Westbrook: Lubbock veteran served during three wars

...came out of the Civil War - and he used to call me 'Kid' all the time. It was 'Hey, Kid; hey, Kid.'"The Army Air Corps, where Do Padre was sent, attempted to turn him into a gunner, but he had difficulty in lining up the targets according...

Trove of medals at Texas base honors service

...Schertz and is an Air Force veteran of the Gulf War.That was more than enough for Zander, 89.At 18, he joined the Army Air Corps and was trained to be a navigator after scoring well on a set of tests. He was commissioned a second lieutenant six days...

Westbrook: South Plains warriors remember service time

...whom a heart murmur had been detected, spent his military time in the states.Jack Martin, who enlisted in the Army Air Corps, was in Europe for 39 months, according to Lynn.Joe Martin served in Europe also, and survived the bloody Battle...

Westbrook: Ronald Keever saw service in North Africa

...anti-aircraft guns nearby, and most planes didn't get through. Another deterrent was provided by the U.S. Army Air Corps."The Army had a couple of stripped down P-38s that could climb higher than any plane at that time. They would put...

A-J Remembers
Vernon Parker: Legendary World War II flier

...London and volunteer to be transferred to the U.S. Army Air Corps. For some reason, the transfer didn't come until November...time flying the Memphis Belle, which the U.S. Army Air Corps was pressing into service for a strong motivational training...

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Pitts: Survivor of war, crash, torture, Zamperini was more than hero


Editorial / Columnists
University of Phoenix founder John Sperling dies at 93

...Sperling left high school a virtual illiterate but learned to read in the Merchant Marine. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps, he began an educational journey that led to his receiving a doctorate in 1955."Dr. Sperling's indomitable ideas...

National News
Westbrook: Wallace Haney was a test pilot for the Army Air Corps

Wallace Haney of Lubbock, who enlisted in the Army Air Corps 10 months before Pearl Harbor was bombed, was certain...given a choice of a particular service to perform in the Air Corps, he saw as one of the possibilities these letters: FTC...

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Westbrook: Lubbock veterans recall two theaters of World War II

...vantage points.Jack Norwood, a Marine on the ground in the Pacific sector, and Olan Rice, a gunner aboard an Army Air Corps B-17 bomber based half a world away in Italy, were nevertheless fighting for the same country in the same war.Norwood...

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William Pasewark made his payment for freedom on Iwo Jima

...long-range implications, and meant to take the Army Air Corps, where there were no muddy foxholes to dig."You learn...regrets. And Weber, ironically, was taken into the Air Corps. Rehearsal for warPasewark and other Marines of the 25th...

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