Aviators

Charles "Charlie" Rudolph
D'Olive |
World War I Ace, credited
with shooting down 5 enemy aircraft while flying a SPAD
S.XIII.
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Jack
Wilson |
World War II B-24 tail
gunner with the 10th Air Force in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater.
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Robert
H. Allison |
Flew
54 missions in the Grumman FM-2 Wildcat
supporting the Okinawa campaign, firing thousands of rounds of
ammunition, dozens of rockets, dropping several napalm bombs and
several 100- pound bombs on designated enemy targets.
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Maury
Coplan |
Started
out in the RAF, transferred to the US Army Air Corps, flying 25
missions as the pilot of a B-17
bomber over Germany and ended the war as a
P-51 fighter pilot.
Maury
Coplan passed away May 2005
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Ed
Kahn |
Assigned to the
8th Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 466th Bomb Group, 785th
Bomb Squadron based at Attlebridge, England, he completed
16 missions in a B-24 over Europe before
the war ended.
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Gordon Whitney |
Flying
a C-47, assigned to the 1st combat
cargo group, 3rd combat cargo squadron, Gordon supported British
and Chinese troops in China and Burma, dropping supplies from
200 feet and landing in paddy fields. He
flew 390 missions accumulating 652 combat hours.
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Howard Skidmore |
Flew
three missions escorting convoys to North Africa in the TBM
Avenger before being assigned to the Pacific where he participated
in the attack on Formosa, survived a typhoon and help sink a Japanese
battleship.
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Dan Colburn |
Flying the
Martin PBM Mariner, he supported
the invasions of Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. Was witness to
the signing of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
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Mel Heflinger |
Civilian
Primary Flight instructor for the U. S. Army Air Corps flying
PT 17 Stearmans. Assigned
to the United Air Lines modification center, flight testing B-17s
and B-24s.
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Ed Hatter |
Before flying 85 missions
over the hump into China he supported the troops
during the Battle of the Bulge, supplying material and troops
to the front line in a C-46.
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 Wes Stone |
Wes
started out as B-24 instructor before being assigned to the Eighth
Air Force in England where he flew 32 missions into Europe
flying as the Captain of a B-24.
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Dave Cochran
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Dave
flew 29 missions in a B-24 over Italy until he was shoot down. Wounded
he was taken prisoner and spent two years in a prison camp until
liberated by Patton's army.
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