Oakesdale’s Del Gregory takes WWII Honor Flight to D.C.

Del Gregory of Oakesdale was among 45 veterans who returned to Spokane from an honor flight to Washington, D.C., Sunday night. The trip was organized and supported by the Inland Northwest Honor Flight group, one of 90 such organizations now working to provide World War II veterans with a trip to view the World War II memorial and other honor sites in the capital.

Gregory, a 1941 Oakesdale High grad, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942 at the age of 19 and trained as a radioman and navigator. For most of the war, he served as a crew member on C-47 cargo planes on 125 flights over the Hi...