| 1st
Lt. Richard Brinck , Ketchikan, Alaska (hence the name)
headed the "City Of Ketchikan" crew. The crew had its birth
at Davis-Monthon Air Base in Tucson, Arizona, in early July
1945. That's when all the men arrived and were assigned
to a B-29 crew for phase training. Completing the training
we were shipped by train to Kearney, Nebraska where we were
supposed to pick up our airplane. No plane was available
so we boarded a troop train to Hamilton AB, California and
ATC, via Hickman, Johnson Island, Kwajalien to Harmon Field,
Guam and then to the 39th Bomb Group at North Field. This
was July 1945. We became a replacement crew for P-6. "We
flew three combat missions" reported