Thank you!

Comments: I want to thank everyone involved for all you have done and all you continue to do for all the veterans and their families, in the continued search and dedication in bringing these men and woman back home. You have given my family closure and peace of mind!

Thank you all for your continued effort and support and assuring the families that their loved ones are "gone but certainly not forgotten".

Sincerely,

Merrie L. Gibson Niece of Captain Richard H. Simpson

Keywords: CIL 2000-110 Colonel Douglas Hampton HATFIELD MSgt Robert Wilson JONES U.S. Air Force Captain Richard Harold SIMPSON Captain James Swayne WILSON, Jr. Captain Geroge (NMN) AARON U.S. Air Force Reserve

Looking for....

Comments: I am the son os Charles W. Easley who was the bombadier in the B-29 Fujigmo. I am looking for any other crew members. I know he was stationed on at Kadena.

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Searching for former members 1950-1952

Comments: My name is John (Bob) R Hemauer I was a S/Sgt and member of the 93rd bomb sqd, 19th bomb grp from 1950 to 1952. I was ncoic of the 93rd personal equiptment section on the flightline at Kadena AFB Okinawa. My job was issuing flight gear to our air crews and refilling the oxygen systems of our B-29s. Two guys that I worked with were Hugh F Poyer of Boulder Co. and David E McDougall of Bangor ME. Our OIC was Gorden T Caldwell Lt. of Avon Ct. and was also co pilot of the B-29 "Rock Happy". While visiting the SAC museum in Omaha Ne. a few years ago, I found a book titled "B-29 Photo Combat Diary. The Superfortresses in WWII and Korea. Written by Chester W Marshall and Warren Thompson. Published by Specialty Press, 11481 Kost Dam Rd, North Branch Mn. 55056 Ph 612-583-3239. You will find me on page 130 driving my tug with oxygen bottle trailers. What a suprise that was, seeing my self in that book. The following is a list of B-29s by tail number for those who might be interested, 44-62002,44-27262,44-87734,42-65370,44-70007,44-69802,44-6 2053,42-65361,44-61705,44-70012,44-61790. The following were lost during my tour, 44-86414,42-65369,45-21749,44-86370,44-62152,44-62025,44-6 9682. I would like to hear from any former members or members who remember me.

Keywords: Kadena AFB Okinawa, B29s, Rock Happy, Fujigmo, Jita

Adding my e-mail address

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LOOKING

Comments: IAM LOOKING FOR ANY ONE WHO WAS WITH MY FATHER KOREA WAR HE WAS A POW RODERICK G CONN DATE OF CRASH 01-22-52 HIS RANK WAS CPL AT THE TIME PLEASE CONTACT ME WITH ANY INFORMATION! THANK YOU HIS DAUGHTER NANCY.

Keywords: DATE OF LOSS 520123 TAIL NUMBER 44-87734 AIRCRAFT TYPE B-29 GROUP 19TH BMB WG SQUADRON 93RD BOMB SQ

Boghraphy

Comments: I Recently inherited military information on Lt Col Gerard Fallon. I am presently trying to put togehter a biography on my uncle. I was told that he was killed in a plane crash, I believe it was a B-29, but do not know when 1953? and where this took place and any other information you may have on my Uncle. I have bits and pieces of information but not enough to complete his history. Anyone who can help me I would Greatly appreciated it. Thanks, Joe

Keywords: 93rd Bomber Wing, Lt. Col. Gerard Fallon

93rd Bomb Sqdn- Korea

Comments: I was a radio operator in the 93rd from may of 1950 untl June 1951. Iwas on crew#1, acft com. Capt, John Williams. Would be interested in hearing from any old members of 93rd. I have a few black and white nose art pictures of 19th bg B-29s. I also have a copy of some orders that awarded some medals and unit citations.The aircraft named Dead Jug was considered our crews aircraft. Tom Protiva

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93RD BOMBWING Approx 1955-57

Comments: Looking for anyone who may have been at Castle airforce base 1955-57, my father Don Bowden worked on bombing & navigation equipment on the B52. He was in the 93rd bombwing, thanks

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Do you know my Grandpa, Captain William Royal Fisher.

Comments: My Grandpa was offically KIA in January of 1952. My brother has been locating people who knew Captain willian Royal Fisher. My mom is his daughter that he never knew about. I have a few pictures, but would like to find more and maybe hear some stories. Thank you for all who took time to read this! Sincerely, Brandi DeAnne Smith

Keywords: aircraft - "DOUBLE WHAMMY"... 93rd bomb squadron, 19th bomb group

DOUBLE WHAMMY

Comments: Jon Lawrence Law: Your e-mail address is no good. Please contact me, my uncle was CFC gunner.

