Any Landing Your Can Walk Away From is a Good One

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It was a rainy morning, and we were getting ready to start on the assigned mission. The procedure was to first inspect the outside of the C-46 for any obvious damage, and check all moving parts of the ailerons, tail elevators and the vertical tail. The length of the plane is 74 ft. 4 inches, with a ... more

 

Smoke from the Back of the Plane

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Our mission as army pilots was to aid Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Chinese nationalists in the war against the communists under the leadership of Mao Zedong in 1945.

My copilot and I met the Chinese raw soldiers at the C-46 cargo plane and we were to fly them to a designated field fro... more

 

Brothers in War

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This is the story of three brothers, two of whom were twins, and their service during the last two years of the war. It is about how Joseph and Emil ended up serving together and how they made a point of getting together with their brother and cousin as much as possible while they were in Europe. It... more

 

Remembering Eva

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My grandmother, Eva Jane (Anderson) Brook found herself in Glendale, California with two young children to care for and a husband that had volunteered for the Navy and was going to fight overseas. They had quite a family life together and spent considerable amounts of time with the entire family to... more