Contra Costa Times report: As Billy Bush sat in his dive bomber on the flight deck of the USS Hornet, he wondered how he would perform in combat. “There was always the question of, ‘Am I going to be brave?’” he said Saturday, seated in a below-decks mess hall on the ship he first boarded 69 years ago. He wondered [...]
Last week, the U.S. Army welcomed back to Okinawa a highly decorated Army officer who fought in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Retired Col. Ted Bell, 93, returned to Okinawa for the first time in more than 67 years, with a documentary film crew that is making a movie about his experiences as a company commander with [...]
The Atka B-24D Liberator bomber, located at its crash site in Atka Island, Alaska, played a highly significant role in World War II. In the Aleutian Campaign against the Imperial Japanese forces from 1942 to 1943–the only battles fought in North America during the war–it was a superb weapon. This aircraft flew in at least 18 combat missions before finally [...]
By Katherine Belcher, U.S. Army Garrison Torii Station Public Affairs Last week, the U.S. Army welcomed back to Okinawa a highly decorated Army officer who fought in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Retired Col. Ted Bell, 93, returned to Okinawa for the first time in more than 67 years, with a documentary film crew that is making [...]
As I glide across Victoria Harbor on the swift Mass Transit Railway, toward Hong Kong Island and the city’s gleaming skyline, no junks or sampans are visible. Walking the streets of the bustling Wan Chai or trendy Lan Kwei Fong neighborhoods, I see no rickshaws or women in traditional, snug-fitting cheung sarm dresses. After all, the metropolis of Hong Kong, [...]
Ed Sieber, a World War II navy pilot, will share his experiences with the 1945 sinking of the Yamato, the largest and most powerful warship of its time. The one-hour presentation is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7, the 68th anniversary of the sinking. The Museum of Military Memorabilia at Naples Municipal Airport invites the public to attend the [...]
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Don Moores War Tales tells the story of a B-24 tail gunner: Carl Driver of Alligator Mobile Home Park on Taylor Road south of Punta Gorda, Fla. was the tail gunner in a B-24 “Liberator” four-engine, heavy bomber dubbed “Passionate Witch.” They were part of the 13 Air Force, 50th Bomb Group, 23 Bomb Squadron that flew from a captured [...]
CNN Travel reports: The largest battle of the Pacific War was fought more than 65 years ago, but evidence and relics are easily found around the islands With the exception of the march across the Philippine island of Luzon, the battle of Okinawa was the only major American land campaign in the Pacific during World War II. Launched on Easter [...]
WWII Aircraft Facts No matter how one looks at it, these are incredible statistics. Aside from the figures on aircraft, consider this statement from the article: On average 6600 American service men died per MONTH, during WWII (about 220 a day). Most Americans who were not adults during WWII have no understanding of the magnitude of it. This listing [...]
A DAUGHTER of a crewmember from the 505th Bombardment Group is gathering materials for a book she intends to publish relating to her father’s and other crewmembers’ personal accounts of the war on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Garland, Texas-based Elizabeth Ann Hobbs Krenik, told Variety, “This project started with hundreds of letters my father wrote my mother during the war [...]
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