Refine Search
...Friday, July 27, at the Kenai Senior Center.Bud was born Jan. 8, 1923 in Glasco, Kan. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps for the Flying Tigers as crew chief for airplane maintenance from 1942-46. In 1947, he moved to Alaska and lived in...
...with relatives. After graduating from high school in 1942, he attended college for a semester before joining the Army Air Corps. He flew cargo planes over "the hump" in the Himalayas during World War II and was awarded the Distinguished Flying...
...By 14, he was working on the stern-wheeler Nenana as a deckhand. When he was almost 18, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and was sent to the South Pacific. ''It was altogether new,'' he said, recalling the devastation that war brought...
...he has wanted to be a Marine since as far back as he can remember. He has a grandfather who served in the U.S. Army-Air Corps during World War II and an uncle who was in the Army during the Vietnam War, but he remembers hearing a Marine recruiter say...
...Hartford High School in 1933 and soon after joined the Army Air Corps. While serving at Selfridge Field, near Mt. Clemes...train to Fort Richardson where he was assigned to the Army Air Corps until his unit was deployed to the Aleutian Theatre with...
...Hartford High School in 1933 and soon after joined the Army Air Corps. While serving at Selfridge Field, near Mt. Clemes...train to Fort Richardson where he was assigned to the Army Air Corps until his unit was deployed to the Aleutian Theatre with...
...it hit at a slight angle,'' said Sean Murtagh, a CNN vice president, the network reported. In 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25, a twin-engine bomber, crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in dense fog. In Florida...
...Antlers, Okla. He had five brothers and two sisters and was raised in Houston. Mr. Elledge served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and received the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal with two bronze stars, the American Defense Service...
...American Legion Post No. 20. Mr. Chastain was born March 18, 1924, in Klamath Falls, Ore. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps. in 1944, was transferred to the 97th infantry and served in the European Theater until World War II ended. He was...
...Army Search and Rescue division, where he met his future wife, Caroline Cashman. He was a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps Expedition to the Mount McKinley region in 1944. He and Caroline started their family in an Army Quonset hut on their Nikiski...