The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

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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