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44. Miami, OK: Final Resting Place for 15 British Training Pilots 1s2d1l
13/10/2021
13/10/2021
During the early days of WWII, the Route 66 community of Miami welcomed over 2000 British...
During the early days of WWII, the Route 66 community of Miami welcomed over 2000 British Cadets as part of a training program to prepare pilots for combat over their homeland of England.
While most of these young cadets returned home to intense fighting and a country already ravaged by war, there were a few that never made it back home to their native soil. They were tragically killed while training in the states and have been forever laid to rest along Route 66 in the community of Miami, Oklahoma.
Laying these young men to rest on foreign soil attracted the attention of a local, Francis Mae Hill, who would over the next 40 years provide both flowers and prayers for these young men. Mrs. Hill knew the family would not be able to visit their loved ones, so she voluntarily tended to their graves and promised family back home that they would not be forgotten. She often considered the young men her boys, and her last wish was to be buried alongside her boys. King George VI would later award Mrs. Hill The King's Award for Service.
host Anthony Arno as he talks with Nancy Bro, office manager at the GAR Cemetery in Miami, OK, about the life of these cadets and other notables buried in Miami. Highlights of the conversation include:
SHOW NOTES
Origin and network of GAR Cemeteries
Cemetery Tourism as an industry
The US agrees to a proposed program to train British in the US
The Spartan Flying School
Keeping the operation top secret in the early days
A sudden influx of British men with funny accents gathering in Miami- what’s going on?
How a Route 66 community welcomes 2000 men with open arms
British adjusting to American life while the war is raging back home
The final count laid to rest: 15 Cadets and a local woman
Kenneth Raisbeck: recreating the final flight of for the 70 year old son who he never met
Annual Remembrance Ceremonies at GAR
Origin of fatal accidents
Col Gale Halverson The Candy Bomber
Frantie "Francis" Mae Hill Mother of the boys buried in Oklahoma
Why should we care for British soldiers laid to rest in the US?
Honoring the British war dead in the states - justification and reasoning
Everlasting relationships cadets formed with locals
Local museums honoring the RAF cadets Dobson Museum
NE OK College, Oklahoma
Other notables buried at GAR Cemetery Richard Kelton
George Coleman
Elvin and Lovell Mantle
John Beaver
Atha Cardin
Charles Banks Wilson
William Campbell
Booger Red
LINKS
Website: GAR Cemetery, Miami, OK
Dobson Museum
Raisbeck Story and Flight
THE CANDY BOMBER: Colonel Gail “Hal” Halvorsen
CHARLES BANKS WILSON: Documentary (Notable artist buried at GAR Cemetery)
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Miami City takes over GAR Cemetery
Miami Municipal Airport
Bugles across America
Additional fatalities at other Spartan Flying School locations
Logistics for visiting the GAR Cemetery
Personal Background for Nancy
Child Remembrance Ceremony