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United States Army Air Corps
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Those known to have served with United States Army Air Corps during the Second World War 1939-1945. - Allen John E..
- Auld Forrest Francis. Pvt.
- Axelrod Budd Bernard.
- Ayers Andrew Jackson. Pvt.
- Bailey Robert Allen. Cpl.
- Bailey Stuart. Cpl.
- Barber Obie Eugene. Pvt
- Barker Glenn J..
- Bell DFC. Colin S.. Flt/Lt.
- Blanchard Arthur. Bombardier
- Brabazon Albert. Pvt.
- Brenner Frank William. Pvt.
- Brock James Byron. Cpl.
- Brookshire Ray William. Pvt.
- Buffone Louis. Pvt.
- Byars William Raynard. Pvt.
- Cadagan James J..
- Campbell Teddy Carroll. Pvt.
- Carringer Wayne. Sgt.
- Cassin Joseph. Pfc.
- Collins La Verne. 2nd Lt. (d.19th August 1942)
- Cooney Frank William.
- Cote Victor Honore. Sgt.
- Court Julian Caesar. Sgt.
- Cousins William M.. Capt.
- Cox Hugh K. S/Sgt.
- Cummings Cyril Patrick. Sgt.
- Diamond George Eugene. A/Sgt.
- Ditre Joseph D..
- Elton Calvin William. Sgt.
- Fox Orville Kenneth. Pte.
- Francis Charles A.. Pte.
- Gittleman DFC. Jack.
- Gomberg Stanley. 2nd Lt.
- Graham Robert Anthony. S/Sgt.
- Johnson Elmer.
- Joyner James Monroe. T5
- Kirker Robert J.
- McQuarrie Willard Howard. Sgt.
- Menasco Elmer. Tech Sgt
- Miley Albert G..
- Moses DFC Samuel. Gnr.
- Mosley DFC H. Keith. Staff Sgt.
- Peltier Chester Kingdon.
- Praplaski Edward M..
- Roberts Allie Kenneth.
- Saylor DFC Edward J.. Sgt.
- Selway Kenneth L.. 2nd Lt.
- Stout Frederick Lloyd. M/Sgt.
- Tye Robert Earl. S/Sgt.
- Vaughan William P..
- Walthall Edwin Rucker.
- Walzak Edward. Stf.Sgt.
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T5 James Monroe "Slim" Joyner 1st Battalion Eighth Inf. Div I have an article pertaining to an aid station set up in the woods near Vossenack, Germany and I am looking for information on James Joyner and battalion and pictures. He was my father and a big part of history and I want my family to experience the pride I have in our country and the people who made it great. Any information would be appreciated. Thank you
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Glenn J. Barker My father was Glenn Barker, an avaition mechanic by trade in the Army Air Corps. In about 1987 a fellow showed up at my brother's door in Xenia, Ohio who claimed to be a half-brother from WW2. My question is, is there a database or something that would increase the odds of me finding my half-brother? Can anyone help?
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2nd Lt. La Verne "Rip" Collins 31fg 309fs (d.19th August 1942) My uncle, La Verne Collins, was a Chickasaw Indian from Coalgate, Oklahoma.
Barnstormers came to the fair and he went up in a plane and that was that.
He enlisted and was at the raid on Dieppe, August 19, 1942 flying a spitfire.
He was shot down like his friend Samuel F. Junkin of Natchez, Mississippi.
He was picked up by a ship, he did not survive but his friend Junkin did.
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Chester Kingdon Peltier My father Chester Peltier was stationed near Widnes, Lancashire during WW II. He was in the US Army Air Corp. While there he visited a family named Drummond. The wife was Alice. Her husband was in the RAF and they had a daughter named Freida who was about 6 years old in 1944 or 1945. When my father shipped out in 1945 he had over 200 letters that my mother wrote to him and we believe they may have bee entrusted to them for safe keeping but he was never able to see the Drummond's again before he left. Mom kept every letter he wrote her from 1943-1946 and I compiled them in a book and am hoping to find her letters to finish the story. My father passed in 2008, my mother is now 86 and March 7 would be their 67th wedding anniversary. The Drummond's lived in Widnes on Belvoir Road and also on St. Annes. It would be wonderful to find my mother's letters. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Edwin Rucker "Rocky" Walthall 381st Bombardment Group
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Albert G. Miley Bert Miley served from 1942 to 1945 as a radio operator on a B29 stationed on Tinian Island in the South Pacific.
