James Robert Callahan Jr
Militaryhttps://sites.google.com/site/8thafhsmn/pictures/james-r-callahan-aviation-cadet
James Robert Callahan, Jr., Aviation Cadet, Flight Engineering Training, Amarillo Field, Texas.
Before Induction: Civilian Airframe Riveter at the Curtiss Wright Aircraft plant outside St. Louis, Missouri.
Induction: Jefferson Barracks, MO.,
Testing: GCT, Army OCT-X3 (?), and IQ test
Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP program) (IQ tests 120 and above.)
Basic Training: San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center (SAACC), Texas,
College Training Detachment: Augustana College, IL. and Moline IL Airport.
Classification and Preflight School: SAACC Initially classified to become a Bombardier.
The AAF decided that it needed a lot fewer Bombardiers after Curtis LeMay instituted the "Bombing on the leader" principle using toggle switches in the following airplanes.
Later the AAF decided it needed more B-29 Flight Engineers. (4000 B-29 FEs were trained.)
On the Line Training (OLT) at Randolph Field, Texas. (Kind of an AAF "holding program" to keep aviation cadets with high test scores from being grabbed by the army infantry.)
January 1945-Aviation cadets were allowed into the B-29 Flight Engineering training program (On B-17s FEs were enlisted men. B-29 FEs were officers.)
B-29 Flight Engineering training at Amarillo Field, Texas
May have just started Advanced Training at the Cruise Control School, Hondo, Texas at the time WWII ended.
Discharged Sioux Falls Separation Center, Sioux Falls, S.D.
See also his 8th AFHS-MN webpage with photos at
https://sites.google.com/site/8thafhsmn/pictures/james-r-callahan-aviat…