Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....COX, NEEDHAM November 14, WWII U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE ************************************************ 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 August 6, 2011, 12:20 pm PILOT TRAINING JACKSON,MISS. AVATION CADET NEEDHAM COX ,FORMERLY OF CORDELE,GA.,BEGAN HIS PILOT TRAINING TODAY WITH A NEW CLASS AT THE 82ND ARMY AIR FORCES FLYING TRAINING DPARTMENT HERE. REPORTING HERE FROM MAXWELL FIELD,ALABAMA,WHERE HE UNDERWENT TWO MONTHS OF ARDUOUS TOUGHENING -UP EXCERCISES AND STUDY AT THE ARMY AIR FORCES PRE-FLIGHT SCHOOL PILOT AVIATION CADET COX SAT AT THE CONTROLLS OF AN ARMY SHIP FOR THE FIRST TIME ,EMBARKING ON THE SECOND PHASE OF A TRAINING PROGRAM WHICH WILL MAKE HIM A MEMBER OF THE WORLD'S BEST TRAINED AIR FORCE. THE 82ND ARMY AIRFOTCE TRAINING DETACHMENT IS A CIVIL CONTRACT PRIMARY SCHOOL LOCATED JUST OUTSIDE OF JACKSON IN THE HEART OF MISSISSIPPI. CIVILIAN FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS, MANY OF THEM ''BARNSTORMERS'' IN THE YOUTH OF AVIATION AND ALL OF THEM VETERANS OF MANY HOURS IN THE AIR,AND DOING THE ACTUAL INSTRUCTION UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF ARMY FKYINF OFFICERS. AVIAION CADET COX IS THE SON OF MR AND MRS CHARLIE N COX OF CORDELE,GA. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/other/cox1505mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb