer Eric Evans (1923 - 2017, 2211558 Royal Air Force). He flew operations as a rear gunner with 463 Squadron but also served as a Captain in the Royal Tank Regiment. Also includes a letter from prisoner of war senior British Officer to Russian authorities.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Eric Evans catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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The Senior British Officer is communicating the following in writing to the Russian authorities here today.
Stalag 3A
7 May '45.
In order to avoid misunderstanding, I am putting into writing the principle statements which I made at our conference last night.
The situation of the British at this camp is now as follows. From 22nd April I, at the request of the Russian authorities, have been responsible for the administration and security of this entire camp of 16,0 mixed nationalities. The work of the camp during this time has been carried out mainly by British and American officers and men. It should, however, be appreciated that, owing to the Russian orders re. confinement to camp etc., we have to continue to all intents and purposes as prisoners. That the orders were a military necessity is of course clear, but nevertheless the result has been a lowering of the spirit of all ranks. It is in order to understand and make allowances for the mental attitude of prisoners of war who have been liberated but are still denied their freedom.
The food situation, up to yesterday, was precarious, and the daily ration, even though assisted by American supplies, is still grossly inadequate. It is realised that the Russian authorities overcame great difficulties in providing food at all under harassing circumstances, but it will also be agreed that the supply organisation of this camp performed most of the work. Furthermore, the camp has become even more overcrowded owing to the influx of Italian refugees. The problems of sanitation are considerable, and the general health is threatened.
In spite of all this, the Russian orders were obeyed and control was maintained up to 5th May. On that day, an American Officer, representing Supreme Allied Headquarters, arrived with instructions to evacuate the American and British in that order. His credentials were countersigned by the British authorities. Yesterday the American representative from Supreme Allied Headquarters arrived with a convoy to carry out his orders. Capt. Tchekanov acting as deputy for Capt. Medvedev who was sick, refused to allow him to proceed with his duties. Later when an attempt was made to proceed with the evacuation, armed force was used against American troop to prevent their leaving camp.
No doubt this whole affair is due to a misunderstanding but the situation created is extremely serious. In spite of continuing reassurances that we were to be repatriated with the least possible delay we now see the Russians actively preventing such repatriation. It is impossible for me to explain or justify such action in the eyes of the officers and men. I warned Capt. Medvedev on 4th May that such a situation was likely to arise, and that if it did I could not be responsible for the consequences.
Last night it was inferred that the obstacle to our repatriation was that the registration was not completed. I have repeatedly offered to control the whole of the registration: I could have completed it by now if my offer had been accepted. In any case I cannot believe that the Russians intend that the vital interests should be threateded [sic] for the sake of a mere formality.
As the S.B.O. here I am responsible above all else for the welfare of my officers and men. This welfare is seriously endangered by the present situation. I therefore demand that the position may be clarified without delay and that our repatriation may proceeded with immediately. Failing this I must ask to be enabled to communicate with my Government.
Finally, I must point out that the present situation renders my position as Senior [inserted]Al[/inserted]lied Officer untenable. I therefore resign my position and from now must be regarded as responsible only for the British.
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Communication from senior British officer (SBO) to Russian authorities
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States the situation of British in camp that the Russian authorities were responsible for the administration and security of he camp. Mentions responsibility for work in camp, the food situation being precarious, overcrowding due to influx of Italian refugees. Notes that an American officer representing Supreme Allied HQ arrived on 5 May but Russians refused to allow him to carry out his orders. Comments that although this situation was result of misunderstanding the Russians were preventing repatriation. Russian stated delay was due to administrative reasons but SBO had offered to conduct required registration. The SBO was responsible for welfare of officers and men and demanded that position be clarified to allow repatriation. As SBO's position as senior allied officer was untenable, he resigned his position and remain responsible only for the British.
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1945-05-07
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eng
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MEvansE[Ser#-DoB]-160331-01
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Germany
Germany--Luckenwalde
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1945-05-07
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Angela Gaffney
prisoner of war
Stalag 3A
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78 Squadron Collection
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2017-04-21
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78 Sqn Info
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Eighty-seven items and a sub-collection of seventy-three items.