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Stf.Sgt. Edward "Wally" Walzak Edward Walzak was a U.S. Army Air Corps Flying Staff Sgt. who flew 50 combat missions on B-17's out of Foggia, Italy during WWII as a ball turret gunner.
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John E. Allen Tuskagee John Allen served as a Tuskagee Airman during World War II and later earned honors for his Air Force service during the Vietnam War. He was drafted into the U.S. Army air forces right out of high school in Live Oak, FL in 1945. At 17, he was assigned to the 332nd Fighter Wing of the Tuskaegee Airmen - a group that broke racial barriers in World War II by becoming the first black aviators in the U.S. military. He did not see combat in World War II, but he later received the Air Force Commendation Medal for assisting in dearming two dozen 500-pound bombs that were dropped from the wing of a B-52 being prepared for a Vietnam War mission. In addition, he and about 300 original Tuskegee Airmen were awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 2007.
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A/Sgt. George Eugene Diamond My grandfather's Alpha Sergeant George Eugene Diamond was one of the prisoners held at Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12. He wrote diaries about his experiences as a POW. I believe his sister now has this information. I will check to see if she can get me a copy.
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Jack Gittleman DFC. Jack Gittleman flew 52 combat missions. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Clusters.
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2nd Lt. Stanley Gomberg Stanley Gomberg flew as a navigator and was stationed in Italy.
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Joseph D. Ditre Veteran of World War II
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Edward M. Praplaski Edward M. Praplaski was a veteran with the US Army Air Corps during WWII
and later worked for General Electric Aerospace, where he was an engineer.
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Pvt Obie Eugene Barber Air Corps POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Pvt. Frank William Brenner 28th Matl Sqdn 20th Air Base Gr. FEAF Air Corps POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Cpl. James Byron Brock 34th Pursuit Sq./24th Pursuit Gr (AC) V Intcp Comm Air Corps POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Pvt. Ray William Brookshire 27th Matl Sqdn 20th Air Base Gr. (AC) FEAF Air Corps POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Pvt. Louis Buffone AC V Intcp Cmd FEAF Air Corps POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Pvt. Teddy Carroll Campbell POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Pvt. William Raynard Byars E Btry 60th CA Regt (AA) Coast Artillery Corps POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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Pfc. Joseph Cassin 27th Bomb Gr. V Bomb Cmd. 16th Bomb Squadron
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Sgt. Wayne Carringer HQ Sqn. 27th Bomber Group. V Bomber Command. Wayne Carringer, Sergeant 6972776, served with the 27th Bomber Group, HQ Squadron, V Bomber Command, US Army Air Corps. He was captured and imprisoned at the POW Camp Fukuoka 17, Japan.
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Capt. William M. Cousins Tuskegee Airmen William M. Cousins, 90, of Philadelphia, a Tuskegee Airman during World War II who went on to work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, died on 15th May 1914, of pneumonia at Chestnut Hill Hospital Philadelphia aged 90.
He was drafted into the Army and lobbied hard for the chance to become an aviator. He was sent to Biloxi, Miss., then to Tuskegee, Ala., where he spent 30th July to 8th September 1944, in advanced training as a single-engine aircraft pilot.
He had one close call during the session.
"We were in the final phase of advanced training, and it was a high-altitude mission to get the [plane] to its maximum height in a group. Suddenly my windscreen was coated with oil, and I had to make an emergency landing on the field," he recalled in an online account. He landed safely.
Upon receiving his wings, he became a second lieutenant and one of the now-famous Tuskegee Airmen.