Also George (AL) Wedsworth of Florida, no reply to emails. thanks, Roger Caldwell

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looking for crew members

Comments: Looking for anyone who remembers my Father, would be extremely gracious for any information from anyone who served with him

Keywords: served in 93rd bomb squad aboard B29 from 1946-1948, 4118th B29, and 91st strat. recon group as radio operator, I was told he had a nickname called "Sparky"

NO SWEAT - B-29 Operations in Korea

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Subject: Book Announcement - NO SWEAT by Bud Farrell, B-29 Gunner Korea 1952

"If you don't laugh and cry at times within moments of each other while reading this - as I did while writing it - I will be disappointed!" Bud Farrell

"I have essentially finished reading NO SWEAT...I found it refreshingly different from most books because it is constructed in such a way that one can read an article, look at photos, news clippings, and other items without losing continuity. In other words, it is easy to read. The book is well written and does not contain most of the typos found in other self -published books. You are to be congratulated on your attention to detail that resulted in an excellant end product. Your memory must be superb." - Lucien Thomas, The "Gunner's Gunner"... with 400 Missions with The R.A. F. & USAF 8th Air Force WW II, The 19th Bomb Group & 13th Bomb Group Korea, Vietnam

(Author of PINTAIL THREE, NEVER A DULL MOMENT, & R for ROBERT)

"...I laughed and cried a number of times, some while even on the same page." -

Ted Parker WWII B-29 Combat Crew Member, 3/20/04 ?Your Christmas Homecoming (HOMO GO) brought tears to my eyes. Really! Thank you for making me remember how lucky I am!? ? Londa Boots, Assoc.Dir. Author Services, 1st Books. Publishing Co.

?Bud, I read all your postings, some times with tears, others with laughter but always with enjoyment?. ? Don Brzezinski, WW II B-29 Combat Crewman

?EVERYBODY STAND UP"..."I thought I was in that airplane. You should take up writing or maybe you have.? -Earl Johnson, USAF Maj. Gen. Retired, WW II B-29 Aircraft Commander & 19th Bm.Gp.C.O.,Orlando, Florida

?NAMSAN-NI?What an excitingly told tale. Your ability to tell a story is a wonderful gift. You bring it to life as if we were really there!?

Jean Allen, WW II B-29 Combat Crewmember - WAS really there!

BUD LIGHT - ??I laughed my ass off. Great stuff, if the rest of the book is as good, it should be a best seller.? ?Don MacHenry, Graphic Artist, New Kensington, Pa.

? I read your story with Tears?? ? Iris Fry, B-29 Web Site

?OH BABY! I was right there?rocking in my chair to gain momentum?go GO! GOOOOOOOOOOO!!! What an excellent piece?EVERYBODY STAND UP?you made it so real?amazed at how you can vividly describe so much! I almost feel like I am sitting on your shoulder, feeling what you feel, taking in all your emotions. Oh what a wonderful work!! I love you my HUBBA HUBBA GUNNER!? Susan Bryan, Lt. US Army, Poet/Writer, Computer Artist I said in the NO SWEAT Book Mark that I hoped that readers might laugh and cry within moments of each other - as I did while writing it....and now I have heard that from just one person so far and that is quite enough...but I had heard the same from a young woman at the copy shop in Durango 3 years ago who kept a copy of the original manuscript...but what does a woman know about war...just her husband, sons, sisters, fathers, brothers, cousins, daughters... her very heart and soul that she gives up...that's ALL!! You can preview part of just one story (of 85 short nonfiction stories, 350 plus pages, 85,000 words) excerpted from narrative EVERYBODY STAND UP! by accessing the below and/or following listed book review site link in blue. You may also to order NO SWEAT then if you wish. http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/18182

NO SWEAT and/or "YO!" can be purchased at http://www.1stbooks.com or by calling 1-888-280-7715 OR I will also be glad to take orders here in order to sign with a personal note and perhaps save you a buck or two, postage prepaid and in a padded envelope, at $ 28.00 vs. $ 30.25 from the Publisher (at $ 24.50 + $ 5.75 postage)...OR even $ 25.00 if purchased locally and no postage is required. My phone number is 520-818-9257, ground mail address is 38171 S. Golf Course Drive, Tucson, Arizona, 85739. I have lost track of many of our mutual friends so if you talk to any, please let them know about NO SWEAT ( my Korean War B-29 Combat Crew Memoir) and also "YO!", (my family and personal memoir)! And "YO" to YOU...Thank you for sharing my memories and friends! Sincerely Bud Farrell

