The Royal Air Force in Oklahoma: Lives, Loves & Courage of the British Air Crews Trained in Oklahoma During World War II - Hardcover

Paula Carmack Denson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1885596561 ISBN 13: 9781885596567

Publisher: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2006

Synopsis

A well-documented history of the lives, both English and American, of those living on the Oklahoma prairies during World War II when Royal Air Force cadets were trained in Ponca City and Miami, Oklahoma. Heavily illustrated with first hand accounts by Royal Air Force cadets and the families that adopted them, if only for a short time.

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About the Author:

Paula Carmack Denson is a native of Ponca City, born in 1945, just as WWII was coming to a close. She was educated in the Ponca City school system and graduated from Baylor University College of Dentistry, Caruth School of Dental Hygiene in 1965. She was employed as a registered dental hygienist, both in Texas and Oklahoma, for a period of thirty years, at which time she retired from that profession. In 1994 Paula started a home based business called Affairs to Remember. The wedding and special events rental and decorating business grew quickly and as it did, she made three moves with her shop, each time to a larger site. In July, 2004 Paula sold her business so that she could devote more time to her love of historic research and writing. Local history has always been of great interest to Paula and in 1994 she formed North Central Oklahoma Historical Association, a 501-c-3 non profit organization dedicated the preservation of local history. She, along with her board of directors, produced a national award winning set of history books for North Central Oklahoma. She is still president of that organization. As her interest in local history grew, so did her love of Marland's Grand Home, formerly known as the Ponca City Cultural Center. She is one of the founding board members for that group and is currently the renovation chairman for Friends of Marland's Grand Home. Six years ago Paula purchased about 70 hand written letters postmarked from England during WWII. She discovered that she possessed letters written by the cadets who trained at Darr School of Aeronautics in Ponca City from 1941-1944. These letters were written to one of the families who took many of the young men into their homes, treating them as sons. There are also letters from wives, widows, and mothers of these brave young men. Paula has been able to locate several of the men some sixty years after they wrote the letters and has traveled to England on two occasions to meet them, along with man

About this edition

• Publisher: Oklahoma Heritage Association
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1885596561
• ISBN 13: 9781885596567
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187
• Editor: Gini Moore Campbell