He flew to Casablanca, then on to Naples, and finally inland to Ramitelli, to join the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group. While stationed in Italy, he flew a P-51 Mustang, completing more than a dozen missions.
On 1st October 1945, Mr. Cousins, by then a first lieutenant, sailed from Naples and returned home. He was honorably discharged on 25th December 1946, with the rank of captain.
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Sgt. Edward J. Saylor DFC Edward J. Saylor died, age 94, on 8th Feb 2015 was one of the four remaining Doolittle's Raiders who bombed Japanese cities in a bold daylight attack four months after Pearl Harbor.
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Bombardier Arthur "Doc" Blanchard Air Corps Art `Doc' Blanchard was a bombardier with US Army Air Corps. He flew out of Northern Ireland between approximately January and March 1944. He was shot down over the French/German border, was captured and sent to Stalag Luft 6 - his POW number was 3070. Art was held captive for about 16 months, commencing in Germany, but also in Poland and finally Lithuania. I would like to hear from anyone who may have known Doc.
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Staff Sgt. H. Keith Mosley DFC  He enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1943.
Trained as an aerial gunner, Mr. Mosley flew 29 missions without incident on a B-24 Liberator out of England. On Nov. 26, 1944, during his 30th mission, just before he was to have rotated back to the United States, his entire squadron was shot down as it bombed the last German oil refineries at Misburg near Hannover.
He was locked in the top ball turret of the burning plane until pilot Wayne E. Stewart released him.
The aircraft exploded just as Mr. Mosley parachuted out. Five of the 10 men in the plane, including Stewart, were killed.
He was taken prisoner by the Germans. He spent 30 days in a room 8 by 10 feet in solitary confinement. He told of keeping his sanity by reciting poetry he had learned as a child and by calling imaginary baseball games featuring the Detroit Tigers.
At the end of December 1944, he and other prisoners were crammed into a cattle railroad car and taken to Stalag Luft Camp IV in Poland.
On Feb. 26, 1945, the prisoners began the "Death March Across Germany." Until the end of April, guards kept the starving prisoners on the move in snow and bitter cold, to delay their liberation by the advancing Soviet army, and later by the American and British armies.
The prisoners walked 800 miles across Poland and Germany, sleeping in barns and fields. They were given a quarter of a loaf of bread a week, so they subsisted by scrounging for food in garbage dumps.
He sold his sweater to a German housewife for a bowl of soup and exchanging his Army boots for a can of beef stew with a Sikh member of the British army.
In the final days of the march, he was so weak he fell behind his unit. But thoughts of home and his fiancee empowered him to catch up. On April 26, 1945, near Halle, Germany, an American jeep drove up while the men were resting by the side of a road and liberated them.
The men were taken to a temporary camp on the French coast before being shipped home. "How emotional was the moment, as we sailed into New York Harbor and glided past the Statue of Liberty," Mr. Mosley told his family.
The men were taken to a temporary camp on the French coast before being shipped home. "How emotional was the moment, as we sailed into New York Harbor and glided past the Statue of Liberty,"
He was honorably discharged from the Army Air Force in October 1945 with the rank of staff sergeant.
He was awarded the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Ribbon with four bronze stars, the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
He died, aged 91, on 26th November 2015
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151218_H__Keith_Mosley__91__Temple_official__decorated_WWII_veteran.html#JUR6ARkoc8OPoVJF.99
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S/Sgt. Robert Earl "Bob" Tye Group 1 Bob Tye was shot down and marched for 18 days before being imprisoned in Stalag 17B
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M/Sgt. Frederick Lloyd "Bud" Stout Frederick Stout served with the 8th Air Force.
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Sgt. Cyril Patrick Cummings My Dad Cyril Cummings was a POW of WWII in Germany at Stalag Luft 4. He never talked about his experience there. We all knew it was too horrifying for him. Then the last year of his life he told me some horrific stories I will never forget.
These just tore my heart out as he spoke. Of course their food supply was little to nothing. A family, dad, mom and young son snuck food in for them when they could. The Germans caught the family and made the POW's watch them shoot all 3 of them to death.
