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BLACKFIVE: Rome, GA Remembers
"I don't know about you, but I'm a history buff. And I'm particularly fascinated by WWII.
Unfortunately we're losing our WW II vets at an alarming rate now and we're missing out some of the most fascinating history there is - the personal stories of those who were a part of that great effort.
I was pleased to find out that one of the small cities here in Georgia, through its local newspaper, the Rome News-Tribune, has produced a very well done set of videos featuring local WW II vets along with their stories. It is very similar to Ken Burns "The War" but on a much more local level. It's fascinating and a very worthy addition to the oral histories of WW II.
There are 8 videos in the set and they're all worth the time to watch. But if you have to pick just one to watch, I'd suggest the one on Iwo Jima. Two Marines and a Navy Corpsman talk about that battle, what they saw, what they did and how it effected them and their lives. It is worth the few minutes it takes.
If anyone knows about more of these projects that are available on line, I'd love to know about them so I can feature them (mcq51atbellsouthdotnet)."
Remembering Midway on Blog Talk Radio
The Naval Institute Oral History Program has created a four-part audio series covering the Doolittle Raid, the Battle of Coral Sea and ending with the Battle of Midway. In it you can listen to Gen. Doolittle and others discuss the significance of these events.
Michael Yon : Online Magazine » News Flash: The Mighty Eighth
Written by Leslie A. Lennox, Lt. Col USAF (Ret), this article provides a fascinating look at the logistical effort involved in assembling 1200 bombers to carry out a strike on Germany. This article has little genealogical information, but should be read by anyone whose father or grandfather was involved in this effort.
Pacific War Chronology
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21 November 1944 (page 500)
JAPAN
Sixty-one of 109 B-29's dispatched from the 58th BW at Chengtu attack an aircraft factory at Omura with 199 tons of bombs; 13 B-29's bomb Shanghai and several others hit alternates and targets of opportunity. Six B-29's are lost in the day's operations, including one that lands in the Soviet Union and 27 Japanese fighters are claimed shot down. (This mission turns out to be the XX BC's largest of the war.)
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<!----------------------------------->58th Bomb Wing: Thirteen 58th Bomb Wing B-29's unable to attack the primary target in Japan attack Shanghai and other alternate targets of opportunity.
Sixty-one of 109 58th Bomb Wing B-29's dispatched from Chengtu, China attack an aircraft factory at Omura with 199 tons of bombs. Six B-29's are lost in the day's operation, including one that lands in the Soviet Union. This mission turns out to be the XX Bomber Command's largest of the war.
40th BG:
42-6275 "Snafuper Bomber" Bail out over China - Cowden Crew 1 KIA
42-6290 "Wempy's Blitzburger" Runway collision at Lianshan, White Crew462nd BG:
42-6278 Crashed in China Sea, Joseph P. Killebrew Crew
Joseph P. Killebrew, Captain, U.S. Army Air Forces, 0-433537
770th Bomber Squadron
Entered the Service from Tennessee. Died November 21, 1944.
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
42-93848 MACR 9864 Capt. McMillan Crew, Shot down by fighter, 4 Saved, 1 POW, 3 KIA by ground fire,- 3 executed.444th BG:
42-6321 "This Is It", Dunn Crew, 4 KIA, 7 Saved.
42-65204 Crashed landing near Ankang, China, Hutchinson Crew, 1 KIA468th BG:
42-6358 "Ding How" Interned Soviet Union, MACR 9865.
(Diverted to Vladivostok, last of 3 intact B-29's copied by Soviets for their TU-4 "Bull" bomber. Crew later allowed to escape through Iran.)
42-6362 Crashed on take off - Maisch Crew, 10 KIA, 1 Saved.Burma: Ten Tenth Air Force B-25's attack bridges at Bawgyo and Hsipaw, 37 Tenth Air Force P-47's attack troops, defensive positions and supplies at five locations, 28 P-47's support Allied ground forces around Bhamo and Pinwe and 15 P-47's attack targets of opportunity while sweeping the road between Kyaukme and Namyao.
China: Forty-two Fourteenth Air Force fighter bombers attack fuel dumps and the town area at Ishan and road and rail traffic and targets of opportunity around Chiuchiang, Foochow, Wanling (Burma) and several other locales.
A 426th Night Fighter Squadron P-61 crew downs a twin engine bomber near Chengtu Airdrome (58th Bomb Wing Base) at 2000 hours and another P-61 crew probably downs another twin engine bomber an hour later in the same area. A 40th Bomb Group B-29 is damaged in the Japanese attack.
42-6303 "Typhoon McGoon III"Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, the US China Theater commander, pledges maximum air support to an effort to defend Kunming against a major IJA ground offensive.
73rd Bomb Wing: The initial 73rd Bomb Wing B-29 mission to Japan is again grounded by bad weather over Saipan, fifth day.
Saipan: A Saipan based F-13 of the 20th Air Force's 3rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron is downed while photographing targets in the Nagoya area.
42-24586 3rd PRS, Pentecost Crew, 11 MIA
Ned Pentecost, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Forces, 0-659175
3rd Photographic Squadron
Entered the Service from Tennessee. Died November 21, 1944
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
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