V1943-00cover
From Model-T Mechanic To
B-29 Mechanic
Time Out for
Service 1943-1946 as directed by Uncle Sam
20th AF 19th Bomb Group
28th Squadron
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V1943-00cov-Index |
Time out for Service as directed by Uncle Sam |
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Ft
Logan CO, Induction |
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St
Petersburg FL Basic |
12 |
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Kansas
City MO. Airplane Mechanic School |
12 |
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Lincoln
NB, Airplane Mechanic School |
15 |
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Lincoln
NB, Instructor Airplane Mechanic School |
10 |
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Seymour
Johnson Field NC, Pre-Tech Engineering Cadets |
8 |
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San
Antonio TX, Pre-Tech Engineering Cadets |
2 |
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Yale
University New Haven CN, Engineering Cadets |
17 |
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Dodge
City KS, Engineering Officer |
7 |
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KS
to FL to CA to TX |
5 |
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Pecos
TX, Engineering Officer |
9 |
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Kerns
UT to Guam, by Boat |
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Guam
to 28th Sqd First
Day: Guam: 20th
AF Hdq: 314 Wing Hdq: 19th
Bomb Group Engineering: 28th Sqd Engineering: Assistant Eng Off
Day one |
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North
Field, 28th Sqd Area: North
Field Guam: 28th Squadron
Area: 28th Squadron
Ground Crew: Alert Crew: Home Made Scooter |
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Assistant
EO Weeks 1, 2, 3: B-29
mechanics 102; Packaging Horsepower; Engine combat life = 97 hours; “Blow By”
Crew; Write URs to Wright Field on Failed Engines; Valve Failure Pattern
Puzzle; Changing Cylinders a Bloody Job; Bernard B Bugg; Bomb sight mod for
Jet Stream; Electrical Solution: Clipping Trees on Take Off: Hardstands the
B-29's Home; Pre Take Off; Prop
Clips Parks Cap; Engine Noise and Liquid Locks; Stand by Crew; Lift off, two
per minute; Weaving through Traffic; Bomb Shackle problem; Incentive; Fuel Tank
Flak Damage; Solenoid failures; Electrical to Pneumatic Doors; Keough to
Group EO; Landau to Sqd EO; Reason for Valve failure pattern; Valve Failure
Fix – too Late
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28th
Sqd Engineering Officer: Maximum
Effort Missions; Engine Change, Repeated;
Back B-29 uphill with Cletrack; Fluxgate Compass Fix; Inversed
Throttle Link; Change in Modis Operandi; Wire Wrong to Make Right ; I'll Have
You Court Martialed; Weighing a B-29;
Scottie Salvos Bombs!’ Dear John; Air Inspector; Roar—Crash Eleven Dead; Moral Support for Test Hop;
“There are Japs in Jungle”; Mother Hen for P-51 Chicks; Mine Laying; Missions
against Oil Industry; No More Good Targets; Wings-N-Flaps; Abruptly the
A-Bomb |
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Land
Reload Take Off |
14 |
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Mission |
9 |
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Crashes
and Accidents |
10 |
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Guam
Natives |
4 |
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Early Quarters: Initial quarters; Second phase
quarters; Climate; Squadron Hdqs; Group Infrastructure |
5 |
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Our
Quarters: My
Quarters; Smitty’s Addition; Brownell’s Photo Kit; Printer and Developer;
Smitty’s Chemistry Set; The Still; Old Overholt; The 10cc Jigger; Liquor
Ration; Beer Can Opener; Lucky Throw; Defensive Reflex; Movies and Flash
Lights; Raincoats to Ponchos; Radio Repair; Laundry; Flight Line Washer; 39th
BG Club Opening; Do you have a Pen; Ground Officer Mess; Close Friends Ship
Home; New Friends |
8 |
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Personnel and Presidential Citation: 28th Sqd Staff wartime, 28th
Sqd Staff peacetime, 93rd Sqd Staff wartime, Engineering Awards,
Public Relations, 19thBG Presidential Citation, 28th Sqd Flight
Crews |
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Post war
part 1 Change in Mind Set, War Ends, Over Flights, The Navy Arrives, POW Supply Drop, I’m
Permitted to Go, How Dumb can you Get. Viewing the Devastation, Land on Iwo,
If Granddad could See This, Buzzing Nimmitz, Yellow M numbers, Homes for the
Homeless, 2/Lt to 1/Lt Over Flights, PW Supplies |
16 |
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Post
war part 2: Russians Keep a B-29; Rescue Yacht a Pleasure
Cruiser: Change Engine in Japan: Ham Radio: Inspector General Tales: Typhoon
Hits: Supplies to Okinawa: Cylinder Change at 20th AF Hdqs: Wave
#1, Nov 1945, Old Timers Go Home: Feather
Test Shuts down Field: Ailerons Torn Out: Maintenance Stands: Generals Jeep;
Strikes Across Pacific: Keep Planes Fit to Fly; Wave #2, Jan 1946 Last of Orig Ground Crews: Increased
in Rank -- Then Ship Home; I let Scottie Down: Start Diesel Power Plant: Down
to Clerk & EO |
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Production Line Maintenance |
10 |
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Rest
leave to Hawaii |
10 |
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Post
War Quarters: Post War Quarters: Basket Ball Court: Mess Hall
Consolidation: New Friends: Saipan Pool Table: War Time Housing Abandon:
Wycoff Left Behind |
7 |
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Empty Quarters, Webber and Wycoff, Mercury II 35 mm
Cameras, Peacetime ground crew, Predictable unpredictable, Fog Horn, Buzz
Field, The Fishermen, Equipment Grave
Yard, Pick a Plane and Fix It, Engine Change Post War, Setting up our New
Home, V-Disks, Letters from Ground Crew, Officer Club Photos, War Surplus,
Enough of Paradise, To Air Inspector for Release, Pack Up your Leaving. |
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Guam
to US by boat |
19 |
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DL
Epilog |
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Bob
Nelson |
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