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The Boeing B-29A was an improved version of the B-29, assembled only at Boeing's Renton plant. It featured an improved wing design and a four-gun forward top turret. The new wing…

Memorial Page: Daniel R Ahern Jr · 09 Jan 2013 You

504th Bombardment Group over Mount Fuji 1945. Mount Fuji was a critical navigation point for the B-29 crews and it was there that the Japanese would rise in their Zeros, Tojos,…

Image, found in SePennartz's uploads: 504th_Bombardment_Group_over_Mount_Fuji_1945 · 07 Dec 2012 You

Harry C. Miller enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 13 December 1940 from Roanoke County, Virginia. Served as an aircraft mechanic on B-18 and B-17 bombers at Borinquen Field,…

Image, found in WWII US Air Force Photos: Page 1 · 29 Nov 2012 You

JANE DOLORES CHAMPLIN Class 43-W-4 Trainee Born: May 14, 1917 Chicago, Illinois Graduate: Arcadia College St. Louis University Jane entered flight training to become a WASP at…

Image, found in SePennartz's uploads: Jane Dolores Champlin · 15 Oct 2012 You

NOTE: The National Archives has an incorrect entry for Sgt. Richard T. Connell of Waukesha County, WI; along with an incorrect ASN as 16156645. ASN 16156645 actually belongs to…

Memorial Page: Richar L Connell · 21 Aug 2012 You

This WWII ASN was assigned to Elmer Frank Smith (Colonel, USAF Retired)

Spotlight: O-434166 · 17 Aug 2012 You

Elmer Frank Smith: enlisted (ASN: 19002477) Army Air Corps Aviation Cadet on 2 June 1941 at Los Angles, California. commissioned 2nd Lt. (officer ASN: O-434166)

Memorial Page: Tull K McGuire · 17 Aug 2012 You

On 9 April 1943, while at Gowen Field, Captain Hansen wrote the following letter home to his parents: "Dear Mother and Dad, Just a line to let you know that all my back mail…

Memorial Page: Harold M Hansen · 31 Jul 2012 You

Camp Kilmer was activated in June 1942 — the first staging area to be built solely for that purpose in the United States. It is also the largest staging area in the United…

Memorial Page: Joseph B Skrinak · 18 Jul 2012 You

MacKinnon aircrew - 412th Bomb Sqdn B-17F-65-BO “Lonesome Polecat I” #42-29693 BACK ROW 1st Lt. Malcomb B. MacKinnon (pilot) F/O Eugene W. Wood (co-pilot) 2nd Lt. William H.…

Image, found in SePennartz's uploads: Malcolm B. MacKinnon · 12 Jul 2012 You

Row 1 1. 1st Lt. Eastling, Donald W. Pilot 2. Captain House, Gale W. Flight Commander 3. 2nd Lt. Zajicek, Carl J. Co-Pilot 4. 1st Lt. …

Image, found in SePennartz's uploads: 95th BG_412th Bomb Sqdn Officers · 11 Jul 2012 You

Row 1 1. 1st Lt. Moore Photo Interprepter 2. 1st Lt. Murray Squadron Bombardier 3. 1s Lt. Kelley Squadron Adjutant 4. Captain Imes Squadron…

Image, found in SePennartz's uploads: 95th BG, 335th BS Officers · 10 Jul 2012 You

born 18 December 1909

Memorial Page: Murray C Miller · 13 Jun 2012 You

The Red Ball Express was, in the 1940s, an enormous truck convoy system created by Allied forces to supply their forward-area combat units moving quickly through Europe following…

Image, found in WWII European Theater Army Records: Page 446 · 23 May 2012 You

Respectfully suggest that B-29 #42-24808 (A-SQ-45) was flown by Barnes; while the Keith aircrew was in #42-63431 (A-SQ-44).

Image, found in WWII US Air Force Photos: Page 255 · 25 Apr 2012 You

The 877th Bomb Squadron was assigned tail code IDs: V-Square-1 thru V-Square-20. There were actually three B-29 aircraft assigned the V-SQ-11 tail code: #1). 42-63483 ditched 24…

Memorial Page: Wallace P B Ringham · 25 Apr 2012 You

The second tail ID coded V-Square-45, B-29 #42-24670 nicknamed "Ham's Eggs" was damaged in a 27 November 1944 Japanese raid on Saipan, and was transferred to the Depot on Guam.

Spotlight: V-Square-45 · 24 Apr 2012 You

The first V-Square-45 B-29 #42-24753 no nickname ditched on 11 March 1945 due to #4 engine fire.

Image, found in WWII US Air Force Photos: Page 877 · 24 Apr 2012 You

On a light turquoise blue disc, border triparted red, white, and black, a caricatured, brown and white condor with red head and yellow orange beak and feet, in flight toward…

Image, found in SePennartz's uploads: 877th BS emblem · 24 Apr 2012 You

Former Sheridan and Big Horn, Wyoming resident Marie Ellen Scheuer, 75, of Lakeside, California died Wednesday 10 April 2002 at Mercy Hospital in San Diego. Services are at Our…

Memorial Page: John D Scheuer · 13 Apr 2012 You