The collection concerns 78 Squadron and contains documents and photographs.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Tony Hibberd and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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[Photograph]
Page break
[underlined] No 62 Course No 2 SFTS Brize Norton [/underlined]
Ackroyd Allen Amsted Ashwood Baker Ball Barker Bate Bower Burton
Carrington Carter Cheetham Crano Clarke Clarkson Collingwood Crowther Duncan
Earley Edwards Emmett Flowers Forder Fox Frith Green Hoggath MacDuff
Noland Pattisson Ruddock Stevens Taylor Wattam // Ormelka Osnek Hadrowek Hansl Havlik
Kooles Kodecky Melena Petrasek Sapak Satola Stach Stark Vakurka
[underlined] May 1941 [/underlined]
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Course photograph
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A large group of airmen sitting and standing in five rows in front of a building with arched windows. On the reverse 'No 62 Course, No 2 SFTS Brize Norton May 1941 and list of names'.
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1941-05
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One b/w photograph
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Photograph
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P78Sqn1745, P78Sqn1746
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Royal Air Force
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Great Britain
England--Oxfordshire
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1941-05
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Angela Gaffney
Flying Training School
RAF Brize Norton
training
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Thompson, Keith G
K G Thompson
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95 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Keith Thompson DFC (1238603 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, documents, photographs and training material as well as his navigation logs. He flew operations as a navigator with 101 and 199 Squadrons.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Mark S Thompson and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.
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IBCC Digital Archive
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2015-09-07
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Thompson, KG
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THE LAST TAKE-OFF
[sketch]
RAF says goodbye to ‘the Lanc’
By RONALD WALKER
THE R.A.F. is saying farewell to the Lancaster, the four-engined heavy bomber which became the major weapon of Bomber Command during the war.
The last Lancaster made its last “operational” flight yesterday – a tour of Coastal Command stations. Since the war the Lancaster has been serving as a submarine chaser.
And on Monday the plane will take off from St. Mawgan, Cornwall, on its final flight – to its makers, Avro, to be broken up for scrap. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, wartime chief of Bomber Command, said this of the Lancaster: “To my mind it was the greatest single factor in winning the war.”
During the war 7,366 were built. At peak strength, in 1944, Bomber Command had 42 squadrons of them. They dropped 608,612 tons of high explosive bombs and 51,500,000 incendiary bombs.
They wrecked the battleship Tirpitz; they breached the Mohne and Eder dams, and bombed Hitler’s eyrie at Berchtesgaden.
[inserted] [underlined] 15th OCT. 1956 [/inserted] [/underlined]
[page break]
[advertisements]
[page break]
[photograph]
SEAMASTER. After loss of the first prototype, Martin’s second XP6M-1 attack seaplane was well advanced in its flight trials when that, too, was unfortunately lost in November.
Span 100 feet.
[partially obscured photograph]
D.H. 110. Still unnamed, this twin boom all-weather fighter is to replace the Royal Navy’s Sea Venoms in due course, and has recently been equipped with the pointed radome shown in the illustration. Note also the pylons for various underwing loads.
Span 51 feet.
[photograph]
STARFIGHTER. Lockheed’s revolutionary XF-104 was unveiled early last year, and plans have now been made for three versions, the F-104A, RF-104A and F-104B. The Starfighter has been credited with a speed of 1,500 m.p.h.; it is 55 feet long and spans only 22 feet.
[page break]
The Lancaster Leaves
A solemn and rather sentimental occasion marked the official “retirement” in October of the R.A.F.’s last Lancaster, the famous wartime bomber which made over 156,000 sorties against the enemy, and dropped over 600,000 tons of high explosive bombs and more than 50 million incendiaries. There was no task the Lancasters could not perform, from high-level saturation raids down to tree-top missions against troop concentrations. Their crews sank the battleship [italics] Tirpitz, [/italics] breached the Mohne and Eder dams, and smashed other precision targets such as the V.2 rocket pens at Peenemunde. Subsequently they brought home many thousands of prisoners of war. In post-war years the Lancaster has been largely flown in Coastal Command in both operational and training roles. (Incidentally, the R.A.F. Lancaster which is used for aircraft recognition photography, and which was mentioned on p. 218 of last August’s [italics] Journal, [/italics] is still going strong.)
JANUARY 1957
[photograph]
[page break]
But the g[missing letters]
[photograph]
[page break]
[inserted] [underlined] 15 OCT ’56 [/inserted] [/underlined]
[missing letters]STIONS TODAY
Must this veteran vanish?
RONALD WALKER reported [italics] (Page Nine, Thursday) [/italics] that the last Lancaster bomber is to be scrapped.
