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Bombing Crews From Texas and Oklahoma in England
A Western Newspaper Union feature profiles U S airmen from Texas and Oklahoma based in England. It highlights Alex Owen from Tyler and Joe Shouse from Coweta, plus crew chiefs Ramon Western from Alvord Tommy Busselle and Bob Allen from Houston, and McKinney gunners Forest Board and Jimmy Ashley. The piece portrays their missions over Europe, plans after the war, and determination to defeat the Nazis.
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Texas
Oklahoma
England
Pound Hitler
Europe
Jim Swartz JR
Union
Southwest
Alex Owen
Tyler
Alex
France
Holland
Belgium
Joe Shouse
Coweta
Tulsa
Joe
Joe W. Shouse
Spartan Aircraft Company
Nissen
Air Force
Ramon Western
Alvord
Tommy Busselle
Houston
Bob Allen
Tommy
Paddy
Walt
Dewey
South Pacific
Yeoman
New Jersey
Damita
Hitler
Ramon
Damita I
John Tarleton Junior College
Stephensville
Texas A. & M. College
Bob
University of Texas
Walter Scott
Main Street
McKinney
Lone Star State
Forest
Forest C
Jimmy Ashley
Missouri
Arkansas
Tennessee
Louisiana
Mississippi
McKinney Flier
America
Great Southwest