My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Small World: Aviators' Paths Crossed in War-- Part 1
From December 28, 2011, New Jersey Star-Ledger "WWII Vineland vet recalls war for interview with Millville High senior."
Paul Tuck, 90, was the top turret gunner and flight engineer on a B-24 Liberator and flew 22 daylight bombing missions over Germany and Austria during the war. He was shot down.
Bill Hogan was a tail gunner on a different B-24 and flew 16 missions in Europe before he too was shot down.
Both men met each other for the first time when they were being interviewed by Bob Trivellini, of the Millville Public School District.
Hogan lives in Millville and both men happened to be bombing the same target the day Hogan's plane was shot down and he ended up spending 11 months as a POW. (Trivellini's father was in the U.S. Third Army, 11th Armored Division which later liberated Mauthausen Concentration Camp which provided slave labor to Hogan and Tuck's target that day.)
Small World. --GreGen
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B-24,
concentration camps,
Liberators
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