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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, November 10, 1994                   TAG: 9412300019
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: N-15   EDITION: METRO 
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IN SERVICE

MONTE R. KEELING, son of William R. and Barbara A. Keeling of Roanoke, has been promoted from private first class E1 to private first class E2. He is stationed at Army's Natick Research Development and Engineering Center in Massachusetts.

He is a 1990 graduate of Northside High School.

F.H. WILBOURNE Salem recently received the Chinese Air Force Pilot Wings authorized by Gen. Tang Fei of the Chinese Air Force, Republic of China (Taiwan), with the cooperation of the Chinese Air Force Veterans Association.

Wilbourne, a hump pilot in World War II in the 530th Fighter Squadron, assisted the Chinese Air Force to fend off Japanese attacks.

The Hump Pilots Association is composed of more than 5,000 air crew members and support personnel who were engaged in the China-Burma-India Theater of operation during WWII.

The 530th Fighter Squadron, also known as the "Yellow Scorpions," earned two presidential unit citations by controlling the skies over Southeast Asia from September 1943 to the end of the war. It downed 279 enemy planes and destroyed 542 locomotives.

Tokyo Rose gave the squadron its Yellow Scorpions named because of the yellow P51 nose cones and the damage the squadron inflicted.

CHIEF PETTY OFFICER DAVID A. KELLY, son of David P. and Mildred W. Kelly of Roanoke, recently received the Navy Commendation Medal.

He was honored for meritorious service while serving as an administrative chief with Flett Training Group, Detachment Norfolk, Little Creek, where he is currently assigned.

Kelly is a 1979 graduate of Roanoke Catholic High School.

NAVY AIRMAN APPRENTICE DWIGHT J. HILLARD, son of Dwight A. and Dot Hillard of Troutville, recently completed operations off the coast of Haiti aboard the USS America.

Hillard is a 1990 graduate of Lord Botetourt High School. 


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