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On the road

Monday, February 25, 2013

Profiles Spring-Summer 2013 HFDFW


 

John enlisted the Army Air Corps in January of 1943 at the age of 18.

Soon after basic training, John was shipped overseas to the Pacific theater of operations. He was assigned to the 3rd Air Commando unit. His job was supplying the headquarters unit with vital material in which to conduct the war.

His most memorable experience was when he was on a troop train in occupied Japan at the end of the war.

John remembers traveling through the massive devastation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki shortly after the war ended.  He cannot exactly remember which city he was traveling through but the devastation of both cities was horrendous but saved probably a million Americans and Japanese and kept the war from lasting until 1947 or 1948 as some experts had predicted.

He left the AAF in January 1946.      

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