8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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William Delanson Cooley
Military
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Corporal William Delanson Cooley.
Toward the end of the war he was given an unusual assignment, to build a conference table 24'x4'. After completing the table, he was to 'Black ' out the room where the table was placed. When he finished he was whisked away on a 3 day pass to London. Upon his return, he learned that his table was used for a top secret meeting that included, Gen Eisenhower, British Field Marshall Montgomery and General George Patton
Awards: WWII Victory, Good Conduct, American Campaign, EAME.
Service
Units served with
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21st Air Depot Group
Group
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21st Depot Repair Squadron
Squadron
Associated Place
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Hitcham
Military site : non-airfield
Prior to the move of the 4th Stategic Air Depot to Hitcham in April 1944, this station number had been associated with Wattisham. Exact location unknown.
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Salem, Alabama | 29 December 1922 |
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Son of thomas Delanson and Gillie Lee [Britton] Cooley. |
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| Lived in | Lee County, AL, USA | 1942 |
| Enlisted | 1023 Fort McClellan, Anniston, AL 36205, USA | 11 January 1943 |
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Fort McClellan |
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| Died | Columbus, GA, USA | 23 January 2003 |
| Buried | 3800 US-431, Phenix City, AL 36867, USA | February 2003 |
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Lakeview Memory Gardens Phenix City |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 05 January 2018 20:23:27 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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Expanded Awards. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:27:50 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / son |
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