AN ARCHIVE OF ISSUES OF 'MEMORIES'
(as published by the 40th Bomb Group Association)


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  • Issue #1, LeMay Flies to Anshan with Cornett, September 8, 1944

  • Issue #2, Battle Damage Over Singapore, February 24, 1945

  • Issue #3, Ditching - First B-29 Combat Mission, June 5, 1944

  • Issue #4, Bomb Loading Accident, Chakulia, India, January 14, 1945

  • Issue #5, Submarine in the Harbor, February 18, 1942

  • Issue #6, Rangoon Mission, December 14, 1944

  • Issue #7, A Tale of the White Gods, Summer 1944

  • Issue #8, Tokyo Missions, May 24, 26, 1945

  • Issue #9, First B-29 Combat Mission, June 5, 1944

  • Issue #10, Gun Battle Over Japan, October 28, 1944

  • Issue #11, The Battle of Kansas, Part 1, Spring 1944

  • Issue #12, The Hump - Rocks in Those Clouds, July 2, 1944

  • Issue #13, The Battle of Kansas, Part 2, Spring 1944

  • Issue #14, The "Dixie Mission" to the Communist Chinese, Summer 1944 to Spring 1945

  • Issue #15, To Omura and Return, November 21, 1944

  • Issue #16, Forced Landing at Turning Point, June 19, 1944

  • Issue #17, The Day the Earth Exploded, August 7, 1942

  • Issue #18, The Bomb Explosion at Chakulia, More Recollections, January 14, 1945

  • Issue #19, The "Rock", February to June 1943

  • Issue #20, Supply Missions to P.O.W. Camps, August27 to Seprember 20, 1945

  • Issue #21, Bail Out and Rescue of Jim Lyons Crew, February 26, 1945

  • Issue #22, Going Overseas, Part 1, January - April, 1944

  • Issue #23, Cloak and Dagger in Calcutta, 25-31 December, 1944

  • Issue #24, Going Overseas, Part 2, February - April, 1944

  • Issue #25, The SNAFU Mercy Mission, March 7, 1943

  • Issue #26, Construction Projects on Tinian, April - June 1945

  • Issue #27, The Day Hunter's Crew Confounded the Japanese, 26 Sept 44

  • Issue #28, The Funny Things - Part 1

  • Issue #29, A Flight Over The Galapagos Volcano, Spring '43

  • Issue #30, Christmas at Pratt, 1943

  • Issue #31, Lucas & Crew Show a B-29 to the President, 20-23 February 1944

  • Issue #32, The Rangoon Disaster, December 14, 1944

  • Issue #33, The C-109 Fiasco, Late Summer, Fall 1944

  • Issue #34, Violent Weather Encounter, August 18, 1944

  • Issue #35, The C-109 Fiasco,Part II, Aug - Oct 1944

  • Issue #36, The Adventure of the L-5 Crackup, March 1944

  • Issue #37, The Walk Out from Rangoon Prison, April 1945

  • Issue #38, A Collection of Anecdotes About 3 Who Departed the Ranks in 1990

  • Issue #39, Dale Johnson's Account of the Bail Out over Tokyo, May 25, 1945 and being held in Kempei Tai Prison

  • Issue #40, Yawata: First Land-Based Bombing of Japan, June 15, 1944

  • Issue #41, Ditching in the Pacific, May 24, 1945

  • Issue #42, Bailout, Survival and Rescue in Siberia, August 20, 1944

  • Issue #43, Richard Vickery's Crew and the Nanking Mission, November 11, 1944

  • Issue #44, Part 2 to Issue #42, The Saga, in Russia, of the Crew of #829

  • Issue #45, #289, Nippon Nipper, Flying the Yawata Mission

  • Issue #46, A Near Miss - In A Vertical Sense, July 13, 1942

  • Issue #47, Mothering P-51's to Tokyo

  • Issue #48, The Funny Things, Part 2 (Various Dates)

  • Issue #49, And Then What Happened? (After Wars End)

  • Issue #50, Vignettes (Various Dates)

  • Issue #51, Vignettes #2 (Various Dates)

  • Issue #52, Ditching off the Africa Coast, June 1944

  • Issue #53, Snafuperbomber and Crew, Omura Mission, November 21, 1944

  • Issue #54, Tragic Loss of Ed Hornyia Over Formosa, October 17, 1944

  • Issue #55, George Olson and the Blown Blister Accident over Texas, December 1943

  • Issue #56, Two Missions from Tinian

  • Issue #57, Beaufighter Shoots Down B-29 #331 Over Burma, December 20, 1944

  • Issue #58, Patrolling in Defense of the Panama Canal, December 1942 to June 1943

  • Issue #59, Windmilling Prop Over Hamamatsu - Bail Out Over Iwo, May 19, 1945

  • Issue #60, Katie Harris and Some Poignant Memories of the Red Cross in Chakulia, 1943-1944

  • Issue #61, Rod Wriston's Crew Flies the Tokyo Mission of May 25-26.

  • Issue #62, Ledford Crew Makes It Back From Omura, October 25, 1944

  • Issue #63, Vignettes #3



    • A TRIBUTE TO BILL ROONEY
    This is to recognize and thank Bill Rooney for all ot his dedication and hard work involved in his efforts to publish our MEMORIES for these past 21 years. The amount of research required to authenticate and identify the correct dates, names,places and every aspect of publishing these papers has been a monumental task.It is things like these publications that have been the catalyst that have made our Association what it is today. Without them our Association would be just another Veterans group. With them we are a close knit extended family.
    THANK YOU BILL