Posts tagged with "Glider pilot US Air Force"



In Memoriam · 02 June 2022
Lawrence ALTO was born on the 10th of january 1921, prior enlisted in the US Air Force he was in a General School Academy/ 1937 - Football 1938-1940 Boxing, Wrestling and Tumbling 1939 - Aviation theory and model Airplane on the 31 May 1944 he was attached to the Ninety Fifth Troop Carrier Squadron as Officer of the squadron surgeon 5. flying Personnel Grounded: F/O Alto, Lawrence L T-122096 acute Otitis Media, Right. (ear infection) He was hospitalized or quartered. This may have kept him from...

In Memoriam · 13 June 2019
William KERN est élève breveté pilote de la U.S. Airforce le 17 février 1943 à Victorville en Californie. Il est alors officier au sein du 79th Troop Carrier Squadron, 436th Troop Carrier Group. Le 15 Août 1944, alors qu'il pilote son planeur vers les landing zones du sud de la France, le Waco CG4A perd une aile en plein vol au large de la Corse se crashant en mer Méditerranée. Robert HARDIN Jr, son copilote est aussi tué ainsi que ses passagers. (Source NARA)

In Memoriam · 12 June 2019
Né à Sacramento (Californie), il sera breveté pilote de la U.S. Airforce le 17 février 1943 à Victorville (Californie). Membre du 99th Troop Carrier Squadron, 441st Troop Carrier Group, il participera à l'opération aérotransportée en Normandie le 6 Juin 1944, et pilotera son dernier planeur Waco CG4A lors de l'opération Dragoon où il décède le 15 Août 1944. Nous recherchons à ce jour des informations sur les circonstances de l'accident. Army Serial Number 807 puis 0531344 Born in...

Veterans · 25 October 2017
Harold "Goldy" GOLBRANDSEN is born in Logan Utha on the 6th of July 1922. At age of 15, he join the Junior Division of the reserve Officer training school of Logan from 1937 to 1940 started as caporal and accomplished the school as a first sergent. After Pearl Harbor Attack , when United stades of America enter in world war tow Goldy make a basic training in the Twentynine Palms Academy.Condor field. as a civilian pilot, he became volonteer to Glider training in Victorville army school class...