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Like Prince, I am a "formerly known as", originally Buckboard. I closed my Buckboard account and set up shop as Reedmalloy. It's a long, boring story why, and anyone with wiki knowledge can track it down if they so wish.

However, according to this, my combined totals of edits as of 25 Aug 2010 1 Dec 2010 is 40,424 43,298, placing me 644th 600th among wikipedians. (that doesn't include the hundreds or more of edits made before I remember to log in)

I am a member of several projects, but only to preserve knowledge. The self-congratulatory climate in which we as a society have moved, most notable in journalism, education, and the media, nauseates me and I refuse to participate. Moreover, far too many of those who do participate view their barnstars and other goodies as justification for violating the rules of this encyclopedia, to wit: "don't touch my article" and "Consensus? We ain't got no consensus. We don't need no consensus. I don't have to show you any stinking consensus!" Oh, a Senior editor! And a Platinum star. Impressive...except for that rip-off of the Medal of Honor ribbon...

However, I suppose that none of that is any worse than using "X∞ number of total posts" to justify high-handedness.

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The Airborne Warfare Barnstar
To Reedmalloy, for his extraordinarily hard work editing, maintaining and generally helping out on articles about airborne warfare. Skinny87 (talk) 16:27, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Places I've resided, chronologically

And other nations I've visited:

Thanx to Ndunruh for the idea.

U.S. Air Force

articles

Created for Military history WikiProject (73)

Haywood S. Hansell (GA) | Interception of the Rex (GA) | Vermont Garrison | Robert Olds | Phu Cat Air Base Security Forces | 357th Fighter Group | 91st Bomb Group | 456th Bombardment Group | 9th Operations Group | Attack on the Sui-ho Dam | American airborne landings in Normandy | Leland T. Kennedy | Harrison Thyng | Fred J. Christensen | Edgar S. Gorrell | Frank A. Armstrong | Frederick Castle | Thomas W. Steed | Sy Bartlett | Beirne Lay, Jr. | Thomas DeWitt Milling | Paul W. Beck | Harris Hull | Bert Stiles | Archibald Mathies | Walter E. Truemper | Darrell Lindsey | Horace Meek Hickam | IX Troop Carrier Command | Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps | Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps | Division of Military Aeronautics | Army Air Force School of Applied Tactics | RAF Bassingbourn | Bruning Army Airfield | Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission | Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States | MB-3A | Burgess H | Burgess Company | Necessary Evil (B-29) | Jabit III (B-29) | Full House (B-29) | Up An' Atom (B-29) | Laggin' Dragon (B-29) | Big Stink (B-29) | Some Punkins (B-29) | Top Secret (B-29) | Next Objective (B-29) | Strange Cargo (B-29) | Luke the Spook (B-29) | Silverplate | Pumpkin bomb | Bombardment group | USAAF unit identification aircraft markings | Combat box | Tokyo tanks | Class A airfield | Citizens Military Training Camp | U.S. Air Force aeronautical rating | Zeppelin Staaken R.VI | Martin NBS-1 | Organization of the U.S. Army Air Service in 1925 | Organization of the Air Service of the American Expeditionary Force |


Battle of Pork Chop Hill | Cambodian Campaign | I Field Force, Vietnam | II Field Force, Vietnam | XXIV Corps | U.S. 199th Light Infantry Brigade | Daniel D. Schoonover | USS PC-1168 | Order of battle for the American airborne landings in Normandy | Mission Albany | Mission Boston | Alexander Baumann (aeronautical engineer) |

Created for WikiProject College football (7)

Ohio State Buckeyes football | History of Ohio State Buckeyes football | John Wilce | Buckeye Battle Cry | Across the Field | Rex Kern | Woody Hayes Athletic Center |

Otherwise created (9)

Thomas Magnum | City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder | The New Centurions (novel) | Line score | You're in the Navy Now | The Hunters (novel) | The Just and the Unjust | The Secrets of Harry Bright (novel) | Victory (University of Dayton Fight Song) |

Created with another editor (1)

Chain Lightning (film), with Bzuk |

"Blame Me"s (80 rewrites)

