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A celebration for Lt. Denny Thompson, a highly decorated World War II pilot and resident of Cedar Ridge, is being planned by friends and family in honor of his 101st ....
Eighty years ago today, July 30, a local airman lost his life over the skies of Holland. The ten-man crew of the B-17F, “Man-O-War”, part of the 91st Bomb Group, ....
Book World: Wrestling with the strategy - and morality - of the firebombing of Japan Diana Preston, The Washington Post April 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail - - - On the night of March 9, 1945, more than 300 U.S. Army Air ForcesB-29 Superfortress bombers took off from rudimentary airfields in the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, retaken from the Japanese the previous summer. Their mission was to attack a 12-square-mile sector of central Tokyo containing the highly flammable, densely packed wooden dwellings of thousands of working-class families as well as industrial and commercial buildings. During the three-hour raid their bombs ignited a firestorm that was so intense it killed 100,000 people and sent up a glow that was visible 150 miles away. When the returning B-29s touched down, teams fumigated them to dissipate the smell of burning flesh. In The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell ta ....