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training school in Ontario for a short time, and then went overseas. There he was a RCAF representative to RAF Coastal Command at Liverpool. Returned to Canada and spent two years on the North West Staging Route as Base Commander. Was transferred to Bentralia, Ontario as Officer Commanding the RCAF Instrument Flying School, from which job he departed to the AWC. His proposed assignment is to the Directorate of Organization andEstablishments at AF Hq in Ottawa. Activities include tennis, squash, swimming and poor golf. Spends a fair amount of spare time hunting and rolling cars. His wife is from British Columbia - his children are Colin (8) Hester (6) and Rocyn (3).

TURNER C. ROGERS, COLONEL, USAF, 1232A

"T.C." is a Tarheel by birth (20 Dec. 1912), but home now-a-days is wherever the wife and four boys happen to be parked. He attended Mars Hill Junior College, near Asheville, N.C. prior to entering West Point. As 2nd Lt., Inf. he entered Flying School in 1936 and came out in Oct. 37 as 2nd Lt. Air Corps, Pursuit Pilot, and husband. After a year of flying P-12s and P-26s at Wheeler Fld., T.H. he was transferred to Luke Field to fly B-18s on recon missions. Back to fighters at Selfridge Field, Mich in 1940 where he served with the 1st, 31st, and 50th Fighter Groups. Then by some trick of fate he was transferred to Washington, D.C. in May 1941 to enter the newly formed Air Defense Section of Hq, Air Force Combat Command. Since then he has served a total of 5 1/2 years in and around the Pentagon. During the war, he served in the Directorate of Air Defense, Hq, USAAF; Opns., IV Fighter Command; Opns., 4th Air Force; and Air Evaluation Board, SWPA. His proposed assignment is CO 49th Fighter Wing, FEAF, Japan. Betty, his wife, is from San Antonio, Texas, and his sons are: Don (age 11), Roc (age 8), Kim (age 4), and Von Roy (age 2).

WILLIAM L. ROGERS, COLONEL, USAF, 1060A

Bill was born December 29, 1911, and calls Rock Rapids, Iowa, his home. He attended USMA, graduating in 1934. After a hitch with the 14th Engineers in the Philippines, he went to Cornell University where he received his Master's degree, and then attended the Engineer School at Ft. Belvoir. In 1941, Bill commanded an engineer pontoon company, and at the outbreak of war was sent with the company to Panama. Returning to the States in 1943, he was given the 1141st Engineer Combat Group, which he trained and took to Europe in 1944. As a part of XIII Corps, Ninth Army, the group took part in the battles of the Rhineland and Central Europe, sweating out the Bulge with the rest of the Western Front. After the war, Bill commanded the 346th Engineer General Service Regiment in Stuttgart, Germany, and was responsible for the provision of living facilities for troops and dependents of Allied personnel in Wurttemberg, Baden. Returning to the States in 1947, Bill was assigned Director of Installations, Second (later 10th) AF, from which duty he reported to the AWC. His proposed assignment is Dir. Inst. MATS.

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