Another time he talked about Christmas Eve. All the guys started to sing Silent Night and the Germans told them to stop but they didn't so the Germans started beating on them but they still wouldn't stop. They were beaten through the whole song but they did finish singing it completely.
I have spent several weeks on researching my dad's records and Stalag information but unfortunately not finding much. If by chance anyone reading this would recognize the names: Cyril Cummings, Bill Tate, Don Cairns, Forest Wilmouth and Charles O'Geen (as these were the men he was shot down with.) The name of the plane was San Antonio Rose, name of the crew was Oftenstein Crew, it would be a blessing to hear from you.
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Elmer Johnson Elmer Johnson only stayed at Nordholz Airfield for a few months, probably from May 1945 to September 1945. He originally landed in Frankfurt and he was part of a very small outfit sent to Nordholz. There he met and dated my grandmother Lisa Rosekeit.
They had a son, my father, Elmer Rosekeit. However, it is unknown if Elmer Johnson knew of his newborn son. He returned to the US and contact stopped there. I've been searching for him or possible relatives since 1997. He was said to be a nice young man with an easy smile.
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Flt/Lt. Colin S. Bell DFC. 608 Squadron Flt.Lt. Colin S Bell DFC AE FRICS, longstanding member of the The RAF Club was born in 1921, joined the Royal Air Force towards the end of 1940 and his flying training was carried out in the United States of America prior to their entry into the War (before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour) in December 1941. During this interim period, he was nominally a civilian and wore civilian clothes - all provided by the Royal Air Force, of course.
Following Pearl Harbour and having been commissioned into the RAF, Colin Bell was retained by the American Army Air Corps as an advanced single engine flying instructor responsible for training American and British Cadets.
On his return to the UK in 1943, he converted to twin engine Mosquito Bombers and joined 608 Squadron (Pathfinder Group) based at Downham Market in Norfolk. During his tour of operations he carried out 50 bombing raids - all over Germany- 13 of them over Berlin.
Subsequently, he was transferred to ferry duties bringing back newly built Mosquitos from Canada to the UK with stop-offs at Goose Bay, Labrador, Bluey West 1 (on the West coast of Greenland), Reykjavik in Iceland, and finally into Prestwick in Ayrshire, Scotland. He ended his full time RAF service in 1946 flying out of Blackbushe nr Camberley carrying Diplomatic mail to Embassies situated in various parts of Europe and Africa.
Post World War 2, he qualified as a Chartered Surveyor, served for many years as a Government District Valuer, and finally set up his own firm, of which he is now the active Senior Partner, specialising in the valuation of industrial premises. His interests outside his family include walking, touring the UK, supporting the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund through speaking engagements, socialising, and enjoying good food and wine. Until recently he served on the Committee of the Air Crew Association, Biggin Hill Wing. He was made a Freeman of the City of London on 13th January 1987 and of the District of Huntingdonshire on 17th August 2013.
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S/Sgt. Robert Anthony Graham 8th Airforce Robert Graham is my dad. He was a waist gunner in a B-24 Liberator. His plane was shot down on 24th February 1944. I think the name of his plane was "Swan's Sons," but they had not had time to paint the name on the nose of the plane. The pilot was named Sidney Swanson, and he and the co-pilot held the plane steady so my dad and the other 4 survivors could bail out. By doing this Captain Swanson and the co-pilot knew they would be killed, and they were. I believe they were shot down over Gotha Germany, or the bombing mission was at Gotha, Germany.
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2nd Lt. Kenneth L. Selway Kenneth L. Selway was a Second Lieutenant in the Army during World War II. Kenneth was captured by the Nazis, and was sent to Stalag Luft 3 near Sagan, Germany where 6,667 other American POWs were held. Kenneth's capture was first reported to the International Committee of the Red Cross on 13th of June 1943, and the last report was made on 8th of June 1945. Based on these two reports, Kenneth was imprisoned for at least 726 days (1 year and 13 months). The average duration of imprisonment was 363 days. Ultimately, Kenneth was returned to military control, liberated or repatriated.
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