James Park
Soldier, Historian, Author, Teacher!
May God Bless The USA.
"James Park"
James Park was born and raised in Rockport, the youngest son of Dr. A. D Park and
Ida Smith Park. He was a 1939 Rockport High School Graduate. After graduating
from High School, he wore many hats and left the Rockport area for his entire
working career, returning to the old home place to finish his retirement years.
I am aware of bits and pieces, mostly what I have heard, of James Park's life and
especially his military life and will try to come up with a truthful and sincere
write up for his web page. If the reader discovers information that is not accurate,
please come back at me so that I can make corrections.
A war was going on when James Park graduated from high school and soon afterwards
James found himself in the Army Air Corps. After basic training and technical
school, he was sent to Europe to a Bombardier Group and became a "Gunner" assigned
to a flight crew for the relatively new Boing B-29. Up until the B-29, the earlier
Army Air Force bombers used a "Gunner", or an airman in each gun turret and these
turrets were strategically placed on each bomber where most all of the attacking
positions to the bomber were covered with defense machine guns or cannons. With
the arrival of the B-29, the guns were fired from a location in the bomber just a
little remotely from the actual gun and firing of the weapons were by remote control.
After the required successful missions of James' bomber, and after the war was over,
James decided to make the military his career and he became a career soldier.
James returned to Kentucky after his military career and then decided to go to St.
Louis to complete his education and to become a school teacher. He would be following
in the footsteps of his family as practically his entire family retired as school
teachers. James taught in the St. Louis area and then became the author of several
books. He returned to the old home place in Rockport, Ky to finish out his writing
career and complete his retirement years.
Thanks James, for your long and eventful service to our country, not only as a
soldier, but as a soldier, teacher, author, and historian.
See you..
jerry
God Bless America!
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