Throwback Thursday-Family Pictures During the War
I was going through some of my mom's hundreds of pictures as she scrapbooked my dad's entire career in Army Air Corp which was later renamed the US Air Force.
Here is a picture of my dad at Stillwater, Missouri where he went to pilot school January 1944.
After graduating he went to Navigator School for additional training at Hondo, Texas.
This B-24 Liberator airplane was assigned to the base at Hondo Army Airfield in Texas which was a Army Air Corp Training Base for Navigators. My dad trained here in the spring of 1944 until he graduated and was transferred to the Philippines in October 1944.
The second picture is of my mom and dad at Hondo, Texas. The third photo was my dad's baby sister and she had come to visit from Knoxville, TN. Doesn't she look cute wearing socks and saddle shoes.
Hondo Airfield was also the home of the WASP female pilots who were based here.
Hondo was deactivated in November 1945 and most training was moved to Ellington, TX but later reactivated by the Air Force in 1950.
I love going through these old pictures and trying to put myself in my mother's place during wartime.
My dad retired in 1964 with 25 years in the Air Force. My parents are both buried at the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, CA.
Thanks for Reading my Real Estate Blog and Happy Veterans Day November 11, 2014.
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