![sargent mike 21 sargent mike 21](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e0/80/54/e0805429f34619aae75f87b82e6ffb68.png)
"You could always tell if anything happened by the expression on the crew's faces," added Pfc. Then we would sweat it out as one plane after another landed.We sure felt glad when ours would finally appear. It would be a long wait sometimes before the first appeared. We used to watch along the sidelines at thetime they were scheduled back. But then the enemy started their defenses working and our worries began. Hoeper, another recipient, was impressed with the long wait for the returning planes: "The first number of times it wasn't so badbecause we always surprised the Japs. I guess our fighter planes were just too much for the Japs."Ĭpl. Although we had a number of scares,we never were bombed. After each raid, the planeswould come back and we would have to iron out the kinks and bugs the engines had developed during their long flights. Gainey, one of the awardees of the battle stars, recalled most vividly how the GIs with him would have to rise at all hours of thenight to repair the B-29s: "The first two months were mainly experimental even though the B-29s were doing plenty of damage. The stars were awarded one each for the Air Offensive against Japan: the India-Burma Campaign the China Campaign and the Air Combat atPalembang, Sumatra.Īlthough recently united in the shop area, the men served at different stations of a bomber maintenance squadron with the 20th Bomber Command.Ĭpl. Nine GIs of the 9th Engine Overhaul who participated in the initial trials of the B-29 bombing raids are the proud wearers of four bronzebattle stars each as a result of their maintenance work during the period from June to October 1944. Mitchell from the 47th Supply Sqdn., Pfc. The others who just missed the boat last time are T/5 John R. put it: "If they gave me an hour's time to pack my stuff, I'd go crazy waiting around for 59 minutes." Are they ready to go? As one of them, Sgt.
![sargent mike 21 sargent mike 21](http://www.usspueblo.org/Prisoners/images/11_November_21_1968.jpg)
The Indian abetting the scene is a drummer whose favorite score is drumming up "Baksheesh."Įyes wide open, ears alert, and mouths ready to shout hallelujah, there are eight GIs on the Depot who, barring essentialism, are prettysure they'll be homeward bound when the critical scores are released, supposedly this month.įor each and every one of them has 84 points to their credit. Not the way the timber shredder on the right is seated and yet tomorrow he'll be able to walk without benefit of crutches or kinks cricking his stepping apparatus.Īnd in the lower pic is a wee Madame Lazonga tripping through her dance routine while her female aide is investigating the antics of acaptured cricket. In the top picture we present two sawing sahibs making tooth-picks the hard way. Tiger Rag - JBengal Air Depot - CBI Theater of World War II