USAAF pilots from Panama?
I'm scratching my head here. I recall a posting to the effect that some of the USAAF pilots who reached China in June-July 1942 came from an outfit in Panama. But I've just read through the thread on...
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Aha! Found a reference in my own notes, taken from Tex Hill's "autobiography" written with his grandson, Reagan Schaupp:"On Je 7, second batch of USAAF pilots came in, formerly stationed in Panama and...
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Prior to deployment to the CBI, Carney and Cluck were assigned to the 54th Pursuit Group at Harding Field, Louisiana, where they both had P-40 accidents in April of...
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Zeke, did you run a search on all those guys?Fascinating site, but I couldn't figure out how to get more than an un-hotlinked alphabetical air crew list. Later: I found a different website that lists...
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I did search the names of the other pilots you mentioned and found no matches for them. I have found that site is very useful way of confirming the wartime whereabouts of many pilots (of course it has...
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Thanks. I'll put the list on the website at the end of the month.(I'd give a lot to know what Harvey Greenlaw's accident was!)The one thing every newly minted pilot quickly realizes is that the way to...
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My grandfather served in Panama in WW11 with the 24th fighter squadron flying tigers, does anyone know where I can find information on this?
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There's a sketch of the 24th FS on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Fighter_Squadron Jim Dumas, Vaden Carney, Romney Masters, and Martin Gluck (or Cluck) were the first four pilots to...
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Bob McClure found this seven-year-old discussion and chimed in with the following information. I will post this on the Annals of the Flying Tigers. ************************ I just ran across the...
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