Honored Passenger

Yesterday I had the opportunity the meet and then they the last remaining WW1 Vet of the United States. We flew to WV where he lives picked him up and then flew him back to KC. The National WW1 museum is here in town and they are having a big celebration on Monday. It was really neat to talk to someone who has been around for so long and seen so many things. Also the airport we went to is an ANG base. Here are a few pics of their cool airplanes.





Here is more information:

INFORMATION ON FRANK WOODRUFF BUCKLES
Frank Woodruff Buckles was born in Harrison County, Missouri in 1901. He served in the United States Army from 1917–1919 as an ambulance driver. Mr. Buckles attained the rank of Corporal.
He enlisted on August 14, 1917 in Oklahoma City as an underage but enthusiastic recruit. He trained in Kansas at Ft. Riley and in December 1917, he and 102 men of the 1st Ft. Riley Casual Detachment sailed to Europe. The men traveled from Hoboken, New Jersey to Europe on the HMS “Carpathia”, the vessel famous for rescuing the survivors of the “Titanic” on April 15, 1912.
Mr. Buckles drove a motorcycle sidecar, cars and ambulances in England and France. After the Armistice, he was with a POW Escort Company returning prisoners back to Germany. He returned to the United States on the USS “Bogahontis” and was discharged at Camp Pike, Arkansas on November 12, 1919. Mr. Buckles eventually went to work for the White Star steamship line and was in Manila on business in December 1941 when the Japanese attacked. He spent over three years as a prisoner at the city's University of Santo Tomas.

Mr. Buckles currently lives near Charles Town, West Virginia. For more information on Mr. Buckles and other World War I veterans, visit the Library of Congress
Veterans History Project online at www.loc.gov/vets.