'Prowler' takes sisters on remembrance flight

JAMES ROSS PULLIAM (center) flew the same assignment spot as his great-grandfather, Paul Burrhus.

At the Jasper Air Show, April 5, sisters Evelyn Burrhus Duquette and Paulette Burrhus accompanied by James Ross Pulliam, grandson of Evelyn and Allan Duquette, flew a "remembrance flight" on the B25 Mitchel Bomber "Pacific Prowler."

The Duquette sisters are daughters of Paul Burrhus, an Army Air Corps verteran of World War II. He was an aerial engineer on the flight crew of the B25 in the North African Theater from 1943 - 1945. He served in the 329th Transport Squadron of the Mediterranean Air Transport Service.

The flight over Lake Sam Rayburn was an honor for the sisters because it was the same "assignment spot" their father flew over 65 years ago.