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Originally Posted by WCH
Assault Element
MSG Galen C Kittleson
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How timely the thread resurges just finishing a nightstand re-read of
Shadows in the Jungle. Most inspiring; I recall thinking, upon learning of the raid, "there's always a chance someone would, someday, try to come get me." That was pretty good fuel.
As an aside, I can believe the need for non-theater security/selection. My Dad confided to me before he passed that - after making his way thru the CBI, flying the Hump, and getting to Tinian - that there was quite the palatable level of resentment by some experienced operational B-29 crews that they weren't selected for the atomic missions. Not an uncommon sentiment.