Keywords: Cheyney's Crew 1952

April 12 - Kimpo

Comments: I was on the landing strip assigned as a crash photographer this unforgetable day and saw the sky go dark with aircraft headed North on April 12, 1951. I recall only B-29s in tight formation and they made a combined noise on the ground of one steady roar. I seem to remember it took about 30 minutes before the last of these bombers had disappeared from my view.

We were told they were headed for the border with China. It is my guess it was the last true air armada, the greatest since World War II.

Several hours later our public address system at K-2 began announcing "May Day!" and we with cameras were told to Jeep it out to the tarmac as the first of the crippled aircraft came limping in at about 1,000 feet and in our direction.

The first bomber barely made it over a distant knoll of a hill and was trailing smoke from one or more of its 4 engines. No wheels were down as it slowly approached the steel grating of our runways. Fire engines and several ambulances waited with their operators at the ready. I had a SpeedGraphic 4x5" camera and began shooting my pictures.

This first aircraft hit the grating in a perfect flat glide and began breaking up as it slid past me, scooted sideways, slid some more, and stopped.

The plane was little more than a beer can full of holes and black smoke continued to billow out of several dead engines. I saw no fire and so approached the aircraft on foot along with the emergency personnel. One of the pilots was dead, the tail gunner had been ripped out of his little work space and was not part of the aircraft we found on the ground. I had only a few minutes to see what I could before the public address speakers called out a second "May Day!" and warned us that it, too, was approaching from the North.

A road building tractor came up to the side of the first aircraft and quickly shoved it off the tarmac. The steel grating was clear of wreckage only a minute or so when the second bomber came in over the hill. We on the ground repeated our tasks for this second one and, for what I can barely recall, three or four other aircraft, as well - each damaged and carrying what was left of its dead and injured crew members.

Blood and body parts covered the interiors of these aircraft. Gaping holes made by cannon rounds made it seem impossible that and of these planes had remained airborne.

I believe my pictures of these crashes on April 12, 1951 and the pictures of S/Sgt Michael Russo, may be found in Air Force archives in Washington DC. I have no pictures to share, sorry to say, except for the one in my diary displayed in Barker's Korean War Project.

Jack Morris AF 19328825 Sgt - Korea (1950-1952)

Keywords: Kimpo, K-2

I haven't forgotten

Comments: Served from July 1950 until March 1952, KadenaAFB, Okinawa, 93rd Bomb squadron, B-29's, Radar and electronics,

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50-52

Comments: 1950-52, Kadena AFB Okinawa, USAF Radar and Electronics, 93rd Squadron, 19th Bomb Group

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B-29 Top Gunner (CFC) Okinawa

Comments: This aircraft is at the bottom of the E.China Sea. I was a B-29 Top Gunner returning from N.Korea, lost 3 engines and ditched 9 miles from Okinawa, Kadena AFB. Oct.31,1952. Only 3 survived the two hour ordeal in the ocean, during one of Okinawa's famous typhoons.

I spent 2 weeks in the hospital and then went back to flying more combat missions, no, I'm not a hero, I had no choice! but everything worked out okay. I'm married, 5 kids, 14 grandchildren and 1 Great-grand -daughter.

If you told me, back then, that I would have this many kids and grandchildren, you know what I'd say, (you'r full of S---!)But I thank God for this blessing and for my life.

Chuck Rees

Keywords: B-29 Nose Art "Lubricating Lady" #44-61751

Friends of George Morauske

Comments: Would love to talk to some of the pilots my father instructed and also friends of his. Since my father passed away in '98 have had a hard time with stories and pictures of what kinda man he was, I was only 3 when my mother and father were divorced and though have seen some pics would love to here some stories from his buddies, I know he was well loved by his friends and family we just missed out on alot of the great things he did for his country. Would love to here from some of you.

