Winfred Guy Maxwell
Born: July 27, 1921 Place: Belgrade, MO
Parents: Guy Dent Maxwell and Cressie Myrtle (Eye) Maxwell
Family: Second born of four children; First boy
School:
Activities: Loved playing basketball, Junior play
Voted: Boy with the darkest hair, Best Dressed, and Most Bashful
Graduated Irondale High School May, 1939
Dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player
Work:
Sheet metal specialist for Curtis Wright Airplane Division/ McDonnel Aircraft Corp. Robertson, MO
Military:
February 2, 1942 – Registered for Draft
Tues., Dec. 22, 1942 – Drafted and then Enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO
Sent to Clearwater, FL for Basic Training
Mon., Feb. 1, 1943 – Left Clearwater, FL.
Thu., Feb. 4, 1943 – Arrived at Radio Mechanics School at AAFTS Sioux Falls, SD for 18-20 weeks of training.
Wed., Jun. 9, 1943 – Graduated from ‘Radio School’.
Mon., Jul. 5, 1943 – Arrived to Salt Lake City to be reclassified.
Fri., Jul. 23, 1943 – has arrived to a new base – Gowen Field – near Boise, ID for phase I of training. This is where the crews are formed for the B-24s.
Left to right: Loise McIntyre, Ruth Ives, Helen Beck, Loretta Pratt, Henrietta Robinson, Harold Synder, Winfred Maxwell, Clarence Wilson, Harold Husky, Herman Wortham Gene Dotson Byron Robinson, Raymond Dickey, Lorraine West, and Helen Marie Laux; Robert Dickey is not in the picture.
Irondale High School Basketball Team 1938
War was not a part of any of the classmate's future plans.
Recruitment Poster