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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Friend
Honored by:
A. Daniel De Foe
Dean Willard enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1943 and received his pilot wings in January 1944. His brother Rush Willard -- a P-47 pilot like Dean -- had died in 1943 when the Air Corps plane in which he was a passenger crashed en route from Florida to Virginia.
Considering this, the Air Corps assigned Dean as an instructor at the Oscoda Army Air Field, MI. After a year as instructor, Dean volunteered for overseas duty and was killed on his first mission 14 April 1945. He crashed while strafing a German tank.
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