Blue Skies
Funerals for PFC John W Hayes (World War II) and SGT George R. Schipani (Korea)
This April, DPAA announced that it had accounted for PFC John W. Hayes, US Army. PFC Hayes was lost in Belgium on 4 January 1945. PFC Hayes will be buried next week – on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 – in Memphis, Tennessee. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for his […]
Jim “Peewee” Martin Takes One More Jump Into Normandy
WWII 101st Airborne paratrooper Jim “Peewee” Martin makes a repeat jump into Normandy at the tender age of 93. You can either sit on it and wither away to nothing, or you can be like Peewee here. It ain’t over ’til he says it’s over. Granted, it was done in 2014 on the 70th anniversary […]
Funerals for SGT Cread E. Shuey and S2c Richard J. Thomson (World War II)
This March, DPAA announced that it had accounted for SGT Cread E. Shuey, US Army. SGT Shuey was lost in the Philippines on 27 September 1942. SGT Shuey will be buried later this week – on Thursday, 30 May 2019, in Tucson, Arizona. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for […]
That’s All, Brother Returns
Restored C-47 in Flight – Photo credit: Airwolfhound The lead C-47 troop carrier That’s All, Brother was at the head of the fleet of planes flying into Normandy on D-Day, to drop paratroopers into the area ahead of the landing parties not far behind them. That’s All, Brother, originally piloted by the late Lt. Col. […]
Funeral for SSgt. Carl M. Shaffer (World War II)
During February 2019, DPAA announced that it had accounted for SSgt. Carl M. Shaffer, US Army Air Forces. (SSgt. Shaffer was accounted for by DPAA on 27 December 2018, but his name was apparently “slipstreamed” onto DPAA’s Recently Accounted For listing on 25 February 2019.) SSgt. Shaffer was lost on Tarawa on 21 January 1944. […]
Sunday Humor
In 2017, a Navy flight crew roared into legend when they drew a giant phallus in the sky with the contrails of their jet, assuming it would quickly blow away. It did not. Now, Navy Times has obtained the transcript of the conversation that led to the ‘sky dong.’ Mason has taken a break from […]
B-52 resurrected from the Boneyard
Col. Robert Burgess, 307th Operations Group commander, gives a thumbs up after flying a B-52 Stratofortress, nicknamed “Wise Guy,” to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, May 14. The bomber had been at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, since 2008. It took a team of reserve and active duty airmen […]
Funeral for CPLs John G. Krebs and Carlos E. Ferguson (Korean War)
Last December, DPAA announced that it had accounted for CPL John G. Krebs, US Army. CPL Krebs was lost in South Korea on 11 July 1950. CPL Krebs will be buried later this week – on Friday, 17 May 2019, in Sterling, Illinois. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for […]
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