Howard Baker
Howard D. Baker, 74, of Winter Park, FL. died Monday Dec. 19, 1988 in the Rosemont Health Center in Orlando, Florida.
He was born in Lowndes, MO., Son of Lester & May "Shipman" Baker. He was an Aircraft mechanic at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul and a member of the College Park Baptist Church. He married Barbara E. Butts and she survives.
Funeral services for the former Sullivan resident will be held at 10:a.m. Thursday in the College Park Baptist Church in Orlando. Burial will be in Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, FL.
Copied by Dorothy Butt - from files of
Moultrie Co. Historical & Genealogical center.
NOTE: Howard D. Baker was a former rural Sullivan resident, a faithful member, & Deacon, of Oak Grove Baptist Church, located west of Sullivan, in the community of Dunn.
Sullivan Flier Decorated With
Distinguished Flying Cross:
Corp. Howard D. Baker, west of Sullivan, member of the crew of an army transport plane, is one of more than 200 pilots and crew members of General Douglas McArthur's bombers, fighters and transport planes who received decorations for "extraordinary achievement" in numerous missions which have helped drive back the Japanese in the Southwest Pacific.
The awards were made by Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, commander of Allied air force in the Southwst Pacific.
Citation for bomber pilots and crew members said:
"For extrsordinary achievement while participating in 50 (or 200 hours of) operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific during which hostile contact was probable and expected. Throughout these operations, outstanding courage, ability and devotion to duty were demonstrated."
The pursuit pilots were cited for participating in 50 operational flight missions. These operations included escorting bombers and transport aircraft interception and attack missions, and patrol and reconnaissance flights. The citations said strafing and bombing attacks were made from dangerously low altitudes, destroying and damaging enemy installations and equipment."
The transport pilots and crew members likewise were decorated for haaving taken part in 50 missions.
These operations consisted of dropping supplies and transporting troops to advanced positions, flying at low altitudes over mountainous terrain under adverse weather and often necessitated landing within a few miles of enemy bases on improvised airfields, the citation said.
copied from local Sullivan newspaper
Submitted by - Dorothy Butt
Military Information: SSGT, US AIR FORCE
Howard D. Baker, 74, of Winter Park, FL. died Monday Dec. 19, 1988 in the Rosemont Health Center in Orlando, Florida.
He was born in Lowndes, MO., Son of Lester & May "Shipman" Baker. He was an Aircraft mechanic at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul and a member of the College Park Baptist Church. He married Barbara E. Butts and she survives.
Funeral services for the former Sullivan resident will be held at 10:a.m. Thursday in the College Park Baptist Church in Orlando. Burial will be in Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, FL.
Copied by Dorothy Butt - from files of
Moultrie Co. Historical & Genealogical center.
NOTE: Howard D. Baker was a former rural Sullivan resident, a faithful member, & Deacon, of Oak Grove Baptist Church, located west of Sullivan, in the community of Dunn.
Sullivan Flier Decorated With
Distinguished Flying Cross:
Corp. Howard D. Baker, west of Sullivan, member of the crew of an army transport plane, is one of more than 200 pilots and crew members of General Douglas McArthur's bombers, fighters and transport planes who received decorations for "extraordinary achievement" in numerous missions which have helped drive back the Japanese in the Southwest Pacific.
The awards were made by Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, commander of Allied air force in the Southwst Pacific.
Citation for bomber pilots and crew members said:
"For extrsordinary achievement while participating in 50 (or 200 hours of) operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific during which hostile contact was probable and expected. Throughout these operations, outstanding courage, ability and devotion to duty were demonstrated."
The pursuit pilots were cited for participating in 50 operational flight missions. These operations included escorting bombers and transport aircraft interception and attack missions, and patrol and reconnaissance flights. The citations said strafing and bombing attacks were made from dangerously low altitudes, destroying and damaging enemy installations and equipment."
The transport pilots and crew members likewise were decorated for haaving taken part in 50 missions.
These operations consisted of dropping supplies and transporting troops to advanced positions, flying at low altitudes over mountainous terrain under adverse weather and often necessitated landing within a few miles of enemy bases on improvised airfields, the citation said.
copied from local Sullivan newspaper
Submitted by - Dorothy Butt
Military Information: SSGT, US AIR FORCE
Howard Baker
Howard D. Baker, 74, of Winter Park, FL. died Monday Dec. 19, 1988 in the Rosemont Health Center in Orlando, Florida.
