Dad's first plane ride was in a B-29 off Tinian


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Posted by Chris Case [76.212.213.125] on Saturday, June 08, 2013 at 08:06:47 :

In Reply to: Re: OT. B-29 Ride Wednesady posted by JohnD [71.125.161.193] on Saturday, June 08, 2013 at 05:49:18 :

He was an ordnance handler- bomb loader- on Tinian. His training was all on B-24s with bombays dummied up to be like B29s, he never saw the top secret B29 until he got to Tinian.

He got to go along on a test ride, to check the bomb sight accuracy. They dropped a bomb on Rota, a little neighboring island. Seems there were some enemy abandoned there. The Air Corps used their vegetable garden as an aim point. Then he returned to the perpetual poker game.

The flight may have been a reward for saving some guys in a bomb dump fire, which earned Dad a Soldier's Medal.

I just found a pic of him next to a stack of bombs. Uniform of the day, shorts and cut down boots. Very buffed physique, from manhandling 500 pound aerial mines.



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