World War II Honoree

Frederick Walton Allen

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Ripon, Wisconsin

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

He voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on December 7, 1942. He learned to fly the B-29 bomber. He spent time as a pilot stationed at Kessler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi; the College of Waynesburg in Pennsylvania; the Classification Center at Nashville, Tennessee; Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama; Douglas, Georgia; and Cochran Army Airfield in Macon, Georgia. He received his pilot’s wings on August 5, 1944, at Moody Field in Valdosta, Georgia and completed his training with the rank of second lieutenant.