The original crew of Replacement P11, Censored Lady, flew together as one crew for the entire 27 combat missions and 3 Prisoner of War Missions during our combat experience against Japan. The only exception was the death of Cpl Milton Jacobs, the original Tail Gunner of our crew.

For the first month or so, after our arrival on Guam, as a new replacement crew, we were put through a training period. We flew practice missions, we dropped practice bombs on an island called Rota, which was a short distance from Guam, in the Mariana Islands. Rota was inhabited by Japanese military. After the war, thousands of these Japanese were found on the island.

During our period of training on Guam, there was a need for a Tail Gunner and Co-Pilot - each on different crews. Jacobs went with one crew and Little with another. Jacobs flew with Crew 16, their Tail Gunner, James Ogilvie accidently shot himself in the foot just before the gunner's briefing. Crew 16 was shot down; Jacobs' and 6 members of their crew were lost on 4 May 1945 - Oita mission; Pilot, James R. Little, who flew with another crew, returned, OK.

As a weird twist of fate - James Oglilive, was assigned to Replacement Crew 11 as Replacement Tail Gunner.

On 29 May Brooks and his crew participated in the daylight strike against Yokohama, Japan. While enroute to the target they were subjected to intense flak, but they unwaveringly held their course and successfully released their bombs squarely on the objective with devastating effects. At the moment of bombs away the entire preceding element was struck by a high concentration of anti-aircraft fire. Immediately, this crew realized that the bomber on their left had been mortally struck. Without hesitation Lt Brooks maneuvered their B-29 to provide the strickeh crew protective cover. As this crew troubled crew headed out over the enemy coast, quickly loosing altitude and speed, they desprately continued to fight off the vicious attacks of four enemy fighter aircraft. Replacement Crew 11 protecting the shattered crew, drove off the fighters, destroying one of them. Once out to sea the almost destroyed bomber was abandon by its crew. This crew circled the survivors until relieved by patrol aircraft.

If they was not enough on the way back to base, Replacement Crew 11 then escorted a second crippled B-29 back to base.

For outstanding airmanship and their courageous protection of their comrades, this crew was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, per GO 53 Section XV dated 4 September 1945, issued by HQ 20th AF.