Marine 2nd Lieutenant Billy Meneff and 1st Lieutenant Gayle Nance

Creator

Preview

Identifier

20031079

Description

Left to right, Marine 2nd Lieutenant Billy Meneff and 1st Lieutenant Gayle Nance. Friends since the age of ten, they are home for the first time in four years. They graduated from Paschal High School. Menefee then attended and graduated from Texas A&M. He is preparing to go overseas. Nance returned from Italy after fifty-one missions as a B-17 pilot. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for going on one of the first pathfinder missions to Vienna. The men are standing shoulder to shoulder dressed in their military uniforms.

Archival Date

1945-01-04

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-327

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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License

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Subjects

Menefee, Billy (2nd Lt.); Nance, Gayle (1st Lt.); Military uniforms; Distinguished Flying Cross; Pilots; Paschal High schools; United States. Marine Corps; U.S. Army Air Forces