Gilbert
S. Guinn
Born: South Carolina, March 27, 1929
Served on active duty in the USAAF:
June 6, 1946 to May 19, 1949
February 6, 1951 to February, 5 1955
Total Military Service: 6 years, 11 Months, 12 days
EDUCATION
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 1949 - 1951
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 1951 - 1953
University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC 1956, AB in British and European History
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 1958, MA in history, minor in English
University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC 1973, Ph.D. in history
Dissertation: Coastal
Defense of the Confederate Atlantic Slope
TEACHING CAREER
Beaufort High School, Beaufort, South Carolina 1958 - 1960
University of South Carolina. Instructor in history 1958 - 1960
Stratford College, Danville, Virginia 1961 - 1965
Broward County Community College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 1965 - 1966
University of South Carolina, Union, South Carolina, Resident Director (Dean)
1966 - 1970
Lander College, Greenwood, South Carolina, Vice-President of Academic Affairs
and Dean 1970 - 1974
Lander College, Greenwood, South Carolina, Professor in history 1974 - 1981, 1982
- 1991
Derby-Lonsdale College of Higher Education, Derby, England, Fulbright Lecturer
in history 1981 - 1982
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Delivered paper
re "Aviation and the American Sunbelt at the Citadel Conference on Military Affairs,
1968
Delivered paper at the
Virginia Military Institute, c. 1988
Research in Canada,
1983 paper published in Air Power Historian
Research in Britain
and the United States, c. 1989
Keynote lecture at Arnold
Scheme 50th Reunion, London, England, 1992
Article "British Aircrew
Training in the United States, 1940 - 1945" published in Air Power History