Edward A. 'Hawk' Cave

Beginnings

Recollections of Edward A. Cave, Jr., better know as Hawk Cave - a name hung on me at age four. Nothing to do with flying. I was born November 1, 1918, in Paducah, Kentucky and was in the fourth year at the University of Kentucky as a pre-med student and was in ROTC Program to get a commission in June of 1941.

I took a physical for the Army Air Corp and was made flying Cadet April 15, 1941, and then sent to Tulsa, OK Spartan School of Aeronautics. From there July 3, 1941, for Goodfellow Field for Basic Training in San Angelo, Texas, and on to Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas, October 3, 1941, and got my wings as Second Lieutenant, December 12, 1941, five days after Pearl Harbor. Left Brooks January, 1942, with 205 hours of total student training time, and with only 20 hours of instrument time and 15 hours of LINK training time.

I was sent to Barksdale Field in Shreveport, Louisiana to the 98th Bomb Group, February 15, 1942, to be introduced to the monster B- 24, the biggest airplane I had ever seen.

376 ARCHIVES

The website 376bg.org is NOT our site nor is it our endowment fund.

At the 2017 reunion, the board approved the donation of our archives to the Briscoe Center for American History, located on the University of Texas - Austin campus.

Also, the board approved a $5,000 donation to add to Ed Clendenin's $20,000 donation in the memory of his father. Together, these funds begin an endowment for the preservation of the 376 archives.

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My Trip to San Pancrazio

October 2019


Reunion

NOTE change in month !!!

DATES: Oct 26-29, 2023

CITY:Tucson, AZ

HOTEL: Double Tree Suites Airport hotel

7051 South Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85756

520-225-0800


Click here to read about the reunion details.

previous reunions


For Sale

The Other Doolittle Raid


The Broken Wings of Zlatibor


The Liberandos


Three Crawford Brothers


Liberando: Reflections of a Reluctant Warrior


376th Bomb Group Mission History


The Last Liberator


Full Circle


Shadows of Wings


Ten Men, A "Flying Boxcar," and A War


I Survived Ploesti


A Measure of Life


Shot Down In Yugoslavia


Stories of My Life


Attack


Born in Battle


Bombardier's Diary


Lost Airmen


Langdon Liberando