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Current Address:
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13504 Durant N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87112
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Email:
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Family Information:
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Parents: Lee and Mary; Wife: Barbara; Children: Randy, Lana and Terri.
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Hometown:
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Farley, NM
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Date Entered Service:
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December 10 1943
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Service Number:
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18221163
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Bomb Group:
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468th
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Squadron:
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793rd
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Location of Unit:
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Tinian - June 1945 to October 1945
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Missions Flown:
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13 or 14
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Hump Missions Flown:
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Targets:
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Awards/Decorations:
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Air Medal, Distinguished Unit Badge, Asiatic-Pacific Theater Ribbon, Air Offensive Japan, Eastern Mandates, Western Pacific Campaign
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Service Schools Attended:
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Aerial Gunner 10/1/44; Tail Gunner ; Flexible Gunnery School
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Military Specialty(ies):
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MOS 611-Aerial Gunner, Tail Gunner
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Rank Upon Discharge:
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Sergeant
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Crew Type:
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Flight crew
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Airplane Serial No.& Name:
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42-65276 Raiden Maiden II
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Were you a POW?
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No
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If so, where?
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Were you interned?
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No
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If so, where?
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Date Transferred from the 58th:
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Ocrtober 1945
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Date Discharged from the 58th:
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April 21 1946
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Post-WWII Military Service:
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Post-WWII Civilian Occupation(s):
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Farming and Ranching; New Mexico State Police -- 30 years -- Retired as a Captain in 10/1/85
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Thoughts on the 58th Bomb Wing:
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Comments:
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I went into the Army Air Corps as a Cadet and after 12 weeks of Army Basic Training in Amarillo, TX, I was told they had plenty of Pilots, Navigators and Bombardiers and I was going to gunnery school at Fort Myers, Florida.
B-29 training at McDill Field, Tampa, as a Tail Gunner -- Kearney, Neb. -- California -- Guam -- Tinian -- Saipan -- Shipped home on Marine Dragon, a Merchant Marine ship -- Oakland, CA -- Fort Bliss, TX.
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