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
IN UNIFORM
RADIO OPERATOR.
In order to pursue a course of study as a radio operator on a C-46, largest two engined cargo plane in the world, Cpl. James N. Rhodes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Rhodes of this city, has been placed on flying status at the Reno army air base, ferry division installation, according to a dispatch to the Freeman-Journal from the public relations office at Reno. This assignment will require regular participation in aerial flight.
As a radio operator, Corporal Rhodes will be responsible for all aerial communication on a C-46, which has proved the most dependable and capacious ship for the carrying of military personnel and vital war cargoes in the interest of the air transport command.
Source: Daily Freeman Journal, June 13, 1945
James Neville Rhodes was born Aug. 14, 1921 to Richard M. and Wynnie Grace Zitterell Rhodes. He died Feb. 14, 1991 and is buried in Town of Maine Cemetery, Park Ridge, IL.
Source: ancestry.com