Robin Olds (GA) | Lewis H. Brereton | Frank P. Lahm | Henry H. Arnold | MC-130 Combat Talon | The Hump | Operation Ivory Coast | Far East Air Force (United States) | 38th Bombardment Group | Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star | Question Mark (airplane) | Gabby Gabreski | Air Mail Scandal | Air Corps Tactical School | History of the Swiss Air Force (GA) | United States Army Air Forces | Air Service, United States Army | United States Army Air Corps | 509th Composite Group | 56th Fighter Group | 1st Operations Group | 53d Weather Reconnaissance Squadron | Nicole Malachowski | James Robinson Risner | Richard E. Nugent | Lester J. Maitland | Jacksel M. Broughton | Richard Stephen Ritchie | Leo K. Thorsness | Robert S. Johnson | Russell Maughan | Robert K. Morgan | Jay Zeamer, Jr. | Bud Day | William H. Tunner | Leon Vance | Demas Craw | Pierpont M. Hamilton | 1st Reconnaissance Squadron | 42d Attack Squadron | Thunderbird (B-17) | Straight Flush (B-29) | The Great Artiste (B-29) | Air Force Cross (United States) | Bockscar | EC-121 shootdown incident | Air Force Association | Ohio Air National Guard | Operation Bolero | Project Alberta | Mission Chicago | Mission Elmira | Battle of Carentan | Operation Pierce Arrow | Operation Flaming Dart | Operation Credible Sport | P-1 Hawk | P-6 Hawk | Boeing Model 15 | Burgess Model I | YB-40 Flying Fortress | Origin of USAF wings | Randolph Air Force Base | McCook Field | Wright Field | Thunderbird Field | United States aircraft production during World War II | Thud Ridge |

Marine Raiders | Command Decision (play) | History of the aircraft carrier#UN carrier operations in the Korean War | History of the aircraft carrier#U.S. carrier operations in Southeast Asia | Operation Cartwheel | James E. Swett | 2006 Ohio State Buckeyes football team | James Gould Cozzens | William Wister Haines | Lucas Davenport | Battle of Newtown | Battle of Palmito Ranch |

Collaborations (77)

Billy Mitchell | John C. Morgan | Charles W. Sweeney | Chuck Yeager | Joseph Sarnoski | Karl W. Richter | Robert Michael White | Ira C. Eaker | Glenn Miller | Clark Gable | Erwin R. Bleckley | Frank Luke | Ralph Cheli | United States Air Force | History of the United States Air Force | 23rd Fighter Group | U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds | Wright Model B | Shoo Shoo Baby (B-17) | Memphis Belle (B-17) | Enola Gay | Bomber Mafia | Doolittle Raid | Operation Bolo | Operation Linebacker | Operation Linebacker II | Aircraft losses of the Vietnam War | Death of Isoroku Yamamoto/Operation Vengeance ???????????? | Berlin Blockade | Rockwell Field | Wright-Patterson Air Force Base | Al Dhafra Air Base | Biggs Army Airfield | RAF Leiston | Curtiss Falcon | Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star | Boeing RC-135 | B-2 Spirit | B-32 Dominator | P-26 Peashooter | Stinson Vigilant | Escuadrón 201 | Combat air patrol | No. 2 Squadron RAF | List of United States Airmen | Operation Eagle Claw | United States Air Force Security Forces | The U.S. Air Force (song) |


Buster Posey | 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes football team | Battle of Stony Point | Sullivan Expedition | Mayagüez incident | Yankee Station | History of submarines#United States | Box score (baseball) | Magnum, P.I. | Battle of the Little Big Horn | Wounded Knee massacre | Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth | The Choirboys (novel) | Paul Brown | Medal of Honor (FA)| Jefferson J. DeBlanc | David McCampbell | Mitsubishi F1M | James Salter | Man's Search for Meaning | Guard of Honor | Madison, Indiana | Mike Krukow | Tim Lincecum | Battle of Normandy | Operation Market Garden | Philip Orin Parmelee | List of United States Navy ships present at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 | Philippines Campaign (1941–42) | Rorke's Drift | Angels of Bataan | Waco Aircraft Company |

