Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....WILLIAMS, LORON E. JR. 1944 WWII - Enlistment US ARMY AIR CORPS ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 April 27, 2011, 11:54 am PROMOTED TO GRADE OF STAFF SARGEANT LORON E WILLIAMS OF CORDELE,GA. SON OF DR. AND MRS. L.E. WILLIAMS JR., HAS BEEN PROMOTED TO THE GRADE OF STAFF SARGEANT FROM CORPORAL. HE IS A GUNER ON AN AAF B-17 FLYING FORTRESS. SGT. WILLIAMS IS A GRADUATE OF CORDELE HIGH SCHOOL. HE ATTENDED GORDON MILITARY COLLEGE AT BARNESVILLE IN THE FALL OF 1942.HE ENTERED THE SERVICE ON NOV.23,1943, RECEIVED HIS BASIC TRAINING AT MIAMI BEACH, FLA. AND WAS ASSIGNED TO GUNNERY SCHOOLAT KINGMAN, ARIZ. HE RECEIVED HIS GUNNERY RINGS IN MARCH OF 1944 AND LATER WAS GRADUATED FROM OPERATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL AT DYERSBURG, TENN.HE EAS ASSIGNED TO DUTY IN ENGLAND IN AUGUST OF THIS YEAR. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/enlistment/wlliamsj1140mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb