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Pilot Name
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Biography Summary
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Charles E. McCreary
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During the course of
100 + missions, survived the Purple Heart
with a few Clusters and was awarded the Air
Medal with Clusters, the DFC w /Cluster and
the Silver Star. During tour thru Italy, Corsica, and back to Italy was able to check-out in
B-25 and Hand Price's Spitfire. Still feel the
JUG was the most rugged and dependable
Fighter ever built.
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Harry D. Milligan
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Arriving in Great Britain in September of
1943, he was assigned to the 351st Fighter
Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group. After completion of tour #1 in P-47 Thunderbolts, and
a 30 day leave in the states, he returned to the
ETO for a second tour in P-51 Mustangs.
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Leslie David Minchew
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WWII FIGHTER ACE!
Leslie (Les) Minchew joined USA Reserves while attending University of Florida in 1942. In summer of 1942 he attended USAAF Flight Training and graduated as a Second Lieutenant in November 1942, immediately transferred to 50th FG. When the 50th FG became the core for the 355th FG Minchew was assigned to 354FS and shipped to Steeple Morden England in July 1943 where he remained till the end of the war in Europe.
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Madge Rutherford Minton
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MADGE RUTHERFORD MINTON, born March 22,1920 in Greensburg,
Indiana, won her wings in 1940 as the only
woman member of the first Civilian Pilots'
Training Program in Indiana, Butler University, Indianapolis. Ex-barnstormer Elvan Tarkington taught Madge to fly in a Rearwin
9000. Later Virgil Simmons taught her aerobatics in an open cockpit biplane Waco
PT-14 and a bastard Fleet #1 with a #7
empennage.
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Anna (Flynn) Monkiewicz
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There were no decorations, no medals
indeed, nothing to distinguish Anna's service
as a Jug jockey, save perhaps a hasty landing
in Goldsboro, North Carolina when the cockpit of her Jug began unaccountably to fill
with raw gasoline. At 800' bailing out was out
of the question; she circled back and landed,
departing the ship before it stopped rolling.
(no fire, but badly burned feet and ankles
from the high octane gas.)
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William Mullins
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He was then transferred to
the Ninth Air Force in France, where he
joined the 373 Fighter Group and checked
out in P47's. He flew 57 missions, mostly
armed reconnaissance over Belgium, Holland and Germany, with the 411th Squadron. In the Squadron's last mission of the
war, he took part in a dive bombing attack on
two submarines in the Baltic Sea.
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Bill E. Myers
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Graduated from Aviation
Cadet Training, class 43-G at Luke Field.
Deployed to the ETO with 511 the Flight
Bomber Squadron 405th F.B. Group in
Feb., 1944, and was the only pilot to serve
uninterrupted tour and return with group
after V.J Day.
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Raymond Bell Myers
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WWII FIGHTER ACE!
Following Graduation from Mississippi State College in 1941, Myers joined the USAAF Reserves and graduated from flight school in February, 1942. When the 50th FG was rolled into the 355th FG, he became the Squadron CO of 358th FS. By the time the 355th entered combat from Steeple Morden, England he had more than 600 hours, mostly P-40 and P-47 flight time.
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Edward P. Neyland
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His second mission was almost his last
when a ME-109 sneaked up behind him and
riddled his Thunderbolt with 20mm cannon
fire. Nineteen-year-old Lt. Neyland was able
to guide his badly crippled ship back to an
emergency landing at his English base where
he received the Purple Heart and Air Medal.
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Glen T. Noyes
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Noyes is one of the few who has flown all of
the '47's - the 0-47 and P-47 at Abilene,
the C-47 at various places and times, and the
Boeing B-47 as a Strategic Air Command
combat crew commander...
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