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VeteranDad78 > Summer 2007 Fallujah photo
VeteranDad78 > This is not a Japanese fighter pilot. He's Ben Kuroki, the only Japanese "Nisei" ("second generation") who was allowed to fly with the U.S. Army Air Corps over Europe AND Japan during WWII. He was born an American citizen in Hershey, Nebraska. He's standing next to the nose of the second B-24 in which he flew as a top turret gunner, the "Tupelo Lass". He flew 30 combat missions over Europe and North Africa, including the famous raid over Hitler's oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, and then he was transferred to the Pacific Theatre, where he flew 28 more combat missions over Japan as a tail gunner in the B-29 "Honorable Sad Saki." Ben is still alive and well at 90 years old. Check out a documentary film about him to be released on PBS on Sep 17th, 2007, "Most Honorable Son." http://www.pbs.org/mosthonorableson/
VeteranDad78 > B-24 top turret gunner Ben Kuroki, American-born Japanese "Nisei" ("second generation"), the only Nisei allowed to fly with the Army Air Corps over Europe and Japan in WWII. On his leather aviator's jacket is the patch of the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy). Here he poses with his turret top, an obviously close call with flak from his 30th combat mission in the ETO over Muenster, Germany. Ben went to the Pacific Theatre of Operations after his ETO tour and racked up 28 more combat missions over Japanese targets as a tail gunner in the B-29 Super Fortress "Honorable Sad Saki", which was named in his honor by his pilot, Jim Jenkins. Check out a documentary film about him to be released on PBS on Sep 17th, 2007, "Most Honorable Son." http://www.pbs.org/mosthonorableson/
VeteranDad78 > The retracted ball turret in the B-24, looking aft.
VeteranDad78 > Summer 2007 Fallujah photo
VeteranDad78 > Summer 2007 Fallujah photo
VeteranDad78 > Me in the Turret, outside Falluja.
VeteranDad78 > 1 BLACK WATCH REGIMENT PREPARING FOR DEPLOYMENT TO NORTH BABIL, NEAR BAGHDAD. 1 Black Watch at the Battalion Headquarters at Shaibah Logistics Base in Al Basra Province, Southern Iraq, are preparing themselves for a deployment to North Babil in support of US operations. They are expected to fill in for the United States , who have been re-deployed to Fallujah in support of the main US operation in that area. The Black Watch are seen performing routine and final preparatory maintenance tasks such as changing the wheel tracks and cleaning the armament on their warrior armoured vehicles. Pictured- Image by LA(PHOT) Paul A’Barrow. Date- 18/10/2004.
VeteranDad78 > Spc. Doug Furlan, Colorado Springs, sits in the Gunners Turret, as he prepares for the all night convoy for Fallujah. photo by Rick Egan 9/27/2005
Summer 2007 Fallujah photo
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