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29 May 1941: Aviation Cadet

Advanced Pilot Class 41-D, Brooks Field near San Antonio, Texas.

Subsequently underwent 4-Engine training, and B-29 combat crew transition, and assigned to:

Smoky Hill AAFld, Kansas, 1 July 1943

Walker AAFld, Kansas, 28 July 1943-12 March 1944

Moved to the CBI Theatre of Operations, via Africa

Piardoba, West Bengal, India, 7 April 1944

Assigned to Twentieth AF in June 1944.

Using the B-29, transported supplies over the 'Hump' to staging fields at the Chengdu Aerodrome in China before entering combat with an attack on railroad shops at Bangkok, Thailand, on 5 June 1944.

On 15 June 1944 took part in the first AAF strike on the Japanese home islands since the Doolittle raid in 1942. Operating from India and China, bombed transportation centers, naval installations, iron works, aircraft plants, and other targets in Japan, Thailand, Burma, China, Formosa, and Indonesia. From a staging base in Ceylon, mined the Moesi River on Sumatra in Aug 1944. Received a DUC for a daylight attack on iron and steel works at Yawata, Japan, in Aug 1944.

7 Dec 1944 - DNB: Returning to India after a mission to Mukden, Manchuria, iced-up and broke apart over China. On the return leg, they were required to take on additional passengers at Kiunglai (A-5), China for a ferry mission to Piardoba, India.

Air Plane Command (APC) Pilot, B-29 Superfortress serial #42-65213 nicknamed: "Carlalani" 770th Bomber Squadron, 462nd Bombardment Group (the "Hell Birds"), 58th Bomb Wing, XX Bomber Command, 20th Air Force, USAAF; CBI Theatre of Operations.

Sam B White