DARN, DARN, DARN!
Just received notice from Mr. Lock's son that another of my father's 330th as passed! Col. Vivian Lock died on 2 October 2010. He just celebrated his 90th birthday last month and had just returned from his 98th ARS reunion in Branson, MO. He was as sharp as a tack and I shall miss him dearly. He flew, B-24's off of the Aleutians, then B-29's
(City of Kankakee) off of Guam, then KC-97's in Korea and for over 10 years out of Lincoln, NE.
He had a great tale of watching three yellow nosed P-40's mock dogfight (showing off) in the Aleutians when one of them smashed into the other two. The remaining P-40 lost it's spinner in the crash and the sound it made while landing was remarkable.
Another was a raid to Paramushiro iinvolving B-25's and B-24's on 11 Sept 1943 with 10 out of 20 aircraft lost. He said it was horrific.
http://daily-journal.com/archives/dj/di ... ?id=462339Through my 330th BG website, I was able to reunite a Japanese man and Mr. Lock, who, 60 years prior was dropping incendiary bombs on this gentlemen's (then a small boy) town of Kumagaya, Japan. It was to be the last air raid of WWII.
http://www.jerryhammes.com/view.php?Sub ... ticleID=15http://www.frihost.com/users/sahitya/blog/vp-91263.htmlBlue Skies comrade.