Comments on: Some great comments http://buchenwaldflyboy.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/some-great-comments/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:52:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jim R C Baker http://buchenwaldflyboy.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/some-great-comments/#comment-192 Jim R C Baker Mon, 25 May 2009 17:09:18 +0000 http://buchenwaldflyboy.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-192 Hello, my dad - Horace Sumner Corbett Jr (Jim) - flew the P-38 as a USAAF photographer. He shipped out of Orlando in the late summer of 1943 just before I was born. In early 1944, he was killed retuning from a raid of a German Messeschmidt airplane factory in Germany. The sky as filled with clouds when he was hit and parachuted. The Resistance found him. His commanding officer notified my mother in March of 1943. My own family visited the beautiful Allied Cemetery in Netuno, Italy in the 1970's, where we found his grave and laid flowers. I recognized the distinctive P-38 in The Seattle Times Sunday front page photo from the 12" silver-platted model he received as an award while in training. Thank you so very much for your wartime service and beyond. My warm regards, Jim ____ Jim R C Baker, retired university instructor 206 784-8896 http://jrcbaker.wordpress.com Hello, my dad – Horace Sumner Corbett Jr (Jim) – flew the P-38 as a USAAF photographer. He shipped out of Orlando in the late summer of 1943 just before I was born. In early 1944, he was killed retuning from a raid of a German Messeschmidt airplane factory in Germany. The sky as filled with clouds when he was hit and parachuted. The Resistance found him. His commanding officer notified my mother in March of 1943. My own family visited the beautiful Allied Cemetery in Netuno, Italy in the 1970’s, where we found his grave and laid flowers.

I recognized the distinctive P-38 in The Seattle Times Sunday front page photo from the 12″ silver-platted model he received as an award while in training.

Thank you so very much for your wartime service and beyond.

My warm regards,

Jim
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Jim R C Baker, retired university instructor
206 784-8896
http://jrcbaker.wordpress.com

]]> By: carol matas http://buchenwaldflyboy.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/some-great-comments/#comment-106 carol matas Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:43:28 +0000 http://buchenwaldflyboy.wordpress.com/?p=60#comment-106 Hi, Were there any Jewish flyers in the group of Canadians sent to Buchenwald? Carol Matas Hi,
Were there any Jewish flyers in the group of Canadians sent to Buchenwald?
Carol Matas

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