23 June 1911 born in Crutcho, Oklahoma, Oklahoma

Central High School Class of 1929 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

8 July 1931: Private Pilot License

1934: Airplane Mechanic

1935: Aviator

1 April 1936: Marriage to Miss Irene Amalie Surovik

18 Aug 1939: commissioned (0383620) a Second Lieutenant

1940: Chief Pilot for john h. burke aviation service at Wiley Post Field near OKC

1941: Flight Instructor at the Dallas Aviation Contract School

May 1942: called from Reserves to active duty

1942: Flight Instructor at Lubbock Army Advanced Flying School, Texas

29 Nov 1942: promoted to First Lieutenant

1943: B-17 pilot at Pratt, Kansas

2 April 1944: B-29 pilot at Chakulia airfield, India

14 Dec 1944: parachuted over Rangoon target area-POW

4 May 1945: Liberated-POW

Cornelius C Meyer (1911-1984) - Find a Grave Memorial

C.C. "Bud" Meyer Airplane Command Pilot (left seat): O-383620

B-29-25-BW (Boeing Wichita) Superfortress serial #42-24457, nicknamed "Battln’ Beauty" tail fin marking: four red horizontal rudder stripes-T, assigned to the 25th Bomber Squadron, 40th Bombardment Group (VH), 58th Bomb Wing, XX Bomber Command, 20th Air Force, USAAF, stationed at Chakulia airfield, India in the CBI Theatre of Operations.

Air Corps: 25th Bomber Squadron, 40th Bombardment Group (Very Heavy)

O-383620 MEYER, CORNELIUS C.

HOR: Oklahoma

Asiatic Theatre: Burma

POW: Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated

JAPAN Burma #5 (Moulmein & Rangoon Jail) Burma 16-97

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