Crisp County GaArchives News.....LT. LEO C. MERCER BEGINS NEW COURSE AT MAXWELL FIELD June 27, 1943 ************************************************ 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 September 8, 2012, 1:41 pm CORDELE DISPATCH June 27, 1943 MAXWELL FIELD , ALA. JUNE 27 AMONG THOSE NOW BEGINNING A NINE WEEKS PILOT TRAINING COURSE ON FOUR ENGINE LIBERATOR BOMBERS HERE IS 2ND LT. LEO C. MERCER, OF CORDELE,GA. LT MERCER WAS HANDPICKED BY ARMY AIR FORCE EXPERTS AS HAVING THOSE QUALITIES NEEDED TO BECOME A COMMANDER OF FOUR ENGINED BATTLE-CRAFT, AND HIS TRAINING WILL BE AS COMPLETE AND THROUGH AS THE AAF CAN MAKE IT ON COMPLETION OF THE COURSE HERE, HE WILL RECEIVE FURTHER TRAINING WITHIN THE AAF TRAINING COMMAND. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/newspapers/ltleocme3193nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb