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P47 Pilots Biographies, Last Name Starting With "B"
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Pilot Name
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Biography Summary
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Sidney J. Bowlin
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First assignment was 327 Ftr Gp (P-47) for RTU; later to Matagorda Island gunnery school and thence to Norfolk as IP for P-47 gunnery training. Next assigned to 9 AF, 371 Ftr Gp, 405 Sqdn (P-47). Flew 56 combat missions through V.E Day from France and Germany and was awarded Air Medal w / 4 OLC's.
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Lana Cusack Boxberger
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I earned my private license in Boise, Idaho and then flew Civil Air Patrol there soon after World War II was declared. In 1943 I was accepted for the WASP training program at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, Texas. After graduating from Avenger Field my assignment took me to my home base,
Long Beach, California, flying for the Ferrying Division of the Air Transport Command.
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Leslie C. Boze
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Assigned 365th Sqdn., 358th Group, "Orange Tails," in England. Flew 193 missions in "Jugs"
from D.Day to early 1945 in France and
Germany on close support ground targets for
9th A.F. and 12th TAC. Lost five T-Bolts to
ground fire. Had two bailouts and the unusual experience of deadsticking a "Jug" with frozen engine and prop from 10,000 feet to
a wheels-down (happy) landing.
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Lowery 'Brab' Brabham
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As you know, I was pleased to do all the original testing on the P-47 and after it got in combat I visited every theater and new with the pilots to offer any help I could to improve combat effectiveness.
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J (I.O.) Cleaver Bradley
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My ninth mission was the end of P-47 flying for me, as I was hit by ground fire, crash-landed in trees (without a scratch) and spent the next 46 days touring France and Germany as a "guest" of the Germans. I covered between 350 and 400 miles on foot during this time, and on April 30th was
returned to U.S. control by the Third Division.
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Mark E. Bradley
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First served with 1st Pursuit Group, Selfridge
Field, Michigan and with 18th Group in Hawaii. 1937 Went to Wright Field to attend Air Corps Engineering School, graduating 1938. After year as test pilot in Flight Test Section, became Project Officer - P-40 airplane program,
Which began production in 1939.
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Wayne A. Brainard
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Took basic training at Coleman, Texas, Randolph
and Kelly Fields. Graduated in July, 1942 - Class 42 F. He reported for duty with the 56th Fighter Group in Windsor Locks, Conn. - going overseas with the 62nd Squad. In Jan. of'43. While in England he received 4 Air Medals and 2 D.F.C.'s.
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Stephen B. Brak
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Enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an Aviation
Cadet in May 1942. Graduated and commissioned
at Marianna, Florida Oct. 1943. After fighter training in P-47's at Perry, Florida, shipped overseas to England and assigned to the 358th Fighter Group.
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Fred V. Brandt
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Trained in P-47's at Richmond, Va.,
Dover, Del. and Atcham, England before
being assigned to 512th Fighter Sq. 406th
Fighter Group, 9th Air Force at Mourmelon,
France in Sept. 1944. He flew ground support
missions, destroying trains, trucks, tanks
artillery until 24 Feb. 1945 when debris
exploding ammo. train smashed the
canopy and put him in the hospital for 3 mo.
With eye injuries.
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Whitney W. Brayton
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After receiving his wings and commission
at Dothan, Alabama, he spent fifteen
months in the Southeast Flying Training
Command instructing at Greenville, Mississippi
and Malden, Missouri. He attended P-47 transition and gunnery School at Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia before sailing for the 397th Fighter Squadron,368th Fighter Group in Metz, France,
where he participated in 32 dive-bombing
and straffing missions before V-E Day.
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