Natives admiring an American Air Force F4-U “Corsair” somewhere in the Pacific. 1943

Touching a bird of steel

B-17 waist gunner with his 50cal. machine gun, 1943.

Waist gunner

Crew of "Enola Gay" - (back row, from left) Major Thomas Ferebee, Bombardier, Captain Theodore Van Kirk, Navigator, Colonel Paul Tibbets, Commander, Captain Robert Lewis, Co-Pilot;  (front row, from left) Staff Sergeant Robert Caron, Tail Gunner, Sergeant Joseph Stiborik, Radio Operator, Staff Sergeant Wyatt Duzenbury, Flight Engineer, Private First Class Richard Nelson, Radio Operator, Sergeant Schumard.  Best regards, JR.