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A timeline of Brock's military service in World War II...
- January 27, 1943
Reported for duty, Denver, Colorado.
- February, 1943
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.
- March-May, 1943
Officer training at Kansas State
University, Manhattan, Kansas.
- June-July, 1943
Classification at Lackland Air Base,
San Antonio, Texas.
- July, 1943
Pilot training, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- ?, 1943
Reclassification, Ellington Field,
Houston, Texas.
- January, 1944
Bombardier training (received wings),
Big Spring, Texas.
- ?, 1944
Gunnery training (received wings)
Harlingen, Texas.
- ?, 1944
Crew assigned, Salt Lake City, Utah.
- ?, 1944
B24 Crew training, Davis-Monthan Air Base,
Tucson, Arizona.
- April-May, 1944
Crew training, Topeka Air Base,
Topeka, Kansas.
- June 6, 1944
Embarkation to Europe on the SS Santa
Rosa, Newport News, Virginia.
- June 16, 1944
Arrived at Naples, Italy.
- June, 1944
Based in Bagnoli near Naples.
- July 24, 1944
Assigned to 726th Squadron's base at
Foggia, Italy.
- July 26, 1944
First mission on "Thundermug"
to bomb oil refinery in Albania.
- July 27, 1945
Second mission--ball bearing factory
in Hungary. Shot down and captured by enemy troops.
- July ?, 1944
Taken to prison in Budapest to be
interrogated.
- August ?, 1944
Moved to Stalag Luft III near
Sagan (in Silesia).
- January 27, 1945
Forced March from Sagan to Moosburg
begins at midnight in zero-degree blizzard.
- February 7, 1945
Arrived at Stalag VII-A in Moosburg.
- April 29, 1945
Stalag Luft VIIa is liberated by
Patton's 3rd Army.
- ?, 1945
Flown to Camp Lucky Strike near
Le Havre, France.
- ?, 1945
Embarked on the USS General Walter H.
Gordon to cross the Atlantic to return home.
- ?, 1945
Arrived in New York harbor and based
at Camp Kilmer.
- ?, 1945
Traveled by rail home to Denver.
- ?, 1945
Quartered in beach resort hotels at
Santa Monica, California.
- ?, 1945
Discharged from service at
Santa Ana Air Base, California.
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