Warbird Information Exchange

I got this e-mail last week from the daughter of a WWII pilot:
Hi,

My father was James Bremner Renny, from Detroit, MI. He graduated with the class 43 cadets at Blytheville as did Bill Getz.

I came to this site in hopes that I might be able to find someone who knew my Dad in flight school or later. He went to the Pacific. I know he was in New Guinea also. He became a career officer. He did not talk about his time during the war. He left the service but was recalled during the Korean War. He was stationed at Ellsworth Air Base in Rapid City, S.D. when I was young. If there is any way to get in contact with someone who knew him in flight school or during WW II, I would really like to have the opportunity to communicate with them.

I just received the leatherbound Class Roll of Class 43 G aviation cadets from my Dad's youngest brother, last month when visiting in Detroit.

Thanks in advance, if you can steer me to possible friends.

Janet Bremner (Renny) Vinje


I passed it on to my friend Bill Getz and this was his response:


Janet,

Permit me to correct one item. Your father was an Aviation Cadet in Squadron A of a twin-engine advanced flying school. There were four cadet squadrons. His title as Cadet Supply Sergeant was only part of the training and means that your father was selected among all the cadets in the squadron to hold a special position: otherwise, he trained along with all of the other cadets in the flying program. He was not in a "supply group."

Two of the cadet squadrons - I believe "C" and "D" were supposedly training to be four-engine bomber pilots. The other two squadrons of cadets, "A" and "B" were supposedly training for twin-engine attack bombers. When we graduated on 28 July 1943 and received our silver wings and gold bars, ALL CADETS were given orders to report to four-engine bomber training - except one lonely cadet who was sent off to become a co-pilot in a four-engine bomber. I do not know what four-engine school your father went to. I was sent to Smyrna, TN to train as a B-24 pilot.

Hope this helps.

Bill Getz



I was hoping someone here could help her out with finding information about what her father did in WWII.
I don't know how to research this kind of stuff and my 6th grade homework is hard enough already!

Thanks!

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IF she has her fathers SSN# or Service number, she could look it up on the Military records site and request a copy of his service records.

Not finding much on the internet.

Only reference I could find for a James B. Renny concerned a landing accident involving AT-6D #42-85350 at/near one of Lubbock AAF auxiliary fields (probably Abernathy).

Click the link and scroll down to 450711 (July 11, 1945).

http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/ ... l1945S.htm


Happy hunting.

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