Walter A Carey
MilitaryAssociated to Walter A Carey - surname and role are a match with the hand-written caption. Possibility that the initial was misread from the slide.
Doc Carey was well-regarded by 360th Fighter Squadron pilots. Ed Nebinger remembered Doc Carey as good natured and recalled that at the squadron's VE Day party he 'dug into his liberally guarded supply of mission whiskey, and was applying it liberally to all wounds, real and imagined, while many bottles of Scotch and assorted other booze appeared magically from other sources.'
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Revisions
'Lady Doreen' by Edward M Nebinger, a memoir of his wartime experiences as a fighter pilot with the 356th Fighter Group, published in 2013. Quote is from page 323.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roster from ESCORT The 356th Fighter Group Over Europe 1943-1945 by Kent D. Miller