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Greg....

Thanks for the photo, but that "Bugs Bomby" came after my dad's plane. The photo of him and his crew is posted in black and white and listed with the 7th Air Corp.

I have seen many B-24's at air shows and museums and have stood in the area of the open door when he was a door gunner. These guys had to have ballz of steel to face a high speed prop plane spitting bullets at you! The B-24 was known as the flying coffin because they were so sluggish. Despite that, his plane led the raid over Saipan.

My father never talked of heroics, what it was like to face an enemy fighter plane, crash on a beach and see his buddies die. He never spoke negative of the Japanese nor of the war. He was a kid (19) at the time as most were. He was one of the "greatest generation" and we, the younger pale in contrast to what these people did to preserve freedom. It was some war!

Bob