Col. Maschmeyer flew as a private pilot before WW II for the Paul V. McNutt Governor of Indiana and when the Governor was named High Commissioner for the Phillipines, he flew for him then too. He was pictured at High Wycombe early in 1942 but his military record cannot be found. He was in the Korean War. He also was a professor of air science and tactics at Purdue Univ when he died at age 53 while undergoing brain surgery for a tumor at Walter Reed Hosp. High Wycombe was used by the US Army > Air Force as home of the 325th Reconnaissance Wing from 9 August 1944 > through 20 October 1945. The VIII Bomber Command Headquarters was at > the RAF Daws Hill on the other side of High Wycombe. My Dad, a > Command Bomber Pilot was assigned to one or the other because he was > at High Wycombe.



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