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EARN WINGS—Those four Orange county young men today graduated from the Gulf Coast Army Air Force Training center, receiving commissions as second lieutenants and their pilots’ ! wings. Top, left to right, they are Gene Duncan, La Habra, and Albert L. Burns, Placentia; below, Wallace R. Jennings andDonald W, Oliphant, both of Santa Ana.Four Pilots FromCounty Presented iWith Army WingsAt three of the seven advanced flying schools of the Gulf Coast Air Forces Training Center, another “largest class in history”; graduated today and four pilots ifrom Orange county received their1 jsilver wings of the Army Air | Forces.j Today’s graduation marks the end of 27 weeks of thorough, intensive flight training for thisrecord class of the GCAAFTC, which includes the center one-third of the United States,Orange county youths to graduate and receive their commissions as second lieutenants in the nation’s air arm include Wallace R. Jennings, 824 North Bristol, and Donald W. Oliphant, 909 Hickory street, both of Santa Ana; Gene Duncan, 303 West Centra! avenue, La Habra; and Albert L. Burns, Route 1, Box 265-A, Placentia.Jennings and Duncan were enrolled at Moore Field, while Oliphant took his training at Ellington Field, and Burns completed ; his flight training at Brooks Field.
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Santa Ana Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Wed, Aug 05, 1942
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Daisy V.
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