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Story Archives: Reunion this weekend for Selman vets


Reunion this weekend for Selman vets
posted Thursday, April 30th, 2009 @ 11:20 amE-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
The Selman Field Historical Association will hold its 15th reunion from May 1-4 at the Holiday Inn and Suites in Monroe.

Veterans who served at Selman Field in Monroe during World War II will be returning to visit the site of their old base and to visit with their comrades of this time. This is to be the last Selman Field Historical Association scheduled reunion for these veterans.

As part of the reunion, a program entitled "The Heroes of Selman Field" will be presented for the community, free of charge at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 1, in the New Orleans Room of The Holiday Inn and Suites on Hwy. 165 in Monroe. This presentation will feature three men, featured in Chapter Three, The Missions, of Dr. Richard Chardkoff's recently published book, "World War II Aerial Navigation Training and The Flyboy Heroes of Selman Field," who will speak on their World War II experiences. These men are Theodore Homdrom, the author of Mission Memories: World War II, Maurice Alston and John McCarter Jr.

Filming of this presentation will be made and the footage of this event will be used to make a documentary that will later be distributed to schools, libraries and museums.

The program will provide an increasingly rare opportunity for the northeast Louisiana community to see and hear World War II veterans who trained at Selman Field in Monroe, Louisiana. Selman Field was the only complete navigational training facility for the Army Air Corps at the time, and produced 15,000 navigators who in turn, guided approximately 1/3 of the medium and heavy bombers that flew during WWII.

Other activities of the Reunion include a motorcade in antique cars to the Biedenharn Coke Museum and the Chennault Aviation Museum, an appearance by Rosie the Riveter, Mrs. Ethel Kelly, entertainment by the Hodge Singers and Gary Brown, renowned jazz musician.
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