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Here are some Air Force / Air Corps people
of interest . . .
Some
of these Air Force warriors are relatives or namesakes, eg. Hall, Monroe, Poorman, Ryan, Wertz, friends, people from
my hometown area, or just those I ran across who deserve recognition and our prayers . . . US AIR FORCE
Colonel Coira commanded
the
40th Bombardment Group in 1944 Col. Coira also commanded
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10th Air Division in 1957 |
MAJOR
GENERAL
LOUIS E. COIRA USAF
Lock Haven High 1933
Major General Louis E. Coira (Ret. 1971) served in the Pentagon when the USAF was created
in 1947. Born in Bloomsburg, General Coira went to high school with my father, Kenneth J. Poorman, in Lock Haven PA.
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Lou Coira Obit 2009
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SGT Cunio O Masorti
Castanea Pa
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SGT Cunio O Masorti
U S Army Air Forces
Sep 1942 - Nov 1945
Air Transport
Command, Buckley Field, Denver, Colorado, Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, Gore Field, Great Falls, Montana
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U S Air Force
Dec 1947 - Jul 1972
Air Force Base Unit- Reading, PA
Weaver AFB / Rapid City AFB / Ellsworth AFB, SD
(All the same location-just different names); Temporary
duty stations-Texas, England, California, Washington, Guam, Sheppard AFB, TX, Pease AFB, NH, Cam Rahn Bay, Vietnam, Holloman
AFB, NM, Spangdahlem AB, Germany
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Edward A. Dayton
Renovo, Pa. USAF
Military Police
Da Nang AB, Vietnam
1966-67
Ed was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received during a rocket attack on the Air Base at
DaNang in 1966. He retired from the Air Force in 1983 after 26 years of service. Thanks Ed! Vietnam Security Police Association, Inc. |
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Ronald J. Poorman
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Ron was with the 553rd Air Force Band
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HOWARD L. GRAVES
US Army
Air Corps
Piper Aircraft Corp
Lock Haven, PA
1917 - 2009
Carlstrom Field (92FL)
Latitude: 27°07'14"N (27.120608)
Longitude: 81°50'59"W (-81.849806)
Datum: WGS 1984
Elevation: 35 ft (11 m)
6 nautical miles
S of Arcadia, FL
Magnetic Variation: 02W (1985)
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Howard Graves Obit
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Commander - 32nd
Tactical Fighter Squadron
Soesterberg Air Base
Netherlands
1975-77
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32nd Tactical Fighter Squadron |
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Some of these Air Force warriors are relatives or namesakes, eg. Hall, Monroe, Poorman, Ryan,
Wertz, friends, people from my hometown area, or just those I ran across who deserve recognition and our prayers . .
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| COL Donald L. Poorman | 
| Commander
- 32nd
Tactical Fighter Squadron
Soesterberg Air Base
Netherlands 1975-77 |
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McElhattan PA | 
| USAF
1944-1946
WWII |
| 1934
- 2007
Lock Haven PA | 
| USAF
1952-1956
USAFR 1956-1960 |
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Norm Dion
Lock Haven PA | 
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| Nicholas "Nick" Bryon Lock Haven High 1999 Ramstein
Air Base Germany 86th
Air Wing |
George H. Hazel 1929-2006 Mill Hall High School 1947 22 Years Service USAF
| F-16 (Viper) Fighting Falcon | 
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| Lt. Col. Scott C. "Skibo" Bowen, Commander 447th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron 2006-07 |
| 447th AEG | 
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| Lt. Col. Ronald J. Babski, Jr., Commander 447th Expeditionary Operations Support Squadron 2005-06 Pittsburgh
PA Native |
I was honored to assist Colonels Babski and Bowen in a humanitarian project in 2006, along with
my fellow Knights of Columbus and our Parish.
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A2C Dennis E. Page
Beech Creek PA | 
| | USAF
1961-1965 |
| | 1370th Organizational Maintenance Squadron | 
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Air Transport Service |
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SSgt.
Philip Gerhard Mill Hall, PA | Staff Sgt. Matthew Severino Bellefonte, PA | Ray
Stevenson Mill Hall, PA |
| | Some of the above are hometown heros from Lock Haven PA, Castanea,
Flemington, Avis, Renovo, Woolrich, Howard, Jersey Shore, Williamsport, Linden, Loganton, Mill Hall, Beech Creek, North Bend,
Hall's Run, McElhattan, Bellefonte, State College, i.e. Clinton, Lycoming and Centre Counties . . . and relatives of Ken
Poorman, Hansberry, Hall, Wertz, etc. and others.
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Here are links to some of my military hero pages . . .
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