Flight Lt. Brendan ‘Paddy’ Finucane, an Irishman who flew with the RAF, in the cockpit of his Spitfire at RAF Kenley, 1941 (Imperial War Museum)
75 Years Ago—July 15, 1942: Irish RAF ace Brendan “Paddy” Finucane (32 victories) is killed in action over northern France.
US Army Air Force forms Ground Observer Corps for civilian volunteers under Civilian Defense.
My grandmother was part of the Ground Observer Corps. She logged 2,500 hours from when a post was set up in her village of Birchwood, Wisconsin on October 12, 1950 through 1954. She had to relay her observations to Minneapolis, and you know phones back then were not what they are now!
During the 1950s – how fascinating!