ALGONA YOUTH TO GET WINGS AS A CO-PILOT
Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., Aug. 2—Pvt. Virgil T. Roethler will be graduated next Sunday from the AAF training command’s B-24 Liberator bomber co-pilot school here, after completing an intensive five weeks course in four-engine aircraft flying and technical training. He is the son of Mrs. Veronica Roethler, Cresco twp., Algona, Ia.
The Keesler co-pilot school represents a new phase of training within the army air forces, wherein the men who will fly heavy bombardment aircraft have been given technical knowledge of plane and practice in emergency procedures along with their flying training.
Accompanying Roethler on flying training missions were students of the B-24 Liberator bomber mechanics course, who were taken into the air to practice the duties of the aerial engineer, a phase of training in the flight procedures branch.
Source: Kossuth County Advance, August 3, 1944
