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W/O RALPH L. DE LONG WAS STATIONED IN HEADQUARTERS.  He married an English Lady named Regina Solari. Courtesy of relative. 



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COMMENTS = Hi, I would like to let you know the date of death of my Uncle, CWO Ralph L. DeLong, for your taps database.He died on 05 JUN 47,and he was the Group S-1. Also please note that the last name should have a space between the "E" and the "L" when spelled in upper case as it is a two part name. VERY VERY nice site!! Thanks so much!!!!! DALE DE LONG





Thanks SO VERY MUCH for those pictures and their notations! I am just amazed at the quality of both shots and the legibility of the writing for photos that old. I am quite proud and honored to read your dad's remark about my uncle. It was equally nice to read the one about Lt. Hosford as well. This information alone answers my question as to whether my uncle was the sole s-1 at HQ. It made sense that there should have been an officer there. My uncle's rank CWO stands for Chief Warrant Officer and it is was the highest enlisted rank there was. I was never in the military( a decision I regret to this day) but I do know some of the lingo and rank structure of that era. My dad managed to talk me out of enlisting even though he too was an AAF veteran like his older brother. In fact my dad was in the AAF in Germany when it became the USAF in 1947. He had enlisted in late 1945. He wanted to quit school and sign up but the grandparents said no. The ironic part in all of this is that by 1946 my dad was sent to Germany with the AAF as an upper air meteorologist. In other words he released weather balloons with radiosondes and gathered air data. In the meantime, my uncle, whom my family called "Buddy" instead of Ralph, married an English woman sometime in October, 1946. He stayed in Europe because of that I suppose and then was sent to a fighter base in Germany. After sometime there, he returned to the US and was posted to Ft. Crook which was later renamed Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. After that duty ended in early 1947 he went to Virginia to reunite with his wife who was staying with her sister who had married another American serviceman. He got discharged there, stayed out for a week, re-enlisted and was to attend Counter Intelligence School in Virginia.Within a matter of a week or so he was found dead in his car in a restaurant just outside the main gate to Offutt AFB! My dad and the family never talked much about this to us as we grew up and that is why I know so little about him. Getting back to the ironic part- my dad and him were only 20 miles from each other in Germany but never knew it at the time! He discovered it after he came home in 1948, 15 months after his brother's death. There's a little more to this story I can add to later if you're interested.





Dale DeLong