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OG-107 named to Lt.Col. William C. Redeen, USAF
Born: 17 July 1923, Whitefish Bay (Milwaukee), Wisconsin
Died: 9 November 1996, Reston, Virginia
Lt.Col. Redeen (front row, third from left), a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, flew A-1 Skyraiders and F-105s. Interestingly on his 1942 draft registration card he listed his civilian occupation as "Actor."
In my research I found that Col. Redeen was a FAC in Korea so he might have been attached to the 187th Airborne RCT. I enlarged the group pic and could detect a smaller badge below his wings on the nametag of his flight jacket which corresponds to the shirt.
That would make sense. AF personnel assigned to Army Airborne outfits would have to get jump qualified. I thought it could be that, or he had started off as a Paratrooper in the Army and later transferred to the AF and learned to fly airplanes.
OG-107 named to Lt.Col. William C. Redeen, USAF
Born: 17 July 1923, Whitefish Bay (Milwaukee), Wisconsin
Died: 9 November 1996, Reston, Virginia
Lt.Col. Redeen (front row, third from left), a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, flew A-1 Skyraiders and F-105s. Interestingly on his 1942 draft registration card he listed his civilian occupation as "Actor."
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