First Lieutenant FRANK LESLIE RHOADES, JR.,

First Lieutenant FRANK LESLIE RHOADES, JR., Air Forces Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leslie Rhoades, Shreveport. Brother of Aerographer’s Mater, Second Class PHYLLIS EVELYN RHOADES (WAVE) and Radioman, Third Class HERBERT CHARLES RHOADES. He was born November 3, 1921, and attended Creswell School, Byrd High School, and Louisiana Polytechnic Institute. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces July 18, 1942, at the age of 20, and trained at Chanute Field, Illinois, and at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He was stationed at Montbrook Army Air Field, Williston, Florida, as engineering officer. He received training at Maxwell Field, Alabama, Orangeburg, South Carolina, Sumpter, South Carolina, Turner Field, Georgia, transition at Maxwell Field, and R. T.U. at Charleston Army Air Base, South Carolina. On November 3, 1944, he embarked for England (ETO) and served with the 754th Bombardment Squadron, 458th Bombardment Group (Heavy), at the AAF Station at Norwich, England, as pilot of a B-24 aircraft. He served in the campaigns of the Ardennes, the Rhineland, and Central Europe, and has the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters and the European Theater of Operations Ribbon with three battle stars. Discharged October 21, 1945. 

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1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF LOUISIANA – LOUISIANA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE – 1946