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Home Town Stockton, IL
Last Address Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin Buried in: Holy Cross Cemetery, Stockton, Illinois
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Chain of Command Squadron VR-5, Adak, Alaska Attachment.
Other Memories U.S. NAVAL AIR STATION KODIAK, ALASKA CONFIDENTIAL
On 1 August 1945, Naval Air Transport Service Squadron VR-5 put into effect a revised schedule of flights to NAS Kodiak. The daily shuttle between Kodiak and Anchorage was eliminated and Kodiak was made a regular stop on the daily R4-D flights operating between Anchorage and Adak. From 1 June 1945 to 1 September 1945, Naval Air Transport Service Squadron VR-5 transported approximatley three thousand two hundred (3200) officers and enlisted men from the Hula Two project at Cold Bay, Alaska to NAS Kodiak for further transportation to Seattle, Washington. This was accomplished by approximately eighty-five(85) flights, including special flights and flag stops, on regularly scheduled flights.
