Z SQUARE 7, A B-29 TRUE STORY

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The Z Square 7 Crew
Z Square 7 Crew Families
Z Square 7 Crew Cemeteries.
Missing Air Crew Report
Z Square 7 Crew Military Funeral
Memorial Lt Eugene M. Thomas Jr (Marion, Al)
Memorial Lt Francis X. Glacken (Cambridge, MA)
Memorial Lt Norman B. Bassett (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Marcia Bassett McGrattan
Memorial Sgt George P. Demers (Lynn, MA)
Memorial Sgt George P. Demers (Lynn, MA)
Peter & Lillian Demers/Charlotte (Demers) Fiasconaro
Memorial Sgt Louis A. Dorio (Clarksville, VA)
POW-MIA-KIA Ceremony
Bill Mauldin With Willie And Joe
Father John McBride
S/Sgt Kenneth O. Eslick with Photo Album
Sgt Jesse S. Klein. 41-13180
Sgt James B. Rice, Radio Operator, C47, 42-108884
Frank Farr & Merseburg, Germany
Ivan Fail Introduction and "Long Before The Guns And Tanks."
Ivan Fail's "Tribute to the Queen"
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL
Frank Farr Poetry "November 2, 1944", "Old Men And The War", " Merseburg"
Zachary Taylor Nat'l Cemetery Memorial Pages Introduction
Zachary Taylor Nat'l Cemetery Memorial Crew Index
Zachary Taylor Nat'l Cemetery Memorial Page 1
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Ivan Fail's "The Tuskegee Airmen"
Memorial Page #1
Memorial Page #2
Memorial Page #3
Memorial Page #4
Memorial Page #5
Memorial Page #6
The Navajo Code Talkers & Native American Medals Of Honor
Ivan Fail's "D Day, The Normandy Invasion"
Ivan Fail's "When The Mustangs Came"
Ivan Fail's "Against All Odds - Mission Complete"
Ford Tolbert by Sallyann
Ford Tolbert Pictures
A Tribute to Lt Raymond "Hap" Halloran
Lt Raymond "Hap" Halloran
Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC, The Black Sheep Squadron
Lt Halloran Eulogy for Colonel Boyington
Omori POW Camp
Ivan Fail's "A Salute To Lt. Holguin"/ "Shoo Shoo Baby"
General Lemay's biography including a B-29 nose art photo album
March 9 and 10, 1945 Over Tokyo
Lt "Hap" Halloran on March 10, 1945
General Earl Johnson
General Earl Johnson Biography
313th Bomb Wing Mining Missions
Lt Robert Copeland, copilot, Z Square 8
Pyote Bomber Base With A Photo Album
"Hap" Halloran induction Combat Airman Hall of Fame
Blackie Blackburn with a photo album
Hap's Memorable Flight On FIFI
C. Douglas Caffey, A WW2 Veteran, Book Of Poetry
C. Douglas Caffey Collection Of Poetry
C. Douglas Caffey Poetry
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "Graveyard at the Bottom of the Sea"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "I Saw Liberty Crying"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "Old Memories"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "I Saw An Old Veteran"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "Flying Backwards"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "All Is Quiet On Iwo Jima"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "Bones In The Sand"
C. Douglas Caffey on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
C. Douglas Caffey With More on PTSD
C. Douglas Caffey Memorial Day Flying The Flag
C. Douglas Caffey Saying Goodbye To America
The Pacific Theater
Battle of Saipan, Mariana Islands
Saipan Medals of Honor
Battle of Tinian, Mariana Islands
Tinian Medals of Honor
Battle of Guam, Mariana Islands
Guam Medals of Honor
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima Medals of Honor
Cpl Ira Hayes, USMC
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa Medals of Honor
Ivan Fail's "The Saga Of The Superfortress"
Ivan Fail's "The Silent Sentries"
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"There are many unanswered questions...things we will never know about the fate of the Z Square 7 crew and other crews, but in remembering we can be proud of who they were, what they did, what they stood for, and what they were a part of."
                                   Lt. Raymond "Hap" Halloran,
                                   B-29 Navigator 
                                  "Rover Boys Express"                              

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to the website dedicated to the memory of the Thomas Crew who flew the B-29, Superfortress, Z  Square 7, 42-63486.  They were assigned to the 73rd Bomb Wing, 500th Bomb Group, 881st Squadron stationed on Saipan.

Let me introduce you!

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Readers will understand how the Thomas Crew and the others flying the B-29, Superfortress, and other Army Air Corps bombers were a major force in bringing Japan to surrender without the ground invasion of the Japanese mainland scheduled to begin November 1, 1945 that would have had at least a million American casualties.  Readers will see how heroically the United States military performed in Europe and the Far East.

 

 

Be prepared for an educational and a patriotic experience. 

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The Crew of Z Square 7

 

Standing L to R: Lt Eugene M. Thomas, Jr., Pilot, Prattville/Gadsden, Al; Lt Francis X. Glacken, Co-pilot, Newton Highlands Ma/Cambridge, Ma; Lt Norman B. Bassett, Navigator, Buffalo, NY; Lt Robert G. Phillips, Bombardier, Antioch, IL; S/Sgt Sam H. Bradford, Flight Engineer, Albany, Tx.

Kneeling L to R: T/Sgt Bishop K. Mitchell, Jr, Radio Operator, Lubbock, Tx; Sgt John F. Slater, Left Gunner, Shawnee, Ok; Sgt George P. Demers, Right Gunner, Lynn, Ma; Sgt Louis A. Dorio, Tailgunner, White Plains, NY; Lt William H. Hain, Radar Operator, Pittsburgh, Pa; M/Sgt Richard C. Armstrong, Central Fire Control, San Antonio, Tx.

 

Sgt George P. Demers was my stepbrother as his father, Peter, married my mother, Mildred, in later years after both their spouses had passed away.

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