Seventh Air Force

Japan, Air War

The Seventh Air Force WWII History:

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

Sources for Big Pigeon's US Air Force War with Japan > Seventh Air Force webpage:

None at this time.

Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - US Air Force War with Japan > Seventh Air Force:

Taken from the bigpigeon.us WWII Roster module.

12-02 - US Air Force War with Japan > Seventh Air Force: (three dead, updated 7 Jan 2023)
† 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); US Air Force War w/ Japan > Seventh Air Force.

† 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 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.

† 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, TH; C-47A #42-100988 w/ 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; US Air Force War w/ Japan > Seventh Air Force.