Hometown: Augusta, Georgia
COLLEGE: Georgia Institute of Technology ( Georgia Tech )
Flying School Class: Class 43-D Stamford, Texas
First Assignment: Member of 363rd Fighter Group June 8,1944 through August 1944
Next Assignment: Transferred to 354th Fighter Group August 1944 through February 1945
Planes flown: P- 47D , P- 51B, and P- 51D
Member of the 355th Fighter Squadron , "Pugnacious Pups"
Returned to Pinellas Airfield in February 1945 and served as Flying Instructor.
An interview, conducted under the direction of commanding officer Col. James H. Howard, with my father, Lt. Robert Lamar at Pinnellas Air Field in Florida, after his tour of duty in Europe.