I haven’t put any of my own family history on About South Texas because I am the only member of my family that has lived in South Texas. Except my uncle Lansing Anthony, who was stationed at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi during World War II. So I salute LANSING ANTHONY for Veterans’ Day. Lansing Marshall Anthony was born on a farm outside Houston in 1920, named after his uncle Lansing Mosher Anthony, who died two years earlier as a World War I casualty. The uncle, an experienced telegraph lineman, was assigned to the Signal Corps to help with communications between Allied forces, but he became ill at sea and died before reaching the front lines. The younger Lansing enlisted in the Marines to fight the Japanese and received flight training in Corpus Christi, one of the few in the program who was not a college man. Among the aircraft he flew was the Catalina seaplane. One photo shows him on leave back at the farm, showing off his uniform to his nephew Ronnie Browne. After Lansing got his wings, he was kept in Corpus Christi as a flight instructor to train more aviators. He only went overseas to Japan and East Asia to aid in the occupation after the end of hostilities. After the war, Lansing left the service and flew as a commercial pilot for TransTexas Airlines a couple of years. But he gave up flying because it took him away from his family. Lansing died two years ago in Indiana at the age of 92.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 04:03:34 +0000
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