Lt. Philip W. Bailey of Letts, son of Mrs. Mabel Bailey, who is a cadet in the army air corps. will not be graduated as a class 42E fighter-flyer with his class on May 20 (1942) because of an injury to his knee. Bailey, who is stationed at Moore Field at Mission, Texas, sprained his right knee in a fall and has been confined to the hospital for three weeks. He is recovering satisfactorily but will be unable to resume flying for several more weeks. Bailey was slated to receive his war wings as a fighter-flyer in 42E class with a group of 36 other Iowans, among a big class of cadets and students from every state in the union, at seven pilot schools. twelve of the Iowans received their training at Moore Field.

Two Articles: 1945 - Lt. Phil Bailey's Death Officially Confirmed - Mrs. Katherine B. Bailey of Letts, has received official word confirming the death of her husband, 1st Lt. Philip W. Bailey as the result of the destruction of an Italian submarine upon which he was a prisoner on Jan. 14, 1943. Lt. Bailey was an air corps pilot reported missing in action on Dec. 21, 1942 over North Africa, and later, word listed him as a prisoner of war of the Italian government. The next official word was the recent message from Maj. Gen. J. A. Ulio, the adjutant general as follows: "...It has now been officially established from reports received by the war department that information furnished you by the repatriated American officers who were with your husband at the time of his death, is accurate and that your husband was killed in action Jan. 14, 1942, in the Mediterranean Sea, between Tripoli and Tarants, Italy, as a result of the destruction of the Italian submarine upon which he was a prisoner.

Phillip Bailey, son of Mrs. Mabel Bailey of Letts, and the late George Bailey, was born May 31, 1916, at Letts. He was graduated from the Letts High School in 1933 and completed three years of animal husbandry at Iowa State College at Ames. He was employed for 16 months as a milk tester in Scott County for the Iowa Stat College Agricultural Extension Service before enlisting as an aviation cadet in the army air corps in November 1941. He received his wings and commission as second lieutenant on July 1, 1942 at Mission, Texas, and was married on July 9 to Katherine Bruntlett, of Minneapolis, Minn. Later he received additional training at Shreveport, La., and Fort Wayne, Ind., and was made first lieutenant shortly before going overseas in November 1942. He was returning form his firs mission which was teh bombing of Gabes, Africa, when forced to bail out with his crew on Dec. 31, 1942.

Lt. Bailey survived by his wife of Hyattsville, Md., his mother, Mrs. Mabel Bailey of Letts; one sister, Mrs. John La Fayette of Davenport; four brothers, Earl, Raymond and Arthur of Letts, and Lt. Lyman Bailey of the U.S. Army Air Corps now stationed on the island of Corsica.