Floyd Charles Gammon

Military
Technical Sergeant Floyd C. Cammon and Sergeant James H. Adams of the 20th Fighter Group at work on a P-38 Lightning at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - some of them already experienced in the other theatres of war - and ground crews swe media-376973.jpg FRE 79 Technical Sergeant Floyd C. Cammon and Sergeant James H. Adams of the 20th Fighter Group at work on a P-38 Lightning at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - some of them already experienced in the other theatres of war - and ground crews swear by their ships. From briefing room to flying line, from runways to skyways and contest with the enemy, each mission represents expert planning by Operations and Intelligence and the brains and sweat of every man who prepares an order or tightens a screw on a prop. Photo shows:- T/Sgt. Floyd C. Cammon, Covington, Okla and Sgt. James H. Adams, Dallas, Texas, checking bombs. U.S. Pool/SG/H. Keystone 50a.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 79 - Technical Sergeant Floyd C. Cammon and Sergeant James H. Adams of the 20th Fighter Group at work on a P-38 Lightning at Kings Cliffe air base,...

Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. ETD





Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.



Post war: Remained in USAF, served in Korea. Following his discharge he worked for Northrop and Serv Air.

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Event Location Date Description

Born

Marietta, OK 5 February 1918 Son of Chester Fields and Floy [Wolf] Gammon.

Enlisted

Oklahoma City, OK 19 October 1945 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Other

Marriage

Fort Scott, AR 4 August 1946 Married Hazel Schrimsher 4-Aug-46, in Fort Scott, Arkansas.

Died

Enid, OK 3 May 2006

Buried

Memorial Park Cemetery Enid, Garfield County, OK 6 May 2006 Memorial Park Cemetery Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma

Based

Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF.

Enlisted

Other

Discharged USAF

Honourable discharge.

Other

Discharged USAAF

Honourable discharge.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / King's Cliffe Memorial Edition

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Technical Sergeant Floyd C. Cammon and Sergeant James H. Adams of the 20th Fighter Group at work on a P-38 Lightning at Kings Cliffe air base, October 1943. Printed caption attached to print: 'Lightnings Attack Northern France. Versatile P-38 Lightnings, flashing their power across the English Channel for the first time in a combat role, bring new serial phase into the European Theatre of Operations. Well-trained pilots - some of them already experienced in the other theatres of war - and ground crews swe

Object number: FRE 79 - Technical Sergeant Floyd C. Cammon and Sergeant...