And films of all sorts (24)

Bombardier (film) | The Story of G.I. Joe | Thunder Birds (1942 film) | The Dawn Patrol (1938 film) | Command Decision (film) | Captain from Castile | Twelve O'Clock High | Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress | Two Flags West | The Adventures of Robin Hood (film) | Captains of the Clouds | Strategic Air Command (film) | The Red Shoes (film) | Night People (1954 film) | The Scarlet Coat | Safety Last! | To Live and Die in L.A. (film) | Slattery's Hurricane | Crash Dive | I Live in Grosvenor Square | The Way to the Stars | It Happened on Fifth Avenue | The Bells Go Down | Kind Hearts and Coronets | Air Force (film) |

Other major contributions

Memphis Belle (B-17); B-17 Flying Fortress; F-86 Sabre; P-51 Mustang; P-47 Thunderbolt; SR-71 Blackbird; F-4 Phantom II; F-16 Fighting Falcon; F-15 Eagle; F-22 Raptor; 1st Fighter Wing; 306th Flying Training Group; Red Flag (USAF); Nissen hut; RAF Alconbury; RAF Thurleigh; RAF Bovingdon; RAF Podington; Kimbolton Airfield; RAF Raydon; Curtis E. Lemay; Paul Tibbets; Walker 'Bud' Mahurin; Boleslaw Gladych; Hubert Zemke; David C. Schilling; Richard Bong; Joseph Kittinger; Morris R. Jeppson; Jack Ridley; Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Frederick Ashworth; Wendover Air Force Base; Fat Man; National Museum of the United States Air Force; de Havilland Mosquito; H2X radar; Bombing of Tokyo in World War II; 2nd Bomb Wing; Tuskegee Airmen; 332nd Fighter Group; Freeman Field Mutiny; Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base; Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base; Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base; Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base; Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base; Operation Rolling Thunder; Pease Air Force Base; Cannon Air Force Base: Plattsburgh Air Force Base; Pathfinder (RAF); H2X radar; Nine-O-Nine (B-17); United States Air Force Memorial; List of Famous Airmen;

Ernie Pyle; Submarine; U.S. Army Combat Arms Regimental System; 1st Cavalry Division (United States); Devil's Brigade; Sioux; USS Trout (SS-202); National Lampoon's Animal House; Tin Cup; Office Space; Major League (film);Full Metal Jacket; The Devil's Brigade; Sands of Iwo Jima; Bullitt; Stalag 17; Bobby Jones: A Stroke of Genius; The Bedford Incident; Lakota; Battle of the Rosebud; San Francisco Giants; Monster Park; Willie Mays; Willie McCovey; Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball); Russ Hodges; Harvey Haddix; Angels Flight; Michael Connelly; Harry Bosch; Salina, Kansas; Pancho Villa Expedition; Operation Matterhorn; Bob & Tom Show; Battle of Savo Island; Battle of Kolombangara; Xenia, Ohio; Police officer; Ohio State Buckeyes; Ohio Stadium; Brutus Buckeye; National Football League; Rick Rescorla; Humbert Roque Versace; James N. Rowe; Harry Stuhldreher; Richard Thomas Shea; A-5 Vigilante; Joe Foss; A Gathering of Eagles; The African Queen; 1962 World Series; 1964 World Series; Naval Battle of Guadalcanal; Battle of Crucifix Hill; Military brat (US subculture); 2003 Fiesta Bowl; Jim Tressel; Merian C. Cooper; Luke Witte; Task Force Baum; Eagle squadron; Oliver Twist; Operation Market Garden; Sir John Franklin; Battle of Normandy; Allied invasion of Italy; Continental Navy; John Adams; Makin Island raid;

