This video is about eleven of those men.
The graves in the video are at Greenwood Cemetery. Every other year, the cemetery hosts a commemoration at the site on Memorial Day, the American holiday honoring war dead.
My mother says in World War II, a Canadian cousin ( a real cousin by blood) came to Fort Worth for flight training. He then went to Liberal, Kansas, for advanced training and was lost in a crash. My mother says the kids in the family first suspected Nazi sabotage, but eventually they blamed the government. Wayne washed out of pilot school and became a navigator. Mother says the kids decided it was the government’s failure to make Wayne a pilot that cost his life and the lives of his crew. Not sure which government she meant.
Tags: Camp Hicks, Canada, England, Fort Worth, Great Britain, Greenwood Cemetery, Hicks Field, Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps, United States, WWI, WWII
