= WINGS OVER HOUSTON 2008 =
Hey all, it's that time of year again and I would like to know if there was any Texas AHers going to this weekends
WINGS OVER HOUSTON?
I will be going to the Oct 25th event.
This year the USAF Thunderbirds will be performing
As well as A LOT of Warbirds
There will also be a "
Legends and Heroes Autograph Tent" featuring these fine gentlemen:
Lt. Dick Cole, Doolittle Raiders - Jimmy Doolittle's Co-pilot on the Tokyo raid.
M/Sgt Edwin "Ed" Horton, Doolittle Raiders - Engineer/Gunner, Crew #10, entered the Army in 1935. He volunteered, and was on Crew 10 as an engineer/gunner, for the secret mission that would later be know as the "Doolittle Tokyo Raiders," and bailed out over China at night during a rainstorm after his plane ran out of fuel. The Chinese rescued him and several other Raiders.
Capt. Birt Brumby - B-24 pilot with the 458th Bombardment Group In WWII. Led missions to German targets.
Col. Joe McPhail - WWII Corsair Pilot with VMF-323 "Death Rattlers" at Okinawa.
Lt. Col. Vince Lipovsky - F4U Corsair Pilot, VMF-223 Solomons, Took Charles Lindberg on several missions.
Lt. Col. John Lee - WWII P-51 Pilot, 20th FG, 79th FS, 8th Air Force. One of the first 35 engineers and scientists appointed to study manned space flight.
Lt. Richard "Rip" Collins - WWII P-47 and P-51 Pilot, 35th FG, 40th FS "Red Devils", 5th AF.
Flt. Officer J. Curtiss "Goldie" Goldman - Was a WWII Glider Pilot in the 441st TCG, 99th Sq. He flew in every major combat campaign in the European Theater, including Market Garden and Groesbeck, Holland. Goldie was known as a "Fighter Pilot trapped in a Glider Pilot's Body" for the way he handled the Waco G4 in combat.
Capt. Pete Mullinax - WWII B-17 Pilot, 205th BG. Shot down over Germany during the 2nd Schwienfurt Raid. POW until end of war.
2nd Lt. Charles W. "Hong Kong" Wilson - B-17 Pilot, 100th BG. Missions included the tough targets of Hamburg, Berlin, Merseburg, and Ruhland.
S/Sgt. Stan Bruin - Flew 24 missions as a tail gunner on B-17 Bombers in the 92nd B.G. Flew on 2 missions bombing Nuremberg. 3 days later on February 25, 1945 his plane was shot down over Munich and on the way to his first POW Camp he was forced to march through the heart of Nuremberg, much of it still burning.
T/Sgt. David Stedman- Entered the Air Corps in April 1943, and after training was assigned to the 455th B.G. as a radio operator/ gunner. T/Sgt. Stedman completed 24 combat missions and was awarded the Air Medal with one Oak leaf Cluster and four Battle Ribbons
T/Sgt. Raul Baldit- was a combat infantryman of the 87th division of the third Army. In 1944 his unit entered combat in Frances Alsace-Lorraine. After heavy fighting, his division crossed the German border in the Saar Region on Dec. 15, 1944. On Dec. 25, 1944, his unit was called upon to take part in the historic counterattack in The Battle of the Bulge. The division raced 200 miles to attack the German Panzer Lehr Division near Bastogne. Sgt. Baldit also participated in the Breaching of the Siegfried Line, Moselle River Crossing, Capturing of Koblenz, Rhine Crossing and the dash across Germany to Plaven, near the Czech border.
Members of the
PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS ASSN:
George Hemingway - PBY vet on Ford Island during Pearl Harbor attack.
Enoch Vaughn - Repair Sqdrn, Ford Island during Pearl Harbor Attack.
Lewis LaGesse - Was on the battleship West Virginia when hit by 7 torpedoes and sank.
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