I am sure I express the opinion of many ex-Bomber Command men in asking if something can be done to prevent this aircraft being broken up and forgotten. Some odd corner of an airfield or site at the makers could be found. I think that because of the part the Lancaster played in the war it deserves to be preserved as in the case of the Hurricane and Spitfire.
K. [indecipherable letter]. BONES, Wellstead-gardens, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.
[photograph]
Ronald Walker said last night: “Neither the R.A.F. nor A.V. Roe, the makers, plan to keep a Lancaster. The cost to maintain it in flying condition would not make it worth while.”
Support, from an [missing words]
[page break]
[inserted] circular mark around article [/inserted]
Dam Buster flies off
A guard of honour lined the runway and an R.A.F. band played the Dam Busters march as the last Lancaster in the service of the Royal Air Force flew off from St. Mawgan, Cornwall, yesterday, for the breakers’ yard.
Air Vice Marshal “Gus” Walker, of Bomber Command, said: “Those who flew in the Lancaster during the war will feel a pang in their heart at the passing of this faithful old friend.”
[page break]
[obscured photograph and text]
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Cuttings reporting and commenting on last operational flight by a Lancaster
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Cutting annotated 15 Oct 1956, reports last operational flight of a Coastal Command Lancaster.
A magazine cutting January 1957 reports the last operational Lancaster flight.
A cutting of a letter suggesting that the Lancaster should be preserved not scrapped.
A cutting records last operational flight.
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1956-10-15
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Newspaper cuttings
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eng
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Text
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PThompsonKG15010154, PThompsonKG15010155, PThompsonKG15010156, PThompsonKG15010157, PThompsonKG15010158, PThompsonKG15010159, PThompsonKG15010160, PThompsonKG15010161
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Coastal Command
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Great Britain
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1956-10-15
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IBCC Digital Archive
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Angela Gaffney
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Bombing of Peenemünde (17/18 August 1943)
Eder Möhne and Sorpe operation (16–17 May 1943)
Lancaster
Operation Exodus (1945)
RAF St Mawgan
Tirpitz
V-2
V-weapon
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Valentine, John. Ursula Valentine's newspaper cutting scrapbook
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131 items contained in a scrapbook. Mainly newspaper cuttings of events from May 1942 to 1945.
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THE TIMES TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24 1942
DAKAR JOINS DARLAN
FRENCH COLONIAL EMPIRE AND THE WAR
AMERICAN AGREEMENT WITH MARTINIQUE
Admiral Darlan announced on the Algiers wireless last night that French West Africa had put itself freely under his orders, thus showing that it remained “faithful to Marshal Pétain.”
Mr. Cordell Hull, the American Secretary of State, announced yesterday that a satisfactory agreement had been reached between the United States and Martinique covering all French possessions in the western hemisphere, including French Guiana.
“FREELY UNDER MY ORDERS”
DARLAN AND WEST AFRICA
Admiral Darlan, High Commissioner in French North Africa, broadcast the following announcement on the Algiers wireless last night:-
“Inhabitants of French Africa, I have great news for you. French West Africa puts itself freely under my orders, showing thereby that it remains faithful to the oath to the person of the Marshal.
“The enlightened patriotism of the Hight Commissioner for West Africa, Governor-General Boisson, and that of General d’Armée Barreau, Commander-in-Chief of the land, sea, and air forces in West Africa, join forces with that of the eminent Generals Giraud and Noguès and Governor-General Chatel.
“For the defence of French Africa we have taken the right road. Follow me boldly, with discipline and patriotism. Long live France!”
The Marseillaise was then played. -
[italics] Reuter. [/italics]
OTTAWA, NOV. 23. – The Canadian Broadcasting Company’s listening-post said to-day that it had heard a broadcast announcement from Dakar that the French Governor-General there had put the military command of his post under Admiral Darlan. The announcement was made in the name of the Dakar Government, the broadcasting company added. –
[italics] Reuter. [/italics]
RUSSIANS CAPTURE FIVE MORE TOWNS
DOUBLE DRIVE ON THE DON CONTINUED
ANOTHER 23,000 ENEMY CASUALTIES
PRECARIOUS GERMAN POSITION AT STALINGRAD
The Red Army is continuing to smash through the German defences and to exact a heavy toll in enemy troops and material north-west and south of Stalingrad. Five more towns have been recaptured.
In a special announcement from Moscow last night it was stated that 11,000 more prisoners have been taken, making the total 24,000, and that 12,000 more Axis troops have been killed. A vast amount of material, including 157 tanks, has been destroyed.
