WELCOME
VETERANS AND FRIENDS!
WHAT:
The 44th Annual Reunion
WHO:
National World War II Glider Pilot Association with Troop Carrier
Associates,
families and friends of veterans
WHEN:
October 2-4, 2014
WHERE:
To be held at Crowne Plaze Hotel (I-494 & 34th Avenue South) Bloomington,
MN near
the Mall of America and
the Minneapolis International Airport. Free Shuttle service.
COST:
$30 Registration. Dinner: 10/2 & 10/3 are each $33; Banquet 10/4: $36.
Bus to Museum &
Lunch: $25.
HOW:
Contact George Theis: 719-338-6487 or ww2gp@aol.com
Check web page:
www.ww2gp.org
SPECIAL EVENTS:
THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 2: The Hospitality Room is the place throughout the day for
conversations, refreshments and viewing collections. A meeting is held in the
afternoon. The banquet each evening opens at 6:30pm and requires
registration.
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 3: (1) Scott Glover, owner of Mid America Flight Museum,
and
his friend Cowden Ward are bringing two famous war birds to the Golden Wings
Museum for rides: C-60 Lockheeed Lodestar for free rides and a P-51 for
veterans. A bus will bring folks from the hotel. $25 registration with lunch.
(2)
While you wait for a Lodestar ride, visit the Golden Wings Flying Museum, the
world's largest living history private collection with 43 unique and one of a kind
aircraft from the 1920s and 1930s. This is private museum is located at the
Anoka County Airport in Blaine Minnesota but the general public is invited that
day to meet the pilots and other WWII veterans.
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 4: The banquet is really a special event with tables of family groups,
Troop Carrier members, historian sorts and in recent years, young aviation
researchers. The speaker is Capt. James Johns, USA (Ret.) who is a restoration
expert. He recently restored a CG-4A glider now at the Fagen WWII Fighter's
Museum in Granite Falls, MN. (See photographs and story earlier on this
blog.)
SUNDAY:
Interested persons might collaborate on a 250 mile round trip to see the CG 4-A
glider at Granite Falls, MN.
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