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  1. ^ "28 BS fact Sheet". AFHRA. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
  2. ^ the CNN Wire Staff (July 30, 2011). "Replica of Wright brothers 1910 plane crashes in Ohio, killing 2". CNN. Retrieved July 31, 2011. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ Bartsch & Doomed, p. 20
  4. ^ Bartsch & December, p. 20
  5. ^ Bartsch & Nightmare, p. 20
  6. ^ Per the Veterans Affairs National Gravesite Locator ("National Gravesite Locator". US Department of Veterans Affairs. Retrieved May 12, 2007.) he and his wife, also a WWII veteran, are buried together in Section 14, Site 724.
  7. ^ Bernstein, Matthew (Autumn 1995). "A Tale of Three Cities: The Banning of "Scarlet Street"". Cinema Journal., pp. 27-52.
  8. ^ Frisbee, John L. (1983). "Valor: the Loneliness of Command". AIR FORCE Magazine. 66 (July). Retrieved 13 Jan 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |quotes= (help)
  9. ^ Todd Lamb, editor (2002). Ohio State Football Gameday. The Ohio State Athletics Communications Office. pp. 42–43. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  10. ^ John C. Warren (2010-12-03). "Airborne Operations in World War II, European Theater" (PDF). AFHRA (USAF).
  11. ^ Bartsch, William H. (1992). Doomed at the Start. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-679-6.
  12. ^ Robert F. Dorr (2011). Mission to Berlin: The Airmen Who Struck at the Heart of Hitler's Reich. Zenith Press. ISBN 978-0-7613-3898-8.
  13. ^ Lt.Col. John F. Shiner (1997). "The Coming of GHQ Air Force, 1925-1935, Volume I 1907-1950". In Bernard C. Nalty (ed.). Winged Shield, Winged Victory: A History of the United States Air Force. Air Force History and Museums Program. ISBN 0-16-049009-X.
  14. ^ Richard H. Campbell (2005). "Appendix E: Project Alberta". The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29's Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0786421398.

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Born(1915-10-29)October 29, 1915
DiedFebruary 14, 1994(1994-02-14) (aged 78)
AllegianceUnited States
Service / branch United States Air Force

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Sources

Air Force e-pubs

books

Battle casualties, US Army 1941-1946

Digital library copy

USAFA/AFHRA/Maurer

Baugher, Almanacs, POW-MIA & MoH bios, Code One

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AAF combat unit organizations
February 1945
Type of unit Type of aircraft Number of aircraft Number of crews Men per crew Total personnel Officers Enlisted
Very heavy bombardment group B-29 45 60 11 2,078 462 1,816
Heavy bombardment group B-17, B-24 72 96 9 - 11 2,261 465 1,796
Medium bombardment group B-25, B-26 96 96 5 - 6 1,759 393 1,386
Light bombardment group A-20, A-26 96 96 3 - 4 1,304 211 1,093
Single-engine fighter group P-40, P-47
P-51
111 - 126 108-126 1 994 183 811
Twin-engine fighter group P-38 111 - 126 108 - 126 1 1,081 183 838
Troop carrier group C-47 80 - 110 128 4 - 5 1,837 514 1,323
Combat cargo group C-46, C-47 125 150 4 883 350 533
Night fighter squadron P-61, P-70 18 36 2 - 3 288 50 238
Tactical reconnaissance squadron F-6, P-40
L-4, L-5
27 23 1 233 39 194
Photo reconnaissance squadron F-5 24 21 1 347 50 297
Combat mapping squadron F-7, F-9 18 16 8 474 77 397
SOURCE: USAF Historical Study No. 69 Development of AAF Base Facilities in the United States, 1939–1945, Chart I, p. 169.

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The sections here were dumped without discussion much less consensus from an article (by an editor who tacitly and arbitrarily implies ownership of it) app. because they do not fit conveniently in a "List" article. So, lop 'em off! I want to preserve the victim of this rudeness until I can make an article of it. Putting it back where it began would only result in an edit war.

Light infantry

The Corps of Light Infantry was a provisional unit of Washington's Main Army, following the British Army model of consolidating together the light infantry companies of the line infantry regiments during campaigns. Each corps formed at or near the beginning of a campaign, and then was dissolved as its components went into winter quarters with their parent units. The cycle was repeated during each of the five years between 1777 and 1781.

