Thomas A Nicholas
MilitaryPersonal portrait from family connection
Tom spent the war as a celestial navigator, flying with the 329th Squadron in the 93rd Bombardment group, part of Ted’s “Travelling Circus” in the U.S. Eighth Air Force. He remained in contact throughout with his girlfriend Betty Anne Craggs, who he had met when he picked her picture out of the Idaho Falls High School yearbook as the girl he would most like to take on a date.
Tom & Betty married after the war, they settled in Buffalo, Wyoming, where Tom served for 25 years as a family doctor and where they raised their family before eventually moving back to Colorado and Lubbock, Texas to pursue opportunities in academic medicine, including a position at Texas Tech University.
The couple moved to Lakewood, Missouri, so that Tom could serve as director of the division of education at the American Academy of Family Physicians. He later accepted an appointment at UMKC School of Medicine
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: O-823974
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Iowa City, IA, USA | 19 October 1923 | |
Other Married |
Idaho Falls, ID, USA | 31 August 1947 | Married Betty Anne Craggs his high school sweetheart |
Died |
Lee’s Summit, Missouri | 30 July 2018 | |
Other College |
Caroll College, Helena, Montana | ||
Other University |
University of Wyoming |
Revisions
EP-7-21 Provisional Group Crew List
Lewis Rice Papers
466th BG Archives
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / roster