Individuals marked with a red dot are direct ancestors of Robert Lynn Craycroft
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Thompson, William Raymond (b. , d. ?)

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Source: (Birth field)
Title: Oral history via Geoffrey Durward Clayton Craycroft

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Source: (Name field)
Title: Oral history via Geoffrey Durward Clayton Craycroft

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Source: (Name field)
Title: Oral history via Geoffrey Durward Clayton Craycroft

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Source: (Name field)
Title: Oral history via Geoffrey Durward Clayton Craycroft

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Source: (Name field)
Title: Oral history via Geoffrey Durward Clayton Craycroft

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Occupation: Place: U.S. Air Force, pilot

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Note: According to an e-mail I received from Harriett Craycroft Low on March 27, 2002, Chuck flew C-47's and C-54's in Japan. He finished his service flying jets at Laredo Air Force Base in Laredo, Texas.

According to Mark L. Morgan, "Air Force Bases: 1946-1987," AAHS Journal 32 (Winter 1987) and Robert Mueller, Air Force Bases, Vol. 1 (Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Simpson Historical Research Center, 1982). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin:

Laredo Air Force Base, formerly Laredo Army Air Field, was on U.S. highways 59 and 81 near Laredo in Webb County. Laredo Army Air Field began operations as a World War II military installation in November 1942; it included a gunnery range and flexible gunnery school. The field became inactive in late 1945, and the property reverted to the city of Laredo, which used it as a municipal airport in 1950. The base was reactivated and renamed Laredo Air Force Base in April 1952 to provide basic flight training for jet pilots, including pilot trainees from twenty-four countries. It was closed permanently in 1973.

I received an e-mail from Harriett on April 3, 2002, where she tells me that Chuck had thousands of hours in the B-23. He flew the last one to Chanute AFB, Rantoul, Illinois, for static display there.