Ramey, Roger Maxwell, Lt Gen

Deceased

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Service Details

Last Rank
Lieutenant General

Last Primary AFSC/MOS
00066-Air Commander

Last AFSC Group
Command and Control

Primary Unit
1945-1946, AAF MOS 1060, 58th Bombardment Wing, Very Heavy

Service Years
1924 - 1957

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Home State

Texas

Year of Birth
1905

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Home Town Denton, Texas	Last Address Torrance, California
Date of Passing Mar 04, 1963
Location of Interment Roselawn Memorial Park - Denton, Texas

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Awarded for actions during World War II

(Citation Needed) - SYNOPSIS: Colonel (Air Corps) Roger Maxwell Ramey (ASN: 0-17231), United States Army Air Forces, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving as Pilot of a B-17 Heavy Bomber in the Commanding Officer, 43d Bombardment Group (H), FIFTH Air Force, while participating in a bombing mission on 1 February 1943, while participating in an attack on the Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain. As command pilot leading a flight against the base, Colonel Ramey remained at the scene of attack for over two hours, making 20 passes over the target, dropping flares on each run, and thus drawing attention of searchlights and diverting much of the anti-aircraft fire from other bombers to his own. The personal courage and zealous devotion to duty displayed by Colonel Ramey on this occasion have upheld the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 5th Air Force, and the United States Army Air Forces.

General Orders: Headquarters, U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, General Orders No. 17 (1943)

Action Date: 14-Feb-43

Service: Army Air Forces

Rank: Colonel

Company: Commanding Officer

Regiment: 43d Bombardment Group (H)

Division: 5th Air Force

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Sources:
http://roswellproof.homestead.com/Ramey_info.html
http://www.nicap.org/bios/ramey_detailed_bio.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=59658498
http://www.generals.dk/general/Ramey/Roger_Maxwell/USA.html
http://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient.php?recipientid=6183
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1686367/lt-gen-roger-m-ramey/

World War II/China-India-Burma Theater/Burma Campaign (1941-42)
From Month/Year December / 1941	To Month/Year May / 1942
Description (Burma Campaign 7 Dec 1941 to 26 May 1942) The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily between British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Commonwealth. On 8 December 1941, after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan and became an active participant in World War II. For some months prior to that attack, however, the United States had been supporting China's war against Japan with money and materiel. Pearl Harbor formally brought America into World War II, but it was an earlier American commitment to China that drew the United States Army into the Burma Campaign of 1942. Japan had invaded China in 1937, gradually isolating it from the rest of the world except for two tenuous supply lines: a narrow-gauge railway originating in Haiphong, French Indochina; and the Burma Road, an improved gravel highway linking Lashio in British Burma to Kunming in China. Along these routes traveled the materiel that made it possible for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese government to resist the Japanese offensives into the interior. In 1940 Japan took advantage of the German invasion of France to cut both supply lines to China. In June, with France focused on the war in Europe, Japanese warships moved into French Indochina and closed the railroad from Haiphong. A month later, threatening war if its demands were not met, Japan secured an agreement from the hard-pressed British government to close the Burma Road to war materiel temporarily. The Burma Road reopened in October 1940, literally the sole lifeline to China. By late 1941 the United States was shipping lend-lease materiel by sea to the Burmese port of Rangoon, where it was transferred to railroad cars for the trip to Lashio in northern Burma and finally carried by truck over the 712-mile-long Burma Road to Kunming. Over this narrow highway, trucks carried munitions and materiel to supply the Chinese Army, whose continuing strength in turn forced the Japanese to keep considerable numbers of ground forces stationed in China. Consequently, Japanese strategists decided to cut the Burma lifeline, gain complete control of China, and free their forces for use elsewhere in the Pacific.

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From Month/Year December / 1941	To Month/Year May / 1942

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020

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