Archival Photo
A2010-019.173 : Mayor Riley has tea at a US Eighth Air Force Bomber Command Station in England with a group of Oregonians
Friday, December 31, 1943
A2010-019
AP/30176
Black and white
5 X 7
Left to right: T. Sgt. Roy C. Cameron, of Charleston; Major Otto W. Cahill, whose wife and mother life at Campbell Court Hotel, Portland; Corporal Robert L. Funk, 9630 NE Prescott St; Captain David B. Brandon, 2004 NE Halsey St; Captain Weldon T. Ross, 506 Evans St., McMinnville; and Mayor Riley. Major Cahill is base supply and maintenance officer, Corporal Funk is a sheet metal worker repairing battle damage on flying fortresses, Captain Brandon is the group's dental officer, and Captain Ross is a squadron flight surgeon. Sergeant Cameron, who formerly worked in Portland, finished an unusually long tour of combat operations the day before this picture was taken. He completed the number of raids required to retire a man from combat, and then volunteered and completed five additional. Official U.S. Army Air Corps photograph.