Our Military Correspondent writes that with their two chief avenues of communication severed, it would appear that the Germans will find it impossible to maintain their positions at Stalingrad and must either withdraw or be cut off altogether.
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Dakar joins Darlan and Russian capture five more towns
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Article 1. Headlines: Dakar joins Darlan, French colonial empire and the war, American agreement with Martinique, freely under my orders, Darlan and west Africa. Announcement from Admiral Darlin that French West Africa has put itself under his orders. Canadian Broadcasting Company listening post stated it heard a broadcast from Dakar that military command post had been put under Admiral Darlan. Article 2. Headlines: Russians capture 5 more twons, double drive on Don continued, another 23000 enemy casualties, precarious German position at Stalingrad.
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The Times
IBCC Digital Archive
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1942-11-24
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Two newspaper cuttings mounted on a scrapbook page
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eng
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Text
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SValentineJRM1251404v10034
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Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation)--Volgograd
Senegal
Senegal--Dakar
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1942-11
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Angela Gaffney
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Nolan, Frank
J F Nolan
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2016-05-17
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Nolan, JF
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Thirty-one items. The collection concerns Frank Nolan who served in the British Army 1939-1941 after which he was released with disability pension. He then trained and served as an inspector for the ministry of aircraft production, aeronautical inspection directorate at aircraft manufacturers. Collection contains correspondence, work inspection work documents, photographs, diaries and objects. Includes a sub collection work folder with 28 further items consisting correspondence and inspection reports.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by JE Nolan and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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[inserted] OK [indecipherable letters] [/inserted] [underlined] Degreasing to I.I. M.422 [/underlined]
[indecipherable word] No 17. P. Depot No 24. W/E [underlined] 18-3-45 [/underlined]
Two baths are in use in the factory, a 60 galls bath in the heat treatment bay and a 15 galls bath in the process room.
Both baths are gas heated and are in a good clean condition. They are thoroughly cleaned out every week by the following process:-
1/ Baths are drained of Trichlorethylene,
2/ Residue is well [deleted] drai [/deleted] brushed out,
3/ Baths are half filled with a solution of Sodium Carbonate and water, boiled for 3 or 4 hours and drained. Occasionally a solution of Ammonium Carbonate is used.
4/ The old Trichlorethylene is reclaimed by distillation, replaced in bath and topped up with new.
A titration value check is taken three times per week by M.T. Dept. The book record was examined, the last entry being dated 7-3-45. The values were:- 60 galls bath – 1.0: 15 galls bath – 1.4:
Small quantities of Sodium Carbonate are added to the baths periodically to prevent any reaction taking place, with consequent acidity, between the Aluminium Alloys and the trichlorethylene.
Several articles were seen through the process, one of which was coils of 2” strip Dural. Some of the coils were very tightly wound and considered unsatisfactory. Mr Dimmer foreman of the dept. was informed, and agreed to see that the coils would in future be loosened to allow the vapour to penetrate. Parts are allowed to stand to regain room temperature before any further processing.
Process is considered satisfactory.
J.F. Nolan
[page break]
Extension 29.
BS/SC/M/10347 (R).
10th January 1945.
GFL/ORD/BEW.
Messrs. Morrisons Engineering Limited,
Purley Way,
[underlined] CROYDON. [/underlined]
Surrey.
Dear Sirs,
[underlined] Order No. BS/SC. 10347 (R). [/underlined]
With reference to the above order, and in accordance with your quotation dated 15th December 1944, we would confirm acceptance of your price quoted, namely, [missing number] 5/-d each for the reconditioning of 1 off Tail Plane Tip to Drawing 40618/Sht.3.
Yours faithfully,
for VICKERS-ARMSTRONG LIMITED,
Acting for and on behalf of The Minister for Aircraft Production.
COMMERCIAL MANAGER,
Blackpool Works.
PS.
[inverted][underlined] Degreasing [/underlined][/inverted]
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Degreasing to IIM,422
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Covers degreasing operations in factory. On the reverse a letter accepting price quoted.
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1945-01-10
1945-03-18
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SNolanJF150621v10038
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1945-01-10
1945-03-18
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Nolan, Frank
J F Nolan
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2016-05-17
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Nolan, JF
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Thirty-one items. The collection concerns Frank Nolan who served in the British Army 1939-1941 after which he was released with disability pension. He then trained and served as an inspector for the ministry of aircraft production, aeronautical inspection directorate at aircraft manufacturers. Collection contains correspondence, work inspection work documents, photographs, diaries and objects. Includes a sub collection work folder with 28 further items consisting correspondence and inspection reports.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by JE Nolan and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.
