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Show Air Force Vets Are Organized WASHINGTON. A new national veterans' organization, for members of the air forces of World Wars I and II. has been set up, with former S- ;' ,j Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle as temporary tempo-rary president. The organization is designed to perpetuate per-petuate AAF traditions. tradi-tions. Doolittle told reporters here that the organization is non-profit and "has no ax to grind of a commercial na-Doolittle na-Doolittle ture It wU1 bg known as the AFA, the Air Force association. Key figures of the organization called on President Truman to Inform In-form him of the AFA and its aims. The organizers include such former air force men as Col. Willis S. Fitch, its executive director; Sgt. Forest Vossler, Syracuse university, holder hold-er of the Congressional Medal of honor; Lt. Col. Thomas G. Lanphier, who shot down the plane carrying Admiral Yamamoto, now of Boise, Idaho; Sgt. Merryl Forst, captain of the 1945 Dartmouth football team, and Col. James M. Stewart, former for-mer 8th air force squadron commander com-mander and now back in Hollywood. |