06/06/1921 – 5/24/1942
The insignia represents aircraft being ferried from the West to the East, President Roosevelt’s directive to this Command that aircraft be ferried “with the greatest possible speed”. The Morse Code dots and dashes are for the letters “ACFC.”
Private Taylor went on to eventually earn the rank of Staff Sergeant with the 10th Ferrying Corps out of Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.
(Photo by Bill Larkins)
The Ferrying Command, later renamed to Air Transport Command (ATC) was a United States Air Force unit that was created during World War II as the strategic airlift component of the U. S. Army Air Forces as the Worldwide transport of aircraft, personnel, and cargo.
“Freddy” lived on Grandview Avenue with his mother, Ella Dwyer, before Brookhaven was officially a Borough.
Freddy attended Washington Grammar School at the SW corner of Edgmont Avenue & Brookhaven Road (now Walgreens).
Freddy graduated from Chester High School in 1940…….
….. and immediately enlisted in The US Army Air Corps. He was stationed at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C. Private Taylor then graduated from the US Technical School at Chanute Field, Ill. as an Aircraft Mechanic.
On Sunday May 24, 1942, a US Army C40-D aircraft was on a transport mission and crashed 5 miles east of Howe Brook, Maine. There were no survivors. Investigators noted that weather was undoubtedly a causal factor.
SSGT Frederick J. Taylor was among those killed.