YoungMedic
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I went to an estate sale the other day on some typewriter hunting and stumbled upon these two flight suits which were not advertised at the sale. After I saw the first I began to scour a large library of books looking for any information I could find on the owner. A happened to catch the attention of a neighbor who gave me the owners name and I was able to find his obituary from 2009. I wasnt expecting to buy these but I wanted to save them from a goodwill or trash bin. Also I figured I might post them here and gain more info or knowledge about the flight suits.
Aurthur Thames Boone enlisted in the Army on January 22, 1942. He was accepted into the Army Air Corps and, after attending tactical training schools, went into combat in the 7th Air Force which took him to Midway and ended his tour at the battle of Tarawa. He served in the Pacific Theatre as a B-24 navigator based on the Island of Funafuti during the early years of the war where he survived the bombing and strafing of the island. After his tour in the Seventh Air Force, he attended flight school and was sent as a pilot to join the 305th Bomber Group of the Eighth Air Force flying B-17s in Europe. Overall he completed sixty-six missions and received numerous commendations including the Air Medal w/ 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, and American, Pacific, and European campaign medals with a total of 9 bronze battle stars. After the war ended, he took a position as personal pilot to General Ira A. Eaker, the Deputy Commanding General of the Air Force. He left active duty as a Captain and returned to the University of Florida College of Law, graduating with honors. He was a member of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity and Theta Chi fraternity. While in Gainesville, he met his future wife, Doris Lamb, a music student at Florida State College for Women. They married in 1947 after her graduation. He practiced law in Jacksonville for fifty seven years but also remained active in the Air Force Reserve, retiring with the rank of Colonel in 1980.
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Aurthur Thames Boone enlisted in the Army on January 22, 1942. He was accepted into the Army Air Corps and, after attending tactical training schools, went into combat in the 7th Air Force which took him to Midway and ended his tour at the battle of Tarawa. He served in the Pacific Theatre as a B-24 navigator based on the Island of Funafuti during the early years of the war where he survived the bombing and strafing of the island. After his tour in the Seventh Air Force, he attended flight school and was sent as a pilot to join the 305th Bomber Group of the Eighth Air Force flying B-17s in Europe. Overall he completed sixty-six missions and received numerous commendations including the Air Medal w/ 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, and American, Pacific, and European campaign medals with a total of 9 bronze battle stars. After the war ended, he took a position as personal pilot to General Ira A. Eaker, the Deputy Commanding General of the Air Force. He left active duty as a Captain and returned to the University of Florida College of Law, graduating with honors. He was a member of Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity and Theta Chi fraternity. While in Gainesville, he met his future wife, Doris Lamb, a music student at Florida State College for Women. They married in 1947 after her graduation. He practiced law in Jacksonville for fifty seven years but also remained active in the Air Force Reserve, retiring with the rank of Colonel in 1980.
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