<a href="https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ray-Stocks-as-Young-Officer.jpg"><img class="wp-image-48804 alignright" src="https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Ray-Stocks-as-Young-Officer.jpg" alt="" width="311" height="350"></a>Beaufort’s Ray Stocks, 97, entered the Aviation Cadet program in 1943 in North Carolina. He became a bombardier/navigator/radar officer serving in and instructing on B-17, B-29, B-47 and B-52 aircraft during World War II, Korea and afterwards. He retired from the Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1964.

– Compiled by John Chubb, American Legion Post 9.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>

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