He was born in Lowndes, MO., Son of Lester & May "Shipman" Baker. He was an Aircraft mechanic at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul and a member of the College Park Baptist Church. He married Barbara E. Butts and she survives.
Funeral services for the former Sullivan resident will be held at 10:a.m. Thursday in the College Park Baptist Church in Orlando. Burial will be in Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, FL.
Copied by Dorothy Butt - from files of
Moultrie Co. Historical & Genealogical center.
NOTE: Howard D. Baker was a former rural Sullivan resident, a faithful member, & Deacon, of Oak Grove Baptist Church, located west of Sullivan, in the community of Dunn.
Sullivan Flier Decorated With
Distinguished Flying Cross:
Corp. Howard D. Baker, west of Sullivan, member of the crew of an army transport plane, is one of more than 200 pilots and crew members of General Douglas McArthur's bombers, fighters and transport planes who received decorations for "extraordinary achievement" in numerous missions which have helped drive back the Japanese in the Southwest Pacific.
The awards were made by Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, commander of Allied air force in the Southwst Pacific.
Citation for bomber pilots and crew members said:
"For extrsordinary achievement while participating in 50 (or 200 hours of) operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific during which hostile contact was probable and expected. Throughout these operations, outstanding courage, ability and devotion to duty were demonstrated."
The pursuit pilots were cited for participating in 50 operational flight missions. These operations included escorting bombers and transport aircraft interception and attack missions, and patrol and reconnaissance flights. The citations said strafing and bombing attacks were made from dangerously low altitudes, destroying and damaging enemy installations and equipment."
The transport pilots and crew members likewise were decorated for haaving taken part in 50 missions.
These operations consisted of dropping supplies and transporting troops to advanced positions, flying at low altitudes over mountainous terrain under adverse weather and often necessitated landing within a few miles of enemy bases on improvised airfields, the citation said.
copied from local Sullivan newspaper
Submitted by - Dorothy Butt
Military Information: SSGT, US AIR FORCE
Howard D. Baker, 74, of Winter Park, FL. died Monday Dec. 19, 1988 in the Rosemont Health Center in Orlando, Florida.
He was born in Lowndes, MO., Son of Lester & May "Shipman" Baker. He was an Aircraft mechanic at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul and a member of the College Park Baptist Church. He married Barbara E. Butts and she survives.
Funeral services for the former Sullivan resident will be held at 10:a.m. Thursday in the College Park Baptist Church in Orlando. Burial will be in Florida National Cemetery in Bushnell, FL.
Copied by Dorothy Butt - from files of
Moultrie Co. Historical & Genealogical center.
NOTE: Howard D. Baker was a former rural Sullivan resident, a faithful member, & Deacon, of Oak Grove Baptist Church, located west of Sullivan, in the community of Dunn.
Sullivan Flier Decorated With
Distinguished Flying Cross:
Corp. Howard D. Baker, west of Sullivan, member of the crew of an army transport plane, is one of more than 200 pilots and crew members of General Douglas McArthur's bombers, fighters and transport planes who received decorations for "extraordinary achievement" in numerous missions which have helped drive back the Japanese in the Southwest Pacific.
The awards were made by Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, commander of Allied air force in the Southwst Pacific.
Citation for bomber pilots and crew members said:
"For extrsordinary achievement while participating in 50 (or 200 hours of) operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific during which hostile contact was probable and expected. Throughout these operations, outstanding courage, ability and devotion to duty were demonstrated."
The pursuit pilots were cited for participating in 50 operational flight missions. These operations included escorting bombers and transport aircraft interception and attack missions, and patrol and reconnaissance flights. The citations said strafing and bombing attacks were made from dangerously low altitudes, destroying and damaging enemy installations and equipment."
The transport pilots and crew members likewise were decorated for haaving taken part in 50 missions.
These operations consisted of dropping supplies and transporting troops to advanced positions, flying at low altitudes over mountainous terrain under adverse weather and often necessitated landing within a few miles of enemy bases on improvised airfields, the citation said.
copied from local Sullivan newspaper
Submitted by - Dorothy Butt
Military Information: SSGT, US AIR FORCE
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