2nd Air Division
Division
In December 1944, the 2nd Bomb Division was redesginated the 2nd Air Division.
Military
Hermione Beaber was a New Yorker who served with the Women's Army Corps in England, assigned to the 2nd Air Division Headquarters.
She had grown up in the Bronx, the child of Isidore and Anna Beaber, who had settled there after moving to the United States from Poland and Austria respectively. Isidore ran Beaber's Fur Shop, 'established in the Bronx since 1900', as its adverts proudly proclaimed.
Hermione went to college and was working as an interior decorator prior to enlisting.
After the war she returned to New York and at some point married David Denker. They raised their son John in Huntington Station, New York. David died in 1986, Hermione in 2002.
Division
In December 1944, the 2nd Bomb Division was redesginated the 2nd Air Division.
Misc
Military site : non-airfield
300-400 US servicemen were housed in Nissen huts built in what is now woodland next to the Hall.
At one time home to Team Lotus (Formula 1); currently privately owned with a memorial in the grounds.
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | New York, NY, USA | 6 August 1918 |
Lived in | Montgomery Ave, Bronx, NY 10453, USA | 1930 |
At the time of the census |
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Lived in | Macombs Rd, Bronx, NY, USA | 1940 |
At the time of the census |
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Enlisted | New York, NY, USA | 10 February 1943 |
3 years of college |
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Lived in | Huntington Station, NY 11746, USA | 2002 |
Died | 12 December 2002 | |
Buried | East Farmingdale, NY, USA | |
At Mount Ararat Cemetery |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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03 May 2017 10:57:46 | Lucy May | Changes to service number, biography and events |
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NARA enlistment record: https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=all&tf=... 1920, 1930 and 1940 census available via Ancestry.com https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=79434294 http://ensemble.nypl.org/transcriptions/514a36520f7ca62c33000037 |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:13:01 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Listing from E. Cohen |