Lt. Walter T. Stewart led the 93rd Bomb Group against the Ploesti oil refineries during Operation Tidal Wave. The Ploesti raid was the most decorated mission of World War II. Stewart was born in Benjamin, Utah, in 1917. During World War II he was a B-24 pilot, flying...
Ramsay Potts, at age 26, led a bomber force during one of World War II’s most historic missions! Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Potts attended the University of North Carolina, and in 1941 graduated Phi Beta Kappa. In May, he enlisted as an aviation cadet...
James McClain was a Navigator on the B-24D “Liberator” during Operation TIDAL WAVE, a daring low-level attack on the Ploesti, Romania oil refineries on August 1st, 1943. McClain was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1923, and attended high school in Waterloo, Iowa. He...
Paul Wesley Airey Paul Wesley Airey served as the first Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force from 1967 to 1969. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, he was inspired to join the Navy because of the prestige of the US Navy Falls Shipyard in the Boston area. However,...
