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wayne s journal a life of a b 25 tail gunner with the 42nd bombardment group in the south pacific wayne s journal a life of a b 25 tail gunner with the 42nd bombardment group in the south pacific skip to content wayne his journal the people older posts glory for me posted on august 8 2015 by allen note glory for me is the final post of wayne s journal the first post can be found at https waynes journal com 2014 01 31 february 12 1944 saturday from glory for me by mackinlay kantor when you come out of war to quiet streets you lug your war along with you you walk a snail path on your back you carry it a scaly load that makes your shoulders raw and not a hand can ever lift the shell that cuts your hide you only wear it yourself look up one day and vaguely see it gone and one day it is gone if you are wise as quoted by john r bruning in the patriot journalist http theamericanwarrior com 2015 04 27 the patriot journalist accessed 26 april 2015 notes commentary and now that wayne s journal is finished i would like to recognize those who over the years shared their stories with me bob an infantry officer who was in constant action with the 80th infantry division of patton s third army from august 1944 until the end of the war he later became a history professor howard an army officer who oversaw the transshipment of lend lease materials at basra iraq these supplies trucks tanks etc were bound by rail for russian forces fighting on the eastern front later he led truck convoys traversing the desert between basra and haifa palestine the convoys were carrying troops on r r his tentmate and commander committed suicide during one trip he shot himself one night while howard was asleep bert who served as a member of a navy cb unit in the solomon islands new guinea and the philippines his legs were troubled with jungle rot throughout his life his favorite statement if you think this is bad you should have been in new guinea in 43 for him that seemed to cover every adversity jim a navy corpsman with a marine unit bound for okinawa he came down with pneumonia and was in the hospital when his unit shipped out he didn t make to okinawa all the corpsmen in the unit were either killed or wounded there his brother jay was a gunner radioman rm3 attached to bombing squadron six vb 6 aboard uss enterprise cv 6 neither he nor his pilot survived the dive bomber attacks on the japanese aircraft carriers at midway fred an enlisted man in the air force helped establish radio beacon sites in the north african desert these sites helped guide bombers home across the mediterranean from ploesti and other targets in europe art enlisted in the marines from a pennsylvania coal mining town in 1940 most of the marines in his regiment were killed in island invasions at war s end he found himself guarding a bridge in northern china his orders were to not allow any communists to cross the bridge jess a glider pilot survived the airborne operations of d day and market garden he talked of being strafed by me 262s freddie a black wac whose duty it was to guard italian prisoners of war working in the cotton fields of south carolina she picked up the italian pows in the morning and drove them out to the cotton fields she kept an eye on them during the day and drove them back to the camp at day s end easy duty she claimed none of them wanted to go back to the war crystal whose husband a navy officer was killed at pearl harbor she was there during the attack dick a cryptographer who was assigned at war s end to a graves registration unit charged with recovering bodies in burma he had homemade tattoos of skulls and bones on his arms the tattoos were done by fountain pen in drunken jungle camps after digging up bodies during the day harry who was a young lieutenant stationed at the presidio near san francisco when the war began he talked of the hysteria that ensued including a horse mounted cavalry expedition into marin county in search of invading japanese troops they came upon them in the night and while shrouded in fog slaughtered the lot of them in the morning the invading japanese troops turned out to be a herd of sheep the owner was well paid to keep his mouth shut cecil was an enlisted man in the philippines captured by the japanese he suffered through the bataan death march and years of captivity in japan where he was forced to work as a coal miner to the day he died he despised all things japanese lyle a b 24 pilot with the 8th air force 446th bombardment group 705th bombardment squadron once he returned home he refused to ever fly again ken a b 17 pilot who completed 50 missions with the with the 12th air force 301st bombardment group 419th bombardment squadron he later flew in the berlin airlift and crashed in soviet controlled germany bayard a signal corps officer who spent three years at a radio intercept site a top a hill in ethiopia lawrence who helped to install radar warning devices on the bombers of the 8th air force jack who was at a training base in mississippi when the second atomic bomb was dropped he said everyone went absolutely wild when asked why he replied we realized we weren t going to have to die stephen navy ensign who made an urgent trip ashore on an invasion beach with an encrypted message only to find it was a routine message regarding a food shipment bill an army doctor at anzio mike who lost a friend at tarawa jay an enlisted man who helped filter penicillin from urine at an army hospital in scotland lyle a member of a navy armed guard unit on a cargo ship off okinawa he was wounded during a kamikaze attack chubby who bragged about combat service but who was in an army basic training camp in colorado when the war ended little billy a b 17 ball turret gunner with the 8th air force he enlisted the day he graduated from high school he stayed in the air force after the war and retired as a lieutenant colonel always a colorful character he liked to note that he was born in oklahoma but conceived under some trees along a river in texas he served in the air force for over 30 years burt a plumber who showed up one day with photographs of him serving in the infantry during the battle of the bulge in one of the photographs he was sitting on two frozen bodies while eating his lunch after the war he was famous for his pet monkey which he took everywhere bergie a marine radio operator who served in the pacific albert a mechanical engineer who was an officer in wehrmacht he served on the eastern front norman an army dental technician whose unit was one of the first into the concentration camp at ebensee in austria even in his 90s he could still smell the camp and the dead and dying waldo whose only son died on an unknown beach in the pacific peter who with his mother survived the nazi occupation of the netherlands their family and relatives were exterminated in concentration camps while they hid with whomever would shelter them an infantry officer whose name i have long since forgotten he survived the normandy beaches only to have his jeep was blown up by a land mine the week after d day john who spent the war between cairo and istanbul with the oss he later became an art history professor and wrote books on islamic art hazel viola and the other women who served as codebreakers in the u s during world war ii they have never received the recognition accorded their counterparts at bletchley park jane who was a women airforce service pilot wasp she once told me she had a pilot s license before she had a driver s license she always brought her short snorter when she came by to talk walt who served in the infantry during the invasion of north africa dick an 8th air force pow who was liberated by the russians he travelled across russia in the back of a truck on the way to repatriation at a crimean port lucinda and david whose fathers served in world war ii only to be called back for korea friends gary alan judy and becky four of the at least 183 000 american children who were 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