OLD TOWN, CASTINE and ROBINSONVILLE, New Brunswick - , 89, was at a Bangor hospital Nov. 23, 2011, when the backing parted from his reel. His was a particularly honed reel. Born Dec. 17, 1921, at the family homestead in Old Town, he was the son of James Wingate and Louise B. (Gray) Sewall. He attended Old Town schools; graduated from the Holderness School, Plymouth, N.H., in 1939, and Bowdoin College, class of 1943. Bowdoin awarded Sewall an Honorary DCL in 1980. His college career was interrupted in the summer of 1942 by training as an aerial navigator with the Air Transport Command. He flew many trips to the far Arctic and Greenland ferrying supplies and personnel. Given a direct commission into U.S. Naval Aviation in 1943, he continued flying the North Atlantic in Squadr...
, 95, of Elizabethtown, PA passed away peacefully on Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the Lebanon VA Medical Center. Born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY, he was the son of the late John and Catherine Pursel Schmidt and was raised in Orange County, NY. He was the husband of the late Beryle McCluney Schmidt with whom he had celebrated 51 years of -marriage. John was a World War II veteran who served in the Army Air Corps as an aerial navigator with the Air Transport Command, both before and after "D Day." He was a graduate of the University of Florida where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering.
GAINESVILLE - Waldon Pete "Pete" Snyder, 91, husband of Annie Snyder, much beloved father of six, World War II Marine Corps veteran, and retired United Airlines pilot, passed away peacefully at his home on Pageland Farm in Gainesville Jan. 7, 2011. Pete was born in Kiefer, Okla., July 12, 1919 to Josephine and Henry Snyder. He attended school in Pryor and Muscogee, Okla. He graduated from San Mateo College in California and completed officers training at the Naval Academy in Corpus Christie, Texas. In World War II, Pete served as a Marine Corps major and was awarded two distinguished flying crosses for his service in the South Pacific Combat Air Transport Command. Name plaques stand in his honor at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Va., and on the Wall of Honors at the Air and Space ...
Hell is So Green: Search and Rescue over the Hump in World War II," by Lt. Williams Diebold, edited by Richard Matthews, Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, hardcover, $22.95 Lt. William Diebold served in the Army's Air Transport Command in the China-Burma-India theater of World War II. He never fired a weapon in battle. Like many men who flew the Hump, he never saw on- the-ground combat, but he fought bravely by saving lives.
NORFOLK - Dorothy Elizabeth Johnson, 90, passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2010. The youngest of three daughters of the Rev. Henry P. and Alma E. Johnson, she was born in Minneapolis. After obtaining most of her public school education in the Pacific Northwest, she earned a bachelor's degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., and a master's degree in history from the University of Minnesota. She then became a civilian historian for the Alaskan Division of the Air Transport Command headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. After her return to the United States, she joined the faculty of what is now the Minnesota State University in Moorehead, Minn. After 10 years there, she moved to Cleveland where she worked in the public library system while she completed requirements for her P...
... This transfer placed the two boys under command of Radovich. By July there were rumors that the of... boys from the overseas service to Air Transport Command for service only in continental United Sta...
POLK -- , 83, of Polk, died Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at Grant Medical Center in Columbus. He was born Aug. 29, 1924, in DuBois, Pa., to George Wilson and Florence Leone (Clark) Hahn, and at the age 17 joined the CCC Boys. In April of 1943, he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and had served in World War II. He was stationed in England and France, serving in the 8th Air Transport Command from 1944-46.
...(a) Aerial transportation of mail (Pub. L. 140, 73d Congress). Persons who w... Airlines' Contract with the Air Transport Command During the Period December 14, 1941 through August...
FAIRBORN -- Wright State University's National Center for Medical Readiness and the U.S. Air Force's aerospace medicine school on Tuesday formally agreed to collaborate on civilian and military disaster preparedness. The disaster preparedness training and research may include aerospace; emergency and disaster medicine; critical care air transport; humanitarian response; contingency operations; civilian/ military interface; command and control; visual displays; and optical systems, according to a news release.
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