This weekend I was going through my grandfather's stacks of papers from his time in the service. He was a part of the greatest generation, served in the Pacific Theater during WWII and then went into the reserves for another 20 years or so as a weather officer. He kept a lot of things...some really wonderful and some pretty useless.
I started going through some of the boxes yesterday and came across a few pieces of history. Most notable were the paper from Barksdale, LA for V-E day, where he was stationed out of and his wife was living at the time. The other was his maps and notes from flying as a part of the show of force on V-J day. He was a navigator on the B-29. Fun story from his notebook that I also found: they were flying above the clouds from Guam the morning of the show, but once they dumped down below the clouds as they got closer to Tokyo they could not find their formation so they just hopped into the first formation they saw that had a vacancy in it.
I thought there may be some people here who could appreciate these.
I started going through some of the boxes yesterday and came across a few pieces of history. Most notable were the paper from Barksdale, LA for V-E day, where he was stationed out of and his wife was living at the time. The other was his maps and notes from flying as a part of the show of force on V-J day. He was a navigator on the B-29. Fun story from his notebook that I also found: they were flying above the clouds from Guam the morning of the show, but once they dumped down below the clouds as they got closer to Tokyo they could not find their formation so they just hopped into the first formation they saw that had a vacancy in it.
I thought there may be some people here who could appreciate these.
