Blood Chits, Short Snorters & Nose Art: Robert Bindo Fain in the South Pacific

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Historic Stonington and VFW Post 3263 Present:
Blood Chits, Short Snorters, and Nose Art:
Robert Bindo Fain in the South Pacific
For Mature Audiences Only
 
 
Wednesday, March 4, at 6:00
Hugo A. Simonelli VFW Post 3263 
60 Stonington Road, Mystic. CT
 
Join brothers John and Scott Fain for a presentation about their father, Robert Bindo Fain (1923-1991), and his experiences in the South Pacific during World War II. A Mystic native, Fain was drafted into the Army Air Forces and served on board a B-25 bomber.  He flew in 57 missions and collected dozens of photographs, military records, and artifacts that tell the story of his experiences as a gunner in the South Pacific theater from 1943 until 1945. Many of these photographs depict “nose art”, decorative painting usually on the fuselage of World War II era airplanes, depicting women from popular culture.  Fain was shot down twice and awarded the Purple Heart. He later worked for the Cottrell Company and as a machinist at Electric Boat.
 
Scott Fain is a retired teacher and school principal. He received his undergraduate degree in secondary education and social studies from Texas Christian University and graduate degrees in educational administration from UConn.  In retirement, he works with the Connecticut Office of Higher Education to assist beginning teachers in the Alternative Route to Certification program. He resides in Ledyard.  
John Fain received his undergraduate degree in Environmental Design from UConn and a master's degree in landscape architecture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.   He is a retired landscape architect and lives in Westerly.

 For more information, please contact:
Elizabeth Wood, Executive Director
Historic Stonington
ewood@historicstonington.org
860-535-8445 x10