The Hobday Connection

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Dane Hays

From the author: "
The historical biography The Hobday
Connection, a paperback book will be available
through AuthorHouse Books around 20 December
2012. Written by Dane Hobday Hays, 236 pages
with 25 photos.

The Foreword is written by author Frank (Bud)
Farrell.

This novel chronicles the lives of three
families from the 1940s to the present. Two of
the main characters are Airman First Class
Jimmie Hobday and Corporal John Spruell, both
from Cortez, Colorado.

John Spruell, childhood friend of Jimmie
Hobday, quit high school and joined the Army
just before the Korean War began. Assigned to
Battery B, 57th Field Artillery, he fought and
died at the Chosin Reservoir 6 December 1950.
John Spruell has a Memorial Marker in the
Veterans Section at the cemetery in Cortez,
Colorado.

Jimmie Hobday quit college, enlisted in the Air
Force as a Tail Gunner in a B-29 Bomber. He
was assigned to the 371st Bomber Squadron at
Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa. During a
bombing mission on 13 September 1952 his plane
was hit and exploded with a full load of bombs.
Jimmie Hobday has a Memorial Headstone at
Arlington National Cemetery.

Published by AuthorHouse

Price: Softcover $15.99

Ebook: $3.99
978-1-46850-214-5

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