Showing posts with label 414th fighter group. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 414th fighter group. Show all posts

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Today in Clarksburg Ohio WWII history

May 2, 1943: Raymond Tucker is training in Manhattan, Kansas attached to the Army Air Corps' 100th College training detachment. Tucker eventually serves with the 414th Fighter Group, 437th Fighter Squadron flying P-47 Thunderbolts. William Bochard's ship docks in the Asiatic Pacific Theater.

May 2, 1944: Ralph Ater arrives Clarksburg on a furlough to visit his mother.

May 2, 1945: Clark Stevens is based somewhere in France. Francis Ater's family learns from a letter that he is now based somewhere in the Philippines. Jack Ater writes to Glen and Nell Ater describing a close brush he had with a German bullet in the Ruhr Pocket of Germany and to tell them he is currently in East Germany.