1940s
Wiley Albright was one of several Jackson County boys who earned their wings at the Newport Airfield. From 1942 to 1946, Wiley was a fighter pilot in the Pacific, flying off the carrier Antietam. His father owned a construction business in Newport, and after the war...
1940s
Cullus Walker was one of the pilots who won the heart of a Newport girl and returned after the war to spend his life in Jackson County. Movie-star handsome, he could have been a poster boy for the whole war effort. (Courtesy of Jackson County Historical Society,...
1940s
These are a few of the officers and men who gathered at the Newport Airfield to learn to be pilots and maintain airplanes. The sudden arrival of thousands of young men in Jackson County contributed mightily to the nightlife in a county with legalized alcohol sales and...
1940s
These are a few of the officers and men who gathered at the Newport Airfield to learn to be pilots and maintain airplanes. The sudden arrival of thousands of young men in Jackson County contributed mightily to the nightlife in a county with legalized alcohol sales and...
1940s
In November 1942, the Newport Army Airfield sprang into existence after only one year of intensive effort to clear rice fields and marshes, build barracks and training centers, and recruit potential pilots from all branches of the military services to participate in...
1940s
Descendants of Judge John Robinson, The McDonald siblings were the children of Alvin Tobe McDonald and Mary Susan Johnson McDonald. They are, from left to right, Sue McDonald Robinson, Robert Haas McDonald, Lottie McDonald McCartney, Joseph Johnson McDonald, Ralph...
