RHODES FAMILY BOASTS RECORD
Three Sons Now Engaged in Service With U. S. Air Forces.
With a third son enlisted for pre-flight training with the navy, the R. M. Rhodes family of this city now numbers three sons with the air forces of the United States—a record that few families in Iowa can match.
Paul, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes, is scheduled to leave for Maraga, Cal., in the near future where he will take a training course at St. Mary’s college preparatory to duty at Pensacola, Fla.
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Dudley Rhodes, eldest son, has been in the service for several years, and has been promoted to staff sergeant. He is with the 34th bombing squadron at Meridian, Miss. He was connected with the crew which serviced the bombers in the Tokio air raids led by Jimmy Doolittle.
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James Rhodes recently enlisted in the army air corps and is now stationed at Santa Ana, Cal. His address if A. F. R. T. C., Squadron 17, Santa Ana, Cal.
Mr. Rhodes is himself a veteran of army service having seen action duty in the first world war overseas with the Canadian army. His mother is still residing in England and wrote vivid accounts of air attacks by the Nazis when the German air superiority at first threatened to smash the British Isles.
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Youngest son in the R. M. Rhodes family, Francis Marshall ‘Dusty’ Rhodes served with the U.S. Navy in World War II and the U.S. Air Force in Korea and Vietnam.
Dusty was born Feb. 20, 1925 and died Jan. 18, 1992. He is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Leavenworth, WA.
Source: Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, IA - June 17 and 23, 1942
