Thomas A Nicholas

Military
media-52442.jpeg UPL 52442 Thomas Arthur Nicholas

Personal portrait from family connection

Object Number - UPL 52442 - Thomas Arthur Nicholas

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

The insignia of the 93rd Bomb Group.
  • 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

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

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College

Caroll College, Helena, Montana

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University

University of Wyoming

Revisions

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ContributorEmily
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Sources
Date
Contributor466thHistorian
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Sources

EP-7-21 Provisional Group Crew List
Lewis Rice Papers
466th BG Archives

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / roster

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