Prepare For Takeoff – Aviation Cadet Warren W. White, left, of Newton, looks on as his classmate, Robert L. Thacker, 316 W. First Street, Sioux City, studies the instrument panel of his basic training plane before taking off for a practice flight over the “West Point of the air” where the two Iowans are undergoing intensive training. They soon will move to advanced schools to qualify for the silver pilot’s wings of a flying officer in the army air forces.
Sources: The Sioux City Journal, November 30, 1942 (photo included)
Warren Wesley White was born Jan. 16, 1922 to David A. and Pearl T. White. He died Apr. 14, 1944 and is buried in Newton Union Cemetery, Newton, IA.
Lt. White served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps and died while in the service of his country.
Source: ancestry.com
