Aviators

World War I Ace, credited with shooting down 5 enemy aircraft while flying a SPAD
S.XIII.

Flew 54 missions in the Grumman FM-2 Wildcat supporting the Okinawa campaign, firing thousands of rounds of ammunition, dozens of rockets, dropping several napalm bombs and several 100- pound bombs on designated enemy targets.

Started out in the RAF, transferred to the US Army Air Corps, flying 25 missions as the pilot of a B-17 bomber over Germany and ended the war as a P-51 fighter pilot.

Maury Coplan passed away May 2005

Assigned to the 8th Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 466th Bomb Group, 785th Bomb Squadron based at Attlebridge, England, he completed 16 missions in a B-24 over Europe before the war ended.

Flying a C-47, assigned to the 1st combat cargo group, 3rd combat cargo squadron, Gordon supported British and Chinese troops in China and Burma, dropping supplies from 200 feet and landing in paddy fields. He flew 390 missions accumulating 652 combat hours.

Flew three missions escorting convoys to North Africa in the TBM Avenger before being assigned to the Pacific where he participated in the attack on Formosa, survived a typhoon and help sink a Japanese battleship.

Civilian Primary Flight instructor for the U. S. Army Air Corps flying PT 17 Stearmans. Assigned to the United Air Lines modification center, flight testing B-17s and B-24s.