Patriot Guard Riders

Honor Mission

John Bailey, Jr., Veteran

USA, USAF – WWII
Maple Valley, Washington – 09-13-19

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriot Guard Riders, we have been invited by the family of 1st Lt. John Bailey, Jr. to stand in attendance at their loved one’s final military honors. 2nd Lt. Bailey was flying AP-6’s within the USA as a target tow operator with the Army Air Corps. Eventually John earned the rank of 1st Lt and transferred to Britain to fly C-47 transport planes. He transported mostly cargo, but did fly 3-4 combat missions and flew paratroopers to be dropped in Europe. According to his son John, he flew to Europe, East Africa, and Brazil all while stationed in the UK. 1st LT Bailey had signed on for a full 3 year term of service but the Army Air Forces released him 9 months early so that he could enroll in college to earn a degree. Eventually John moved to Washington, went to work for Boeing and worked on designing instrument panels and cargo systems for most of their commercial planes and the B-52 and B-47. While at Boeing John was part of the Boeing Flying Club and was in a co-op that owned a Cessna. John truly loved flying and the machines that flew; he spent his entire life in thrall of them. Let’s stand and honor this true American Hero and one of the Greatest Generation.

This service follows an earlier service at the same location, we will just segue from one spot to the next – this will be covered at the first mission briefing.
Maple Valley, Washington 98038

Sabrina “Mother Hen” Brown

pgrmotherhen@gmail.com

206-369-1434

SV – Ron Jellum, ltrsz28@hotmail.com, 206-669-8662

SPECIAL NOTE ON STAGING: There will be no set staging for this mission; it follows another service at the same location so we will just switch shelters.

Mission briefing will be covered during the break between services.

This is the second of three missions on this date.

Service begins at 11:00.

Please check the weather, dress comfortably.

Cages always welcome!