My Father
Julian Everette Willis
Born: October 5, 1919 Died: June 13, 1995
by Randy Willis
http://www.randywillis.org
randywillis@ev1.net
34 152 091 Technical Sergeant
52nd Air Engineer Squadron
330th Air Services Group
Daddy fought in W.W.II., in the U.S. Army Air Forces (Also
affectionately referred to as the Army Air Corps. The separated Air
Force was established in 1947), and was on Iwo Jima at he end of the
war. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps October 14, 1941, at Camp
Shelby, Mississippi and served until November 22, 1945.
His first cousin, Robert K. "Bobby" Willis Jr., was the first casualty
from Rapides Parish, Louisiana in World War II. The American Legion
Post in Pineville, Louisiana (his last hometown) was named the Robert
K. "Bobby" Willis Jr. Post in honor of his service and duty to his
country. (This American Legion Post no longer exists). He is entombed
in the USS Arizona at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. He was the first
casualty from Rapides Parish, Louisiana in World War II.
