Meet 1st Lt Marvin Houston

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians. We still need donations for our October 16 flight!

Meet 1st Lt Marvin Houston
On our October 16 flight, we will be taking 1st Lt Marvin Houston. 1st Lt Houston served in the Army after graduating in ROTC from Alabama Polytechnic, now Auburn University. He served as company commander in the Army Signal Corps in Nuremberg, Germany as part of the Occupation Forces. His unit was responsible for maintaining the army's communication system in the Nuremberg area.

  

Meet Cpl Bill Patterson

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians. We still need donations for our October 16 flight!

Meet CPL Bill Patterson
On our October 10, Cpl Bill Patterson will accompany his brother, 1st Lt Jim Patterson on an Honor Flight to see the WWII memorial. Their sons will go along as their guardians. Cpl Bill Patterson, 89, served in Army Air Corp in the 8th Air Force. He primary responsibility was a weather observer in the Atlantic Theater in England and Sweden.

Meet PFC Charles Vanderbilt

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians. We still need donations for our October 16 flight!

Meet PFC Charles Vanderbilt
PFC Charles Vanderbilt, 92, served in the United States Army during WWII. He will be going on our October 10 flight. While in the Phillipine Islands, PFC Vanderbilt was on the beach when General MacArthur "returned" to the Phillipines.  He was also part of General MacArthur's island hopping forces. Following the war, PFC Vanderbilt served in the occupation of Japan.

 

Meet Col Frank "No Sweat" Jackson

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians. We still need donations for our October 16 flight!

Meet Col Frank "No Sweat" Jackson
Col Frank "No Sweat" Jackson, 91, served in the Army Air Corp during WWII. He will be traveling with us on the October 10 flight. Col Jackson flew 20 missions over Japan for the 504th Bomb Group.  The 504th Bombardment Group flew the last combat mission by the United States Army Air Forces of World War II, its last combat mission being on 15 August 1945.

  

Meet Lt JG Roy Moore

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians. We still need donations for our October 16 flight!

Meet Lt JG Roy Moore
A pilot in the USN, Lt JG Roy Moore, 88,  will be going on our October 16 flight. During WWII he flew torpedo bombers and SB2C dive bombers off of aircraft carriers. 

  

Meet 1st Lt James M. Brown

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians. We still need donations for our October 16 flight!

Meet 1st Lt James M. Brown
1st Lt James M. Brown, 94, served in the Army during WWII. He was in the 90th Infantry Division when it was hit by German artillery. During this battle, 1st Lt Brown suffered injuries that resulted in the loss of his arm. 1st Lt Brown will be going on our October 10 flight.

  

Meet HMC Otis Chasteen

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians. We still need donations for our October 16 flight!

Meet HMC Otis Chasteen
On our October 16 flight will be Hospital Medical Corpsman Otis Chasteen, 88.  In WWII, hospital corpsmen hit the beach with Marines in every battle in the Pacific. Hospital Corpsmen are frequently the only medical care-giver available in many fleet or Marine units on extended deployment. HMC Chasteen served in the Pacific Theatre aboard the USS Bandera, the USS Herald of the Morning,  and the USS Pasadena.