This Nov. 11 marks the 80th anniversary of the rescue of a famous Army pilot from Collingsworth County.
Major William T. “Bill” Cherry was born in 1915 in the Marella Community,about four miles north of Quail, where his father and extended family had been farming since the turn of the century. Bill grew up in the Quail area, became a pilot and entered the U.S.Army Air Forces in World War II (WWII).…
