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1 month ago

On this day in 1945, five days after the 2nd atomic bombing, Japan announced it was surrendering and thus WWII came to an end. At about the same time that the Japanese government announced the surrender, my dad was strafing Tokyo in his P-51 that he had flown from Iwo Jima. He and his squadron never got the radio signal that Japan had surrendered and that the war was over. One of his squadron mates never made it home that day. On the way back to Iwo Jima, Phil Schlamberg, from Brooklyn, NY, flew into a cloud along side my dad but never emerged. Presumably, he was shot down by Japanese ground fire. Phil was likely the last US combat causality of WWII. My dad never forgot Phil or the 15 other members of his squadron who were killed during the war. My dad, standing in the center, and all of the other people in this picture, are no longer with us. May we never forget their heroism and the sacrifices they endured for the country. ...

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4 months ago

I know my dad would have spent today remembering the 16 members of the 78th Fighter Squadron who didn't make it back from the war, including Danny Mathis pictured with him in front of Jerry's P-51 on Iwo Jima. Thinking of my dad, and all those in service to the country, on this Memorial Day. I also know he would have been deeply disappointed that the country is not pulling together for the greater good in this current time of crisis. ...

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7 months ago

March 8, 1945. Iwo Jima. At 6:18, walking across the screen, and at 6:22, sitting on the hood of the jeep facing the camera, is Lieutenant Jerry Yellin, newly arrived on Iwo Jima the day before and about to pilot his first combat mission. Incredible that this film exists and that Jerry never got to see it. ...

78th FS, 15th FG Mustang P-51s Fly To Iwo Jima 3/8/45 (full)

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Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it. U.S. Army Air Forces silent Combat Subjects film #3360. Illegible Slate. B-29 flying....

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7 months ago

Today my dad would have been 96. Born February 15, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He fought to end tyranny and he lived for peace and reconciliation. He lives on in our memories and my family is grateful for that. ...

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8 months ago

In July, 1944, President Roosevelt arrived in Honolulu aboard a US naval vessel to meet with General MacArthur. As part of the greeting ceremony, two army airmen flew their fighter planes doing acrobatics for the President. My dad and his CO (I think in P-40s, the squadron did not have the P-51 yet). From my dad's autobiography: "We buzzed the destroyer [his error, it was a heavy cruiser], we did lazy eights, rolls, and loops; anything you could do in a fighter plane, we did--in perfect formation. We put on a fantastic show for President Roosevelt." It dawned on me while watching the Netflix series on WWII, which included the Roosevelt-MacArthur meeting, that maybe there's footage of the airshow. At 5:35 and 5:48 in this video, there's a 50% chance that the airplane flying past the cruiser is being flown by my dad. ...

President Roosevelt and Party Arrive at Pearl Harbor on USS Baltimore, 07/30/1944

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President Roosevelt and Party Arrive at Pearl Harbor on USS Baltimore, 07/30/1944 Creator: Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic ...

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