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[underlined] Doping to I.I.M. 421. [/underlined]
Process Check No 34.
Log Item No 13.
W/E 14.4.45
[underlined] Method [/underlined]
Doping is carried out in the two doping shops, the Erection Hall and to a small degree in the Flight Shed. The approved scheme is as follows:-
1 coat SOBAC red dope to D.T.D. 83A or B.S.S. 2-D-101.
6 coat SOBAC clear dope to D.T.D. 83A or B.S.S. 2-D-101.
1 coat SOBAC Alum. dope
1 coat camouflage to D.T.D. 308.
The red dope is allowed 1 hour to dry and the remainder 1/2 hour each. These specs: and drying times are being complied with.
[underlined] Inspection [/underlined]
A dope progressing card is attached to each component and there is little danger of the wrong number of coats being applied. The 1st Penetration coat is covered by an inspection stamp, the next five coats by signature and the remaining three coats by stamp.
Test pieces are submitted to M.T. Dept each week. The results of the last batch dated 12-4-45 were examined. Out of nine samples submitted, 5 were slightly underweight, the deficiencies varying from 1/4 to 1/2 oz per sq. yd. This is not considered serious, but the viewers and inspectors concerned have been contacted and asked to increase the weight slightly.
[underlined] Temperatures [/underlined]
Several visits were made to all dope shops, temp, humidity charts examined and hygrometers checked with the following satisfactory results:-
[underlined] 6-4-45 [/underlined]
[underlined] No 1 Dope Shop – dry 71° F. – Wet 63° F – Humidity 64% [/underlined]
[underlined] No 2 Dope Shop – dry 71° F. – Wet 64° F – Humidity 68% [/underlined]
[underlined] Erection Hall – dry 67° F. – Wet 59° F – Humidity 61% [/underlined]
[underlined] Flight Shed – dry 66° F. – Wet 57° F – Humidity 57% [/underlined]
[underlined] Workmanship [/underlined] Several components were examined & found satisfactory being of uniform colour, and smoothness, free from bloom and [indecipherable word]. Any repairs, made necessary by damage; are satisfactorily carried out to approved repair schemes.
Process is considered satisfactory.
J.F. Nolan
[page break]
Extension 35.
Messrs. Redwing Limited,
Heath Town Works,
Deans Road,
[underlined] WOLVERHAMPTON [/underlined].
28th March 5.
BS/SC. 1.
11628
[underlined] NO. OFF. DESCRIPTION. DRAWING NO. ISSUE. PRICE. [/underlined]
106 Link 28503/869 A @£1-16-6d each
118 Link 28503/870 A @ £1-16-6d each
As quoted 5th February 1945. Ref. Sales/SFD/PMS/EP.
Made from Stampings already in your possession surplus to Chester Contract.
Our Order BS/SC.11118 on our Chester Works cover the purchase of the Stampings.
The relative drawings are already in your possession.
Air Ministry Contract No. B. 92439/40 C. 4. (C).
[underlined] CARRIAGE EX WORKS: [/underlined]
Already delivered by you to V.A. Barrow for use on our order BS/SC.7560. M.85.
Nett M/A.
C.409.
BS/SC/X/ORD.
IS/PS.
TO GENERAL CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN A.M. FORM 705.
SUBJECT TO INSPECTION AND RELEASE BY YOUR INSPECTING ORGANIZATION AS APPROVED BY A.I.O.
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Doping to IIM421
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Instructions for doping including method, inspection and visits to dope shops. On the reverse a letter concerning orders.
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1945-03-20
1945-06-16
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eng
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SNolanJF150621v10039
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Civilian
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Great Britain
England--Staffordshire
England--Wolverhampton
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1945-03-20
1945-06-16
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Pollock, Henry
Henry Pollock
H A J Pollock
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Pollock, HAJ
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49 items. An oral history interview with Henry Albert James Pollock (b. 1924, 2220546, 187029 Royal Air Force) his log book, documents and photographs. Henry Pollock completed 36 operations as a rear gunner with 78 squadron from RAF Breighton. After the war, he served in the Far East.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Henry Albert James Pollock and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[inserted] NEWS OF THE WORLD.
