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The Seventh Air Force WWII History:

November 1940 - activated as the Hawaiian Air Force.
August 1943 - joined the US Navy led Central Pacific campaign.
was Okinawa-based by the end of WWII.

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† Ingalls, Paul Irvin, SN 17-003-249, US Army Air Force, 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).
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† Pedersen, Roy Marion Jr., SN O-2071822, US Army Air Force, Pott. Co.

866th Bomb. Sqdn., 494th Bomb. Gp., Seventh Air Force, based at Yontan, Okinawa; Consolidated B-24J Liberator #44-40680 Lonesome Lady navigator with pilot Thomas C. Cartwright; KIA 28 Jul 1945, over Kure Harbor, Kyushu, Japan; plane shot down by flak on mission against Battleship Haruna; Japan.
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.
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† Polzien, Donald LeRoy, SN 17-038-352, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co.

38th Bomb Sqdn., 30th Bomb Gp., Seventh Air Force; stationed at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Is. with Group headquarters at Abemama Atoll, Gilbert Is.; Consolidated B-24J Liberator #42-72999 engineer with pilot Howard T. Lurcott; aircraft crashed a few miles after takeoff from Tarawa for a Marshall Is. raid; crew of ten all died; bodies were recovered and buried on Tarawa, site was evidently lost; four bodies were subsequently found and identified.
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† Sundberg, Clark Gustaf, SN O-701016, US Army Air Force, Montgomery Co.

19th Troop Carrier Sqdn., Seventh Air Force, based at John Rodgers Airport, Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii; C-47A #42-100988 with pilot Glenn P. Randol Jr.; DNB 23 Jul 1944 Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Is., Central Pacific; plane crashed in shallow water on takeoff; all nine dead.
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