Raymond M Hobbs
Military
'This is a picture of me in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. I was there waiting for my overseas assignment.'
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Object Number - UPL 6841 - Lieutenant Raymond M Hobbs of the 95th Bomb Group. 'This is a picture of me in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. I was there waiting for my overseas...
I flew mercy missions; one to the Hague, one to Amsterdam, and four to Utrecht, dropping food to the Dutch people. I flew a Cook's tour over part of Germany and France. At the end of the war, I flew with my group from Horam England to Bradley Field, Connecticut, where we left our plane. The B17 planes of the 95th bomb group then flown to Kingman, Arizona, where they were destroyed. I was privileged to be at the controls of Sentimental Journey in September 2011, when I was 87 years old.
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- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
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This is a picture of me in 1945 in Lincoln, Nebraska. I was there waiting for my overseas assignment. I flew mercy missions; one to the Hague, one to Amsterdam, and four to Utrecht, dropping food to the Dutch people. I flew a Cook's tour over part of Germany and France. At the end of the war, I flew with my group from Horam England to Bradley Field, Connecticut, where we left our plane. The B17 planes of the 95th bomb group then flown to Kingman, Arizona, where they were destroyed. I was privileged to be at the controls of Sentimental Journey in September 2011, when I was 87 years old.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php
