[BP2]

Madelyn Payne Dunham worked on a Boeing B-29 assembly line in Wichita. Her husband, Stanley Armour Dunham, enlisted as an Army soldier in January 1942. He served in Europe with the 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Company, Aviation. During D-Day (June 6, 1944), his unit helped to support the 9th Air Force, deploying to France six weeks after D-Day. He was discharged from the Army more than a year later on August 30, 1945.

It has been rumored that Ann Dunham’s father, Stanley Armour Dunham (purportedly a Marxist), had been suspected of espionage during World War II and that Boeing has a 1944 security file on either him or Madelyn Dunham in connection with suspected sabotage of B-17 aircraft at its Wichita plant and the theft of B-29 blueprints.

If true, it's obvious that Boeing could not make any charges "stick". However, it may have prompted the Dunham’s to pick up and leave any Kansas problems behind — Kansas, where Stanley Armour, Madelyn and Ann Dunham were ALL born — eventually settling down in Seattle, home of another Boeing aircraft plant, before finally winding up in Hawaii in 1960.

[nolongerademocrat]

Interesting stuff - (also take note of that photo of them together - his uniform is not right...)

[bluecat6]

The Dunhams were in Wichita when the most advanced bombers were being made: B-29s (not B-17s). The B-52 started its production in Wichita and then its production was moved to Seattle.

Interesting how the family moved between these two locations without having connections to Seattle at all.

Spys? Or counter-spys?

And as a reward did they get go to Hawaii?

Where some communist-connected black man (two choices) impregnated their daughter?