‘DUISBURG’ [/inserted]
Drop 4,500 Tons In 25 Minutes
GREATEST-EVER RAID ON GERMAN CITY
Within a few hours of the greatest Allied air assaults of the war on the Reich by day, people in Southern England last night watched the greatest air armada they had ever seen fly steadily out towards the Continent shortly before midnight.
IN 25 minutes yesterday 1,000 R.A.F. bombers dropped over 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiaries on Duisburg in the heaviest single attack yet made on any German industrial city.
The second prong of this shattering daylight attack was provided by more than 1,000 heavies of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, which raided marshalling yards and other targets at Cologne, while Fortresses and Liberators bombed military and industrial targets in the Saarbrucken and Kaiserslautern areas.
The Duisburg raiders, covered by more than 300 Spitfires and Mustangs of A.D.G.B., met few enemy planes, but the ground defences were very active, and 14 planes are missing.
The American bombers were escorted by very strong forces of Thunderbolts and Mustangs.
The great force of R.A.F. planes flew through rainstorms and thick cloud, but over Duisburg there were large gaps of clear sky.
Though some crews bombed on target indicators, many identified their objectives visually. Railway junctions, docks, and factories were all heavily bombed, and very large fires were left burning.
It was the second assault on this scale carried out by Bomber Command in three months, the first being during the Battle of Normandy, when this pulverising tonnage was unloaded on German armour concentrated in a forest area.
[boxed] “It was bad weather on the way,” said Flying-Officer T.B. Nopon, of Charlton, bomb-aimer in a Halifax, “but as we approached our target we found a gap in the clouds which looked as if it had been made to order. I could see the dock area and the town on both sides.
“Just before we bombed I saw a load go down on a factory. There was a flash – a fire started and flames and smoke came through the roof. I could actually see the fire burning inside the factory.
“My own bombs fell across a marshalling yard.”
As the crews turned for home they saw the whole area obscured with smoke, and many fires raging below it. A column of smoke came up through cloud to a height of 5,000ft. from a burning steel works. [/boxed]
A RECORD BATTERING
Never before has a single industrial city in Germany been saturated on such a tremendous scale, day or night. The biggest previous attacks were on Kiel, which received nearly 3,000 tons in July, and on Frankfurt, more than 3,000 tons, in March.
It is not the biggest single attack ever, as over 5,000 tons were cascaded on Le Havre on Sept. 10.
In night attacks the R.A.F. have previously dropped over 4,500 tons on Germany, but on more than one target area.
Since the beginning of the war, Duisburg, at the western end of the Ruhr, and only 35 miles behind the front line, has received a tonnage of 12,500 R.A.F. bombs.
At the point where the River Ruhr meets the Rhine this largest inland port in Europe handles river traffic, both for the Rhine and for the various waterways through the Ruhr.
Nowhere else is there so great a transference of goods between river and rail, and a huge railway network surrounds the port.
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Duisburg Operation Report
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A newspaper cutting of a 1000 bomber attack on Duisburg. The cutting quotes Flying Officer Nopon, a bomb aimer on a Halifax.
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News of the World
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eng
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NPollockHAJ161121-01
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Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force. Bomber Command
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Germany
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Germany--Duisburg
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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aircrew
B-17
B-24
bomb aimer
bombing
Halifax
P-47
P-51
propaganda
Spitfire
target indicator
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McDermott, Colin. Album 1 Evanton Gunnery School 1943
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2016-11-03
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McDermott, C
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41 items. Photographs of aircrew and aircraft taken at RAF Evanton during 1943.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Barbara Bury and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
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[inserted] O [/inserted]
[Photograph]
SZCZEPANIAK. SMART. CRUMPTON. BUCKINGHAM. STAROMIEJSKI. STANKIEWICZ
WRIGHT. CAMPBELL WOOD. FAKE SULKOWSKI
[page break]
[stamp]
R.A.F. EVANTON
REFERENCE G.1591.E
[inserted] O [/inserted] 15 APR 1943
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Eleven Trainee Airmen
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11 airmen arranged in two rows in front of a wooden hut. Their names are written underneath. On the reverse is stamped 'RAF Evanton Crown Copyright Reserved'.
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RAF Evanton
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1943-04-15
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One b/w photograph
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eng
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Photograph
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PMcDermottC16020027, PMcDermottC16020028
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Royal Air Force
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David Bloomfield
Angela Gaffney
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1943-04-15
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Great Britain
Scotland--Ross and Cromarty
air gunner
aircrew
RAF Evanton
training