World War II Honoree
World War II Veteran
Benjamin Stephen Collier
Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Raleigh Township, North Carolina
Honored By
Pearl Thomas
He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps as a Private Aviation Cadet in 1943 and trained as a B-24 flight engineer at Kessler Field. He served in Florida at Buckingham, Naples and Maxwell Air Fields doing coastal submarine patrols.