njal
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Yes there were probably US troops stationed at the airport here.
ex-libris What A FIND! congratulations on finding that piece of history.
Good luck on your research .Keep posting up-dates.
Yes there were probably US troops stationed at the airport here.
The plane depicted on the side of the ring is a twin seater, twin engined Beechcraft AT-10. Mostly made of wood.
Freeman AAF Museum, Jim West, webmaster. www.IndianaMilitary.org
I see references in this forum regarding a "Freeman List". Is this a Seymour, Indiana - Freeman Field Pilot list ? Where/how may I get a copy, if that is what it is ?
One the subject of WWII Army Air Corps. Take a look at this moving video. It's about 15 minutes long but well worth watching.
http://www.wimp.com/warfootage/
One the subject of WWII Army Air Corps. Take a look at this moving video. It's about 15 minutes long but well worth watching.
http://www.wimp.com/warfootage/
One the subject of WWII Army Air Corps. Take a look at this moving video. It's about 15 minutes long but well worth watching.
http://www.wimp.com/warfootage/
The hallmark is a bit hard to read...for all of us, can you transcribe it to the site?
Freeman Field (AAF) was a twin-engine flight school at Seymour, Indiana. Each of the hundreds of cadet graduates could purchase the ring in the Exchange. The plane depicted on the side is a two-seater AT-10 Beechcraft, made mostly of wood.
Freeman Field, after the close of WW2, and for one short year was the depository for captured enemy planes. Some were flown to Freeman, or brought over on ships. German, Japanese, Italian, British and Experimental American planes were once here. All were restored and evaluated and either passed on to Wright-Patterson AB, Columbus, Ohio, or to the various museums. Most of the planes you see in these museums that carry "FE" on the tail (Foreign Evaluation) were originally at Freeman.
Visit www.IndianaMilitary.org for the official website for the Freeman Air Museum and many other Bases and posts in South Central Indiana.
Jim West, Webmaster