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| S/Sgt Roland R. Johnson, Right Gunner, P-55 took his Final Flight 22 Dec 2007 |
| S/Sgt Pasquale "Pat" Mastromatteo, Tail Gunner, P-30, took his Final Flight 10 Oct 2007[more] |
| S/Sgt Lewis E. Howard, Tail Gunner, P-52/Repl TG, P-44, took his Final Flight 14 June 2007[more] |
| 1st Lt. Harold J. Pfeffer, Navigator, P-15 took his Final Flight on 11 Nov 2007[more] |
| S/Sgt Benjamin A. Piteo, Tail Gunner, P-15 took his Final Flight on 21 March 2006 [more] |
| Irene Foster, widow of Bud Foster, TG, Crew 48, notified us that she has been diagnosed with colon cancer [more] |
| S/Sgt Herbert L. Greer, Radio Operator, P-59 took his Final Flight on 30 August 2007 [more] |
| Sgt Edward T. Reilly, Tail Gunner, P-07 took his Final Flight on 15 August 2007 |
| 1st Lt Thomas H. Brennan, Navigator, P-44 took his Final Flight on 21 Jan 2007[more] |
| 1st Lt Daniel R. Jesser, Radar Operator, P-7 took his Final Flight on 21 April 2007[more] |
| Capt Francis Edward Smith, Navigator, P-55 took his Final Flight
on 25 March 2007[more] |
| Capt John F. Harvey, Airplane Commander, Crew 57 took his Final
Flight on 16 Jan 2007 |
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The Blackened Canteen |
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This book is about 5 Americans, Jack O’Connor, Monroe Cohen, Ken Colli, Newton Towle all who were crewmen on B-29’s who were killed in a mid-air collision on June 20, 1945 and buried by Fukumatsu Itoh alongside of the 2000 Japanese killed in the raid and Richard Fiske, the bugler on the battleship West Virginia when it was sunk at Pearl Harbor and three Japanese, Hiroya Sugano, 12 years old when his city was bombed in 1945, Takeshi Maeda, the navigator on the torpedo bomber that sank the West Virginia and Fukumatsu Itoh, a city councilman and Buddhist Priest. Only two survive today, Dr. Sugano, who is 74 and Takeshi Maeda, who is 89. |
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| Webmaster's note: The two B-29's involved in the mid-air collision were 39th Bomb Group (VH)'s Crew 42 and the 29th Bomb Group (VH)'s Everdon Crew. |
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FIRE FROM THE SKY - A DIARY OVER JAPAN
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"COMING
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