The immediate predecessor of the Corps of Light Infantry was the Provisional Rifle Corps created in early June 1777 and commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan. With 508 expert riflemen in eight companies drawn at large primarily from Pennsylvania (193), Virginia (163), and Maryland (65), the Provisional Rifle Corps performed many of the duties of light infantry. It saw action during the British retreat from Brunswick, New Jersey, on June 22, and scouted for Howe's movements towards Philadelphia. Unlike the corps of light infantry to follow, it remained a semi-permanent organization, fighting in the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth, after which it was reduced to three companies commanded by Captain Thomas Posey. He was replaced by Major James Parr, and they accompanied the 1779 Sullivan Expedition before their enlistments expired. During that campaign, Sullivan formed a battalion of light infantry from a dismounted troop of the 2nd Continental Light Dragoons, two light infantry companies of New Yorkers, and one from New Hampshire.

The five light infantry organizations of the Continental Main Army were:

1777: The Corps of Light Infantry on the British model was implemented to replace the Provisional Rifle Corps, which was detached as reinforcements to Gates during the Saratoga Campaign. The first corps of light infantry was formed on August 28, 1777, commanded by Brig-Gen William Maxwell. Because the Continental Army did not yet authorize permanent light infantry companies, provisional companies were formed from drafts of 100 men chosen from each of the ten brigades present in the field. Maxwell's Light Infantry formed the advanced skirmish line at the Battle of Brandywine, and was brigaded as a reserve with Maxwell's regular New Jersey Brigade during the Battle of Germantown. In December 1777, the corps was disbanded.

1778: The second light infantry corps was formed on June 24, 1778, after British forces abandoned Philadelphia, to harry their line of retreat and to bring them to battle when Washington pursued. It was commanded by Brig-Gen Charles Scott, and like Maxwell's corps the previous year, drafted provisional companies to fill its ranks. Scott's Light Infantry fought at the Battle of Monmouth.

1779: Permanent light infantry companies were made a part of each line regiment in 1779. They were grouped as the Corps of Light Infantry on June 12, with Brig-Gen Anthony Wayne taking command July 11, and stormed the fortified British position at Stony Point, New York four nights later. Serving until December 5, 1779, the corps was organized into four regiments of two battalions each, totaling 1,350 men:

1780: On August 1, 1780, at Springfield, New Jersey, the Corps of Light Infantry was again formed, and on August 7 assigned to the command of the Marquis de LaFayette in the Light Division. At his own expense, Lafayette improved and standardized a distinctive uniform for the light infantry, including swords, espontoons, brass belt buckles and cap plates, and red-and-black plumed hats (later switched for plumed leather helmets). The corps was broken up on November 27, 1780. Numbering 2,000 men, it had six battalions organized as two brigades:

1781: On February 17, 1781, the corps was reassembled under LaFayette at Peekskill, New York, and sent to oppose Cornwallis in Virginia. With reductions in the size of the regulars, the corps consisted of three battalions, with an approximate strength of 1,200:

  • Vose's Battalion (Col. Joseph Vose, 1st Massachusetts Regiment: eight Massachusetts companies);
  • Gimat's Battalion (Lt-Col Gimat: five Connecticut, two Massachusetts, and the Rhode Island company);
  • Barber's Battalion (Lt-Col Francis Barber, 1st New Jersey Regiment: two New Jersey, two New Hampshire, and the Canadian Regiment's company).

An additional corps of light infantry, amounting to 400 men, was created on June 24, 1781, in New York by forming provisional light infantry companies, five from Connecticut, four from Massachusetts, and one from New Hampshire. Commanded by Col. Alexander Scammel, it seized Dobbs Ferry, New York and was the vanguard of Washington's march to Yorktown, Virginia in August.

Uniting at Williamsburg, Virginia, on September 24, 1781, both corps were organized again into Lafayette's Light Division of two brigades to lead the advance of the army to Yorktown. The first brigade, commanded by Brig-Gen Peter Muhlenberg, consisted of the regular corps of Vose's, Gimat's, and Barber's battalions. The second brigade, commanded by Brig-Gen Moses Hazen, consisted of Scammel's provisional corps and a battalion formed under the command of Lt-Col Alexander Hamilton from the two light infantry companies of the New York Line. The Canadian Regiment filled out Hazen's brigade. When Scammel was killed in action on October 1, the light infantry companies of the second brigade were reorganized into two battalions, the first consisting of the New Hampshire and five Connecticut provisional companies (commanded by Lt-Col John Laurens), and the second of the New York companies and the four Massachusetts provisionals (commanded by Hamilton).

