Vincent Eugene Casey This is Me

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1. 1. Vincent E. Casey

   theclan.scasey.com/vec.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/1/1993   Last Visited: 11/21/2007

   [Notes made March, 1993 for Lynn Baldi about Vincent E. Casey.
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   Vince was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in December of 1943. According to notes in his Mother's scrapbook, he came home to Evanston, Wyoming from the South Pacific "on a 30-day furlough Sept. 11, 1944." Apparently he was re-assigned while he was home (he had flown his 50 missions!) to the 329th Air Base Unit in Columbia, South Carolina, as an Instructor Pilot. He trained others to fly A-26's. He was discharged on August 25, 1945.
   
   More about the (short) time at March Field. He was stationed there, but did most of his training at Muroc, California (now Edwards AFB) He was flying B-24's there, and that unit went to Europe when they were ready. About one - maybe two - months after he got to March, he was given the opportunity to switch to B-25's, which he took. He had flown B-25's while a cadet at Roswell, and preferred them to the B-24.
   
   He was with the 41st Bomb Group, 396th Squadron (under Murray Bywater) all the time he was overseas in the South Pacific. The did low-altitude and high-altitude bombing and strafing runs against the Japanese on may South Pacific islands. He was an "Aircraft Commander," which means he was in charge of the airplane, and was it's pilot, all of the time he was over there.
   
   After he was discharged, he and Mom moved to Laramie and had you and me [Sean Cameron and Lynn Sharon]. He was a student at the University of Wyoming. In August of 1946, he joined the Wyoming Air National Guard as a pilot - still a 1st Lieutenant. I have seen (but don't have) copies of his orders. He was one of the "charter" members of the Wyoming ANG. That is, the Wyoming ANG was formed in August of 1946. Briefly, he rose through the ranks there: