Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....STRIPLING, PVT ALBERT H 1944 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 June 27, 2011, 3:37 pm PVT A.H. STRIPLING AERIAL GUNNERS WINGS PANAMA CITY,FL -PFC ALBERT H STRIPLING HAS RECEIVED HIS AERIALGUNNER'S WINGS FROM THE ARMY AIR FORCES FLEXIABLE GUNNERY SCHOOL AT TYNDALL THE LARGEST SCHOOL OF ITS KIND IN THE ARMY AIR FORCES TRAINING COMMAND. UPON HIS GRADUATION ,THE SOLDIER IS QUALIFIED TO TAKE HIS PLACE AS A MEMBER OF THE COMBAT CREWOF AN AAF BOMBER. AT THE GUNNERY SCHOOL ,HE WAS TRAINRD IN THE OPERATIONOF .30 AND.50 CALIBRE MACHINE GUNS, FIRST ON GROUND RANGES AND LATER IN TE AIR, LEARNING BY SIMULATED AERIAL BATTLE CONDITIONS HOW TO BLAST ENEMY FIGHTER PLANES FROM THE SKY. AS AN AERIAL GUNNER, HE WILL JOIN THOUSANDS OF HIS ''TEAM-- MATES OF THE SKY,'' CARRYING THE ATTACK TO THE ENEMY IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD AS GUARDIANS OF AMERICA'S HEAVY AND MEDIUM BOMBERS. HE IS THE SON OF MR AND MRS D.M STRIPLING, WHO RESIDE AT CORDELE,GA. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/military/ww2/other/striplin1382mt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb