Air Cadet turns into Infantry G.I.

[cadetat6]

I already told you how I met my wife, now for my service time.
1942 recieved pilots license in Michigan. 1943 enlisted in Army
Air Corp. Boot camo at Miami Beach,Fl. then Gettysburg College
Pa.,then Pre-flight Maxwell Field, Alabama, Avon Park,Fl. flying
PT-17,Lakeland Fl. flying PT-17 then Cockran Field Georgia flying
AT-6. One day coming back from practicing acrobatics ( as any
Glen Miller fan would do) I turned my radio off, and flew back
to the air field singing, landed on concrete run-way and parked
on the ramp. Sounds OK but the tower was trying to get me on
the radio,and flashing the red light for me to land on the black-
top run-way. A week later a Capt. took me up for check ride
then a Major took me up. The major said I did OK but they had
too many pilots. This was January 1945. I was sent to Chanute
Field ,Illinois and one night I was told to bring my barracks bag
to thr office. A Wac said your going to Texas for infantry training.
It was not too bad since I found out the Air Corp. sending
some 40,000 cadets there too. Cadets the Air Corp. promised
college kids the moon. I ended up in the Philippine Islands and
Taegu,Korea . If you want to see how cadets were treated try
http://scottfield.homestead.com/index.html

[MORTARDUDE]

my mechanic is about 77 years old. He was in WW2 and was in pilot training also. He said they marched them all out one day and told them that not enough pilots had been killed and they didn't need them anymore. He then became a mechanic. He got out and went to Ole Miss and got a law degree. He went to work for a law firm in Memphis, and was sitting in the lobby talking a couple out of getting a divorce, and the head cheese jumped all over him. He knew then that wasn't for him. Has been fixing cars since 1949...
A fine Christian man with a million stories and as honest as the day is long......If you ever need a car fixed in Memphis, look up Walls Automotive..Mr. John Walls..

Larry

[cadetat6]

It would be interesting to hearyour mechanics story
as a cadet. What Air Fields did he go to
Art <papa@twmi.rr.com>