Hugh F. McCaffery
Class of 1924
71st Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group
Hugh F. McCaffery
In 1929, McCaffery enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and became a commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. McCaffery was a gifted aviator, and he became the first pilot to transport invalids, and the first to fly non-stop from Puerto Rico to Washington DC. Five days after Pearl Harbor oMajor McCaffery was killed when the plane he was aboard crashed into a mountain in California en route to Pearl Harbor in the Pacific.
Click here to read more
