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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Sponsor

Honored by:
Elliott Meisel Esq.

STUART MOAK (April 8,1924-December 4, 2002) enlisted in the Air Force in 1942 while studying engineering at Cornell University. He went to Dickenson Junior College, Williamsport, PA for college training detachment; followed by Nashville, TN for classification; Maxwell Field for preflight; Souther Field and Americus, GA for primary in PT-17s; Greenwood, MS, for basic in BT-13s and Napier Field, Dothan, AL for advanced training in AT6s. He took P-40 transition training at Napier; Blackstone, VA for basic P-47 RTU; P-47 Gunnery at Norfolk, VA, and then went overseas.

Stuart started operational flights with the 313th Squadron of the 50th Group at A-96 near Toul-Ochey in France. He wound up flying off Y-90 at Giebelstadt, Germany on the strip formerly used by ME-262's. He flew 79 missions and stayed with the squadron through the redeployment trip home for R & R and out to LaJunta, CO where, with the 358th, his 50th Group was to combine into a super group under then Col. Fred Gray, a past president of the Jug Pilots Association. There he was to train in Ns and go to Okinawa, but the war ended, and he returned to civilian life. Stuart was a Founder and President of the P47 Thunderbolt (Jug) Pilots Association from 1972 to 1974.
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