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Charles L. Hobbs' service record details his training, active duty postings, and hospital assignments from 1941 to 1945.

Record of Air Corps training and military service

postcard of Edinburgh castle from Sgt. Lawrence Hon. Mailed to CLH in Hennessey, Okla.

Response to claim of property damage from plane crash of Dec. 21, 1943.
"The War Department is not authorized to compensate military personnel for damage to or loss or destruction of personal property merely because it is damaged, lost or destroyed…

"On 22 December your son, Captain Charles L. Hobbs, was removed from the seriously ill list."

Kathleen Cain Hobbs describes drive back from New Jersey to Hennessey, OK. Mentions pulling trailer and her son, Michael Hobbs. Postmarked East Canton, OH

From Kathleen Cain Hobbs, one month after wedding, New York postmark

Sgt. Kathleen Cain served in the Women's Army Corps, a branch of the United States Army. She was stationed in Fort Dix, New Jersey. Cain married Capt. Charles L. Hobbs at the base chapel on March 24, 1945. Her cousin Pete Kuhlhoff, a magazine editor…

Newspaper clipping: "Nose gunner who made 51 missions is here on a visit." Manuscript for newspaper story.