Emily, Johnnie's records (not the 312th ), but his personal records are as follows: Living in Cherokee County, Alabama prior to enlistment Serial Number 07004957 DOB-1/17/1920 Army Air Corps Service from 12/30/1939 to 06/24/1945 and again later U.S. Air Force from 08/06/1947 to 04/30/1963 12/30/39 Enlisted Ft. Benning, Ga. Basic Training at Maxwell Field, Alabama 02/15/1940 Assigned to 26th Air Base Squadron also at Maxwell Field 08/05/1940 to 08/30/1940 Attached to 93rd Air School Squadron, Maxwell Field 08/31/1940 to 09/26/1940 Attached to 5th Air School Squadron, Maxwell Field 10/12/1940 to 11/25/1940 (Gap in Dates on records) Attached to 12th Air School Squadron,Maxwell Field 12/02/1940 to 02/07/1942 (Gap In Dates on records) Assigned to HQ,HQ Squadron 36th Air Base Squadron, Maxwell Field 02/08/1942 Assigned to 312th Air Service Group at Jackson Army Airbase, MS (Recently known as Hawkins Field,3 miles NW of Jackson) 02/28/1942 Moved with 312th to CAAB, S.C. (Could be Charleston,Columbia,Congaree, or Coronaca Army Air Base-I believe it's probably Columbia, but verify with records of the 312th) 12/29/1942 Moved with 312th to Lakeland Army Air Field, Lakeland, FL. 04/05/1943 Movement overseas to Army Station #167 Ridgewell, Essex, England,312th performing duties with 381st Bomb Group *Individual Assignments per morning reports end here 312th Air Service Group Locations after Station #167 07/03/1943 Departed Station #167 01/1944 to 04/1944 Unit location-Station #454 Warmwell,Dorset, England Unknown Date-Movement to Station #551 Lymington,Hampshire, England 06/1944 Departed Station #551 to France Unknown Date-Location, Strip 10A, Carentan, France 08/1944 Unit Location-Strip A-47,Orly, France 09/1944 Various Locations, Loan,Crepy,St. Orzier, France 11/1944 Location Ligny En Barrois, France 12/1944 Location Nancy, France @ 04/1945 Loaction St. Nicholas Du Port, France @ 05/1945 LOcation Bad Mergentheim, Germany and Stromberg, Germany @11/30/1945 Unit Deactivation I have a list of all medals and awards earned, and training dates/places for his years after the war, up to retirement date 04/30/1963. If you want specific unit information, remember that detailed unit histories do not exist for all units but approx. 303 frames on microfilm containing information for the 312th overseas do exist. I have the order form to send to: ATTN:Microfilm Order AFHRA/RSA 600 Chennault Circle Maxwell AFB, AL. 36112-6424 Reference:IRISREF-BO839 Reel-2026 Frames 1269-1572 I took on this for you some time ago just to see what I could dig up. I will gladly send all information to you. You can e-mail me for the address in which you want it sent. _snowfrog61@yahoo.com_ (mailto:snowfrog61@yahoo.com) Good Luck, Rick