{"id":278,"date":"2008-03-13T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=278"},"modified":"2008-03-13T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T10:06:09","slug":"naas-man-in-u-s-air-force-1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/naas-man-in-u-s-air-force-1958\/","title":{"rendered":"NAAS MAN IN U.S. AIR FORCE – 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Leinster Leader 21 June 1958.<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
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Naas man in U.S. Air Force<\/font><\/div>\n
Airman Second Class Patrick D. Osborne, son of Mr and Mrs J. W. Osborne, <\/font>of Craddockstown house, Naas, has recently been assigned duty as a radio <\/font>maintenance technician with 1230th Airways and Air Communications <\/font>service squadron, R. A. F. Station Croughton, in the English Midlands. <\/font>Airman Osborne, who was well-known as an amateur jockey, will share in <\/font>the responsibility of insuring constant radio communication to all NATO <\/font>aircraft flying over the North Atlantic. Croughton Airways operated by <\/font>the men of the 1230th AACS Squadron is the United Kingdom link in the <\/font>globe-encircling network of the United States Air Force’s Strategic <\/font>Communications System.<\/font><\/div>\n
Paddy emigrated to the States in December 1956. He enlisted for a four <\/font>year tour of Air Force duty in January 1957, and after receiving his <\/font>basic training at Lackland Air Base in Texas he was shipped to Scott Air <\/font>Base in Illinois for radio maintenance fundementals school. Upon his <\/font>successful completion of the radio course he was assigned to Ent Air <\/font>base in Colorado Springs for his apprenticeship. Airman Osborne received <\/font>his overseas orders almost a year after arriving in the United States.<\/font><\/div>\n

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From the pages of the Leinster Leader of 1958 – Former Naas amateur jockey in US Air Force <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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[compiled and typed by James Durney]<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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