Walter A Carey

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Captain H Carey, a flight surgeon of the 356th Fighter Group with his dog "Don". Image via Herbert Rutland, 356th Fighter Group. Written on slide casing: 'Flight Surgeon. Dog = "Don" Playard, 1945, Capt H Carey 360th FS.' media-388122.jpg FRE 6074 Captain H Carey, a flight surgeon of the 356th Fighter Group with his dog "Don". Image via Herbert Rutland, 356th Fighter Group. Written on slide casing: 'Flight Surgeon. Dog = "Don" Playard, 1945, Capt H Carey 360th FS.' Roger Freeman Collection

Associated to Walter A Carey - surname and role are a match with the hand-written caption. Possibility that the initial was misread from the slide.

Object Number - FRE 6074 - Captain H Carey, a flight surgeon of the 356th Fighter Group with his dog "Don". Image via Herbert Rutland, 356th Fighter Group. Written on slide...

Doc Carey was well-regarded by 360th Fighter Squadron pilots. Ed Nebinger remembered Doc Carey as good natured and recalled that at the squadron's VE Day party he 'dug into his liberally guarded supply of mission whiskey, and was applying it liberally to all wounds, real and imagined, while many bottles of Scotch and assorted other booze appeared magically from other sources.'

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'Lady Doreen' by Edward M Nebinger, a memoir of his wartime experiences as a fighter pilot with the 356th Fighter Group, published in 2013. Quote is from page 323.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roster from ESCORT The 356th Fighter Group Over Europe 1943-1945 by Kent D. Miller

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Captain H Carey, a flight surgeon of the 356th Fighter Group with his dog "Don". Image via Herbert Rutland, 356th Fighter Group. Written on slide casing: 'Flight Surgeon. Dog = "Don" Playard, 1945, Capt H Carey 360th FS.'

Object number: FRE 6074 - Captain H Carey, a flight surgeon of the 356th...