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USAF Pilot Training Class 52-G
Spence AB, GA

No class book was prepared by the 52-G students at Spence.   The following text was written by Otha H. "Skeet" Vaughan, Jr. to describe some of the history: This information has been developed to provide information to the members of the USAF 52-G Pilot Class who began their initial pilot training at Spence AB, Moultrie, GA. in October 1951, either as a cadet or a student officer, and completed their training and/or went on to other assignments in the USAF. The training was under a government contract with Hawthorne Aviation of Charleston, S.C. and administered by members of the 3302nd Training Sq. USAF. The training aircraft used was the North American AT-6G for this first phase of the training. After 6 months of ground school and flying training, the students and/or student officers, who had previously attended college and earned their commission through the USAF ROTC program, were then assigned either to fighters, bombers, and/or transport aircraft. After this last phase was completed the cadets became officers and received their pilot wings and the student officers also received their wings. Each person who had now completed their training was then assigned to an operational squadron for further training.  The groups of photographs below are numbered from left to right.  Click on any small "thumbnail" picture to expand it.  Then use your browser's "Back" button to return to this page.

Photos below are courtesy of Hawthorne Aviation

1.  Remote control vehicles at Sunset Field (Auxiliary).
2.  Spence AB barracks before refurbishment in 1951.
3.  Spence AB barracks after refurbishment
4.  Spence Tower
5.  Beverly E. Howard, the president of the Hawthorne School of Aeronautics with his Buecker Jungmeister Aircraft.  

 

Richard Geiger, F. Michiels, Ray Arnold, Ray Pugh, and Roy Henry Photo courtesy of Ray Arnold

Photos below are courtesy of John Haisty

Help us to identify the classmates in the photographs below.
If you see a familiar face, please send e-mail to Otha "Skeet" Vaughan.

Photo courtesy of Mac C. Wilson

Photo courtesy of Mac C. Wilson

Flight A-1  Photo courtesy of Rush Floyd

Flight A-2  Photo courtesy of Roy Henry

Names for the people in the photographs were supplied by 
Charles Westpfahl, Guy Knowles. John Haisty, Roy Henry, RushFloyd, Mac A. Wilson,
 and Instructors Ray Arnold and Charlie Havill

A-1 students - left to right First Row  1. Charles Russell 2. Uril B. Alford 3. Fred Pickette 4. B.K.S. Weng  (Denmark) 5. O.J.H Simonsen  (Denmark) 6. Sam Bourne 7.? Kelly (instructor) 8. Bill Voss 9. Charles Frew 10. Archie Shaw 11. Robert Strobach 12. Philip M. Willer 13. John P. Everage 14. Higgason 15. Mac A. Wilson,  16. Gary Wright 17. John Wall Second Row  18. Don M. Wittevrongel 19. Don H.Rahn 20. Davies 21. Mike Brunell  (Belgium) 22. Thomas J. Squires 23. Russell S. Lewis 24. William F. Morrison 25. Paul G. Stockman 26. Wallace D. Worman 27. Dean Methfessel 28. Gilbert H. van Driessche  (Belgium) 29. Donald L.Olsen 30. Robert P.Knopf 31. Leif D. Willadsen  (Denmark) 32. Richard B. Kemper 33. Julian A.J. Debyser  (Belgium) 34. John R. Stowe 35. Joseph C. Fielder 36. John Corbet 37. Jacques E.S.Florin  (Belgium) 38. Kenneth E.Partenfelder 39. E dward F.Gehrek 40. Charles L. Westpfahl 41. John J. Droecher 42. Robert Niklas 43. Rush Floyd 44. Ed Smith 45. Eugene Aldrige 46. William White,  47. Dewey Durrett. Third Row: Instructors, Linemen and or Dispatchers Poole or Kelly Oscar Wiley (Assistant Flight Commander) Harold Strutz  D. K. Barton Douglas  Lee Albright  (Dispatcher) Walter Worthy Robert Burris Brax Batson Harold Aukerman Lee Bradbury Curt Hall C. Dave Hackney (Flight Commander) Jim Green

A-2 students - left to right First Row 1. Tom Gilbert 2. Guy Knowles  3. Ray Pugh 4. R.C. Walker 5. Al Fulford 6. Joel Perry 7. John Schulze 8. R.S. Steiner 9. William Mossep 10. Roy Henry 11. C.N Adkins 12. Claude F.J. Blanchy 13. Joe Savicz 14. Edward D. Edgmon 15. K.Wilson 16. Charles Doak 17. Kermit E. Keeley 18. Gerardus W. Deggens 19. David Williams 20. David Geffen 21. Robert Mc Dermott  Second Row 22. R.R. Scmemaket 23. Fred Lange 24. Henry Goffaux 25. Ejgil Hansen 26. Gerait Barkhnis 27. Ed Vierheilig 28. C.R. Dubose 29. Ron Cox 30. Norris Yeates 31. Ernest Webster 32. Cornelis Hulleman 33. Herbert Totten 34. Haelterman 35. James Boucek 36. L. A. Mays 37. Richard A. Gieger 38. Leon Hadermann 39. William Barber 40. Fernand F.B. Michiels 41. James Nix 42. Mike Adams 43. Philip A. Miller 44. Age Mieduma 45. Gene Merrill 46. John Haisty 47. Robert H. Neitz 48. William E. Tonge 49. V. Passiglia Jr.  Third Row:  Instructors Richard Clark Ray Arnold Alfred Currie John Hipp Max Lewis (Dispatcher) Fay Daughtery (Flight Commander) Ted Cossairt Charlie Havill Gerald Carter (Assistant Flight Commander) Jim Lundy Gene Baugh Robert Jenkins Tom Maxwell Bill Bouard Walter J Dunnigan John J. Wiejkus

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