This is a portrait of Dewey Hooper taken in 1942, after he had completed his flight training and been commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces at the Advanced Flying School at Turner Air Field (later Turner Air Force Base), Albany,…
Certificate showing Dewey Hooper's promotion to Corporal in the Corps of Aviation Cadets at the Southeast Air Corps Training Center, Maxwell Field, Alabama while training for the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Honorable Discharge Certificate from United States Army for Dewey Hooper, so that he could accept an officer's commission in the U.S. Army Air Force Reserve, dated August 4, 1942.
This is a pilot log book used by Dewey G. Hooper, Elon College class of 1940, showing his flight hours from January to August 1942, while he was in flight school for the U.S. Army Air Corps. The image is of just two pages of the book, dates 5-23 to…
Personnel Order No. 186, dated August 5, 1942, from the Headquarters of the Army Air Forces, War Department, Washington DC. This memo certifies that Second Lieutenant Dewey Glenn Hooper is rated as a pilot in the Army Air Forces
This photograph is of Mt. Straloch, Hitchenbrook Island, Queensland Australia. A black dot on photograph shows where the wreck site is. Mt. Straloch is located at 18 degrees, 27', 35" south (latitude) and 146 degrees, 17' east (longitude)