Men and Women In Service
Everett N. Delashmutt, son of Mr. and Mrs. D.E. Delashmutt, 1901 24th Street, has been promoted to first lieutenant at Rosencrans field, MO. He is the eldest of three brothers serving in the army air corps. He is a graduate of Central High School and of Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska. For the last year he has been an instructor and navigator. His wife is the former Sarah Shipley of Dennison, Texas. Lieut. Delashmutt enlisted August 8, 1940.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, April 12, 1944
IN UNIFORM.
First Lt. Everett N. Delashmutt, son of Mr. and Mrs. D.E. Delashmutt, 1901 24th Street, has been given the rating of master pilot on graduation from training in the airways transport command at Homestead, Florida, recently. Lt. Delashmutt volunteered to become an air student on December 8, 1941. At that time, he was a technical sergeant. He was graduated as a flight officer and pilot in October 1943, and then was put in charge of the Fifth ferry command at Love Field, Dallas, Texas. After six months, he was transferred to Rosecrans Field, Missouri, where he was an instructor and navigator. After completing 2,200 flying hours he was selected to take training in the airways, from which he has just graduated. He now fill fly supplies overseas. Lt. Delashmutt has two brothers in the air corps, CPL Richard, now in France and S. Sgt. Ronald, serving in Italy.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, February 11, 1945
