Bill Greenwood
02-22-2014, 10:42 AM
Last night the outside visit from the convention was a private showing at the former Texas School Book Depository which is now a Kennedy Museum. It sounds a little macbre ( sp?) but it is a large part of history and interesting and something most everyone should see.
I am glad I went, and thanks to Ladd Gardner Ins for sponsoring this.
Tonight is more traditional and is Bar-B-Q dinner at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum.
More, later.
We just had a memoirs speech by Jim Yellin, P-47 and P-51 pilot near the end of the war.
Part of it was appealing, after basic in Phoenix in Stearmans, he was sent to Hawaii for 50 hours of P-40 training. Then on to combat. He saw the intense fighting and dying at Iwo Jima, then began 8 hour long range escort missions of B-29s over Japan. He was in on the last mission,when they didn't get the official word that the war wa over and he lost a wing man that flight.
It sounds like a soap opera, but after a lot of hostililty on both the U S side and Japanese side, after the war Jim's Son went to Japan and met and married a Japanese girl. Her family didn't like it, but her Father approved the marriage, and he had been a Kamakazi pilot who did not make the fatal flight.
I am glad I went, and thanks to Ladd Gardner Ins for sponsoring this.
Tonight is more traditional and is Bar-B-Q dinner at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum.
More, later.
We just had a memoirs speech by Jim Yellin, P-47 and P-51 pilot near the end of the war.
Part of it was appealing, after basic in Phoenix in Stearmans, he was sent to Hawaii for 50 hours of P-40 training. Then on to combat. He saw the intense fighting and dying at Iwo Jima, then began 8 hour long range escort missions of B-29s over Japan. He was in on the last mission,when they didn't get the official word that the war wa over and he lost a wing man that flight.
It sounds like a soap opera, but after a lot of hostililty on both the U S side and Japanese side, after the war Jim's Son went to Japan and met and married a Japanese girl. Her family didn't like it, but her Father approved the marriage, and he had been a Kamakazi pilot who did not make the fatal flight.