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B-29 TOP GUNNER (CFC)'52/'53

Comments: Flew combat, night missions, to N. Korea. Our Aircraft has serious engine malfuctions upon returning to Okinawa, lost 3 engins and finally had to ditch, nine ( 9 ) miles from Kadena air field, during a Typhoon, in the East China sea. I was one of three survivors. I am now a retired oil co. Engineer and worked for Getty Oil Co for 20 years. A night I shall never forget (OCT. 31 1952 )

Keywords: Chuck B-29, nose art "NO SWEAT"

I Have Photos-Need Help Figuring Out

Comments: Hi… I am the "archivist" for my family…Long story short…my Dad passed away and I have a lot of his photo's and articles… (My Uncle was also shot down in Nam)I am familiar with a lot of my Dad's career and have been piecing it together…however, I don't know anything of his bomb era and would like to tackle that area next…perhaps somebody can point me in the right direction? My Dad was Col J C Seagroves (aka Conny), he flew the SR71. But his earlier days are photos by a sign that includes "449th Bombardment Wing" "716th Bomb Squad" "908th Refueling Squad" Another set of photos from 67th Bomb Sq 44th Bm. Wg…… Patches that I haven't figured out are 449th Bombardment Wing 93rd Bomb Sqdn (has an indian) and a Pelican with a missile.

Also, in looking at the stamp on the back of some photos I am now learning about the 600th photo squad- all fascinating to me! Dad wasn't a photographer but has a few shots from the 600th and also from a SSGT Ron Smith 7th AF DXI….

I have some photos that are "after hours" that are a hoot-can't figure out who/where...My guess is Kadena....

Jenny Seagroves Dunn

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Refueling 1946 to Date

Comments: The Enlisted Heritage Hall at Gunter Annex to Maxwell AFB, home of the SNCO Academy, is the only hall dedicated to Air Force enlisted achievements. Exhibits include many firsts for enlisted personnel; gunners, jumpers, engineers, aircraft death (Frank Scott, ref Scott AFB), and many other recognitions. AF Medal of Honor citations, Air Force Cross citations, enlisted pilots, and many celebrities that served as Air Force enlisted personnel. However, there is not one item on in-flight refueling operators of any kind. Do you know of any enlisted personnel that participated in the development and testing of in flight refueling equipment and operations starting in 1946 and continuing to the present? Please contact me so we can honor those who gave the Air Force a great "force multiplier". Who has the original SMSGT Al Evans Award? Fess-up! Thanks, Jim Harris

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FUJIGMO

Comments: MY GRANDFATHER WAS A CREW MEMBER (BOMBADIER)ON THE B-29 (FUJIGMO)HIS NAME IS CHARLES W. EASLEY. I KNOW HE WAS STATIONED IN KADENA. HE WAS ALSO ON A B-25(RECON VERSION)AS A CAMERA OPERATER/NAVAGATOR IN WW2. DURING WW2 HE WAS IN POE ITALY?

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FUJIGMO

Comments: MY GRANDFATHER WAS A CREW MEMBER (BOMBADIER)ON THE B-29 (FUJIGMO)HIS NAME IS CHARLES W. EASLEY. I KNOW HE WAS STATIONED IN KADENA. HE WAS ALSO ON A B-25(RECON VERSION)AS A CAMERA OPERATER/NAVAGATOR IN WW2. DURING WW2 HE WAS IN POE ITALY?

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Flyin 93rd

Comments: Crew Chief, A/C B-47B-II, 51-12221, "C" Flight with Charley Hart, Bob Ellrich, Rocky Roth, Kenny Parsons, and Frenchy Grenier. A/C was Maj. V. L. Pfantz, C/P Capt. Keith Walker, AOB Capt. Bob Reynolds(a Great Crew)

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Searching for Family or Friends of MIAs

Comments: I would like to make contact with any family or friends of the following MIA’s that were assigned to the 93rd Bomb Squadron: Capt. Donald L. Adams, Houstonia, MO, 1st Lt. James Argetias, Denver, CO, 2nd Lt. Michael Bochnovic, Jersey City, NJ, M/Sgt. Albert B. Carlson, Lebanon, MO, Capt. Raymundo Delgado, El Paso, TX, Capt. William R. Fisher, Levittown, NY, Capt. Robert G. Harvey, San Diego, CA, 2nd Lt. John H. Haun, Overland, MO, T/Sgt. Shields T. Henson, Cincinnati, OH, A2C Harry T. Peoples Jr., VA, A1C William W. Rose, Quincy, MI, A1C Jimmy C. Sides, AR, M/Sgt. Marvin E. Sleppy, MN, A2C Donald H. Wilson, IL. If you have any information on any of these men, please e-mail me at the address provided. Thank you very much. Ray Sestak

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