"Muggsie" McGinnis, Army Nurse Corps, and they got married. He had a case of malaria, but while "in hospital", he met Lt. after VE Day for reassignment and was released from Active Duty after VJ Day. He was transferred to the 12th AAF, Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Forces as a captain. Sqdn, XII Tactical Air Command, and completed 93 missions. He served in Italy with the 111th Tactical Recon. He went overseas in July '43 to the Mediterranean Theater. He trained in P-40s and P-51s in Florida and Louisianna with the 54th Fighter Group, just back from the Aleutians. Hargis in Marianna - He praised God for them and those who gave the check rides! His instructors were O'Rear Treadway F/O Taylor - RAF type at Gunter Field, and Lt. Graduated as 2nd Lieutenant, Rated Pilot. Primary was at Douglas, Ga (O’Rear Treadaway was his instructor), Basic at Gunter Field, Advanced at Marianna Fla. He went to Maxwell Field for "classification" and Preflight. (See History of Aviation: From its Beginnings to the War on Terror by James Williams, pp. Bowler, at age 40, was the old man of the detachment. Helicopter award, an honor it bestowed to a pilot annually until 1960. The following year, Bell gave Bowler its first Mr. Records of the Bell Helicopter Co., which manufactured early H-13s in Niagara Falls, N.Y., credit Bowler for evacuating 824 wounded soldiers (more than half of the detachments 1,506) between Jan. It was the first Army helicopter unit to go into action in Korea. Making a combat glider landing."ĭuring the Korean War, the Armys 2nd Helicopter Detachment flew MEDEVAC missions rescued hundreds of wounded soldiers with its H-13 helicopters. "There is a book entitled “War Stories” By Bart Hagernan That contains a short story about Flight Officer “Cannonball” Bowler. Strategic Air Force Base in England and received a Brief orientation course to help him adjust to a life in a combat zone. Bowler of Tumbling Run, Schuylkill County recently arrived at A U.S. Glider Pilot Learns The Ropes, Pottsville Journal:
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