Jumat, 01 April 2016

Replacement B24 Okinawa

B-24 Liberator of 494th Bombardment Group departs Yontan Airfield.As the war in the Pacific was ending, substitute crews were eager to fly…even if it killed them VOICes outside his tent woke Second Lieutenant Omer Kemp. By habit, he reached under the pillow for his .45, stood, and pulled back the tent flap. On the moonlit sloping path, instead of Japanese infiltrators, Americans were …

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