bigpigeon.us webpage WW II - Japan > US Air Force War w/ Japan > Seventh Air Force, updated by RAC 21 Oct 20201.
The Seventh Air Force WW II History:
activated Nov. 1940 as the Hawaiian Air Force.
Aug. 1943 joined the US Navy led Central Pacific campaign.
and was Okinawa-based by the end of WW II.
The Seventh Air Force WW II History:
activated Nov. 1940 as the Hawaiian Air Force.
Aug. 1943 joined the US Navy led Central Pacific campaign.
and was Okinawa-based by the end of WW II.
Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead - Seventh Air Force:
† Ingalls, Paul Irvin, SN 17-003-249, USAAF, Pott. Co.
- Taken from the bigpigeon.us WW II Dead webarea.
† Ingalls, Paul Irvin, SN 17-003-249, USAAF, Pott. Co.
- 392nd Bomb Sqdn., 30th Bomb. Gp, Seventh Air Force; the group, but perhaps not the squadron, was based at Nanumea, Ellice Islands; B-24 aerial photographer; KIA (sic, perhaps WIA) 28 Dec 1943 Marshall Is. (admitted to hospital on Canton Is. w/ a hemorrhaging bullet wound in thorax); US Air Force War w/ Japan > Seventh Air Force.
- 866th Bomb. Sqdn., 494th Bomb. Gp., Seventh Air Force, based at Yontan, Okinawa; Consolidated B-24J Liberator #44-40680 Lonesome Lady navigator w/ pilot Thomas C. Cartwright; KIA 28 Jul 1945, over Kure Harbor, Kyushu, Japan; plane shot down by flak on mission against Battleship Haruna; Japan US Air Force War w/ Japan > Seventh Air Force.
- Notes: of the crew of ten, Roy M. Pedersen's body was found on nearby land; two, including the pilot, survived as POWs; seven died as POWs 6 Aug 1945 from the Hiroshima atomic bomb. This story is documented in the book, A Date with the Lonesome Lady: A Hiroshima POW Returns, by Thomas C. Cartwright.