ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – The B-29 bomber, also known as the Super Fortress, is most commonly known as one of the planes that dropped the bombs on Japan, ending World War II. Today only two B-29s are still flying. One is known as ‘Fifi’ and the other as ‘Doc’. Early Friday afternoon, ‘Doc’ made its […]
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It may have cost 40,000 lives, but the US firebombing of the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 1944 is one of the least known chapters of World War 2. Here is a rare account of this tragic event, by Stephen R. MacKinnon, history professor at Arizona State University and author of the book Wuhan 1938. The account is part of a paper which Dr. MacKinnon delivered in early September at an international conference in Chongqing on the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2 in Asia, and it is brought here with his kind permission.
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Francis J. Foley passed away on December 14, 2020 at 9:17 pm at Alton Memorial Hospital.
Born in East St. Louis, IL on May 17, 1924, the son of the late Francis T. and Lucille B. (Gardner) Foley of Fairview Heights, IL.
He married the late Jeanne Fischer on May 4, 1957, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Alton. She passed away on January 27, 1972.
He attended Holy Angels Grade School in E. St. Louis from 1930- 1938. He then attended Central Catholic High School in E. St. Louis from 1938- 1942, where he played baseball for four years becoming the Team Captain. Football and soccer and participated in the annual boxing tournament for three years. Francis graduated June 7, 1942. During the summers of ’42 and ’43 he played “Muny” Baseball in E. St. Louis. In September on ’42 he enrolled at St. Louis University. Francis served his country during WWII in the Army Air Force, having applied and been accepted into the Pilot Training Program in 1943. After