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Object Name |
Binder, Ring |
Caption |
Flight Instructors manual, 1945 |
Scope & Content |
U.S. Navy Primary Flight Instructors School Manual, U.S. Naval Air Station, New Orleans, LA. Belonged to Datalaf Weseloh, father of donor Kim Weseloh. Manual & memos are dated 1945. Datlaf Albert Weseloh was born November 23, 1920, son of Martin and Albertina Schramm Weseloh. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1940. Datlaf entered active military service in the United States Navy Air Corp on September 8, 1942 at Wahpeton, ND. From then until 1944 he undertook basic flight training in a Steerman biplane and concluded his training with carrier-based take-offs and landings in a Grumman TBM Avenger on the west coast. He departed for Hawaii and Japan onboard the aircraft carrier USS Hoggatt Bay (CVE 75) as a member of squadron VC99. He saw combat action in the Battle of Okinawa. On June 10, 1944 he married Phyllis Zierke while on leave from the U.S. Navy. As a Navy pilot Weseloh was sent to Japan on relief missions dropping supplies to Allied WWII prisoners of war and he engaged in rescue work picking up Lt. Col. James F. S. Devereux, hero of Wake Island, returning him to the U.S. after four years of captivity. From 1945-1947 he was a Navy flight instructor at Pensacola, Florida and Corpus Christi, Texas, where he later received his Honorable Discharge from active duty. Datlaf was a U.S. Navy Reservist in Minneapolis from 1947-1968, where he concluded his flying experience in Grumman F9F Panther jets. Weseloh served a total of 28 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve after seven years of active duty. He retired from the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander. |
Catalog Number |
2017-0178-038 |
Search Terms |
Pilots Flight training U. S. Navy U. S. Naval Air Corps World War II |
Subjects |
Pilots Flight training World War Ii |