Final Approach: SAAF-AFS Stuttgart, Arkansas

U.S. Army Air Forces

Published by U.S. Army Air Forces, Stuttgart, Arkansas, 1944

Yearbook-style commemorative volume from the Stuttgart Army Air Field flight training base. Contains photographs, rosters, and aviation history from WWII pilot cadets. Classmates signed book inside cover, book is nice, tight and clean, Photo on front cover is missing. Notable class graduates who became heroes for this action with two killed in action, two German prisoners of war and two had notable post WWI civilian careers. 1. Capt. Lytle W. Shumake - Later a B-17 pilot with the 525th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. His aircraft was shot down on 24 Feb 1944 near Melchow, Germany; he and his crew were killed in action. 2. 1st Lt George A. Draut - Also as editor-in-chief on "The Final Approach" page). Later a B-24 pilot in the 15th Air Force Awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in aerial operations in the Mediterranean Theater. His bomber was shot down in 1944; he survived as a prisoner of war until liberation in 1945. 3. 2nd Lt Leo M. Wierzbowski - Later a bombardier with the 301st Bomb Group, 352nd Squadron Received the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters for repeated combat missions with the 15th Air Force. 4. 2nd Lt Harold W. Helfrich - He became a B-24 pilot with the 459th Bomb Group, 756th Squadron; his page at the Army Air Corps Museum explicitly includes a "Class Roll Cadet Class 43-H". His aircraft was shot down over Europe in 1944; he spent the rest of the war as a German POW, later receiving the Prisoner of War Medal. After the war he had a notable academic career in environmental policy, editing books such as The Environmental Crisis and Agenda for Survival. 5. 2nd Lt Robert E. Quisenberry - Co-pilot with the 725th Bomb Squadron, 451st Bomb Group, who was killed in action in Italy during WWII. 6. Julian H. L. Wolfsohn - Named on the "Final Approach" credits as Lieutenant Julian H. L. Wolfsohn, photographic officer. After the war, Julian H. L. Wolfsohn turns up in U.S. records as a linguist and later a staff member in the CIA s language or translation offices, and as a U.S. importer associated with Swiss model railways. Seller Inventory # C913U2

Bibliographic Details

Title: Final Approach: SAAF-AFS Stuttgart, Arkansas
Publisher: U.S. Army Air Forces, Stuttgart, Arkansas
Publication Date: 1944
Condition: Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)