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Air Service markings

Distinguished Service Cross
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Distinguished Service Medal (with oak leaf cluster)
Silver Star
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Legion of Merit (with oak leaf cluster)
Distinguished Flying Cross
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Purple Heart
Meritorious Service Medal
Air Medal
Mexican Service Medal
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World War I Victory Medal with three battle stars
American Defense Service Medal
American Campaign Medal
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Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Silver star
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European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with six battle stars

  World War II Victory Medal

  Knight Grand Cross and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire

  Companion, Order of the Bath (CB) (Great Britain)

  Order of the Crown with palms (Belgium)

  Belgian Croix de Guerre, with palm

  Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor (France)

  Officer of the Legion of Honor (France)

  Chevalier of the Legion of Honor (France)

  Order of Merito Cristo (Portugal)

  Royal Order of George I (Greece)

  Croix de Guerre with Palm (France)

Ribbon  Commander's Cross (Krzyż Komandorski), Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)

  Grand Officer, Order of Albert (Belgium)

  Grand Officer, Order of Orange-Nassau with crossed swords (Netherlands)

  Order of Suvorov (Soviet Union)

  Combat Observer

Awards and decorations

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Air Force Cross (w/ oak leaf cluster) Silver Star
Distinguished Flying Cross (w/ oak leaf cluster) Meritorious Service Medal (three awards) Air Medal (w/ five oak leaf clusters)
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (with Combat "V" for Valor) Air Force Outstanding Unit Award National Defense Service Medal (two awards)
Vietnam Service Medal (w/ three campaign stars) Air Force Longevity Service Award (w/ six oak leaf clusters) Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

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O'Mara

Oliver Edward O'Mara, Jr.
Buried
AllegianceUnited States of America
Service / branch United States Air Force
Years of service1942-1946 1953-1970
Rank Colonel
Battles / warsVietnam War
Awards Air Force Cross
Silver Star
Distinguished Flying Cross (2)
Meritorious Service Medal (3)
Air Medal (6)


[[Category:1925 births [[Category:2008 deaths [[Category:American military personnel of the Vietnam War [[Category:Recipients of US Air Force Cross [[Category:Recipients of US Distinguished Flying Cross

Oliver O’Mara died July 1, 2008, in Santa Fe, N.M., at 86. An Air Force veteran, Mr. O’Mara had served as a pilot in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Upon graduating in 1943 as a flight officer fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps, he flew P-51 Mustangs, Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks and P-47 Thunderbolts on Saipan and Iwo Jima; completing 32 missions during World War II, Mr. O’Mara was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, the Purple Heart, and two Battle Stars—one for Air Offensive Japan and the other for the Battle of Iwo Jima. Following graduation from the U.S. Air Force Helicopter School at Ellington Air Force Base, Texas, in 1953, he served as a rescue pilot over Korea, flying the Sikorsky H-19 helicopter; he was a recipient of the Sikorsky Flying “S” Rescue Award in 1955. Mr. O’Mara subsequently flew helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft at bases in Texas, Nevada, California, Florida and Japan, before volunteering for duty in Vietnam in 1965; during his military career there, he flew 128 missions—and, in 1969, was awarded the Air Force Cross. Mr. O’Mara completed his final assignment at the Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, N.M.; retiring from the military in 1970 as a lieutenant colonel, he continued working at the base for 15 years, serving as the airfield manager, through Civil Service. Mr. O’Mara had been a member of the Legion of Valor. He is survived by his wife, Ruth; two daughters; two brothers; a sister; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren

M'Mara was also RCC of JG 36 on 2-6-67 when he rescued Duane Hackney, survivor of JG 05.


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Medal of Honor
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Legion of Merit
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Meritorious Service Medal (three awards)
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Air Medal (with seven oak leaf clusters)
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Presidential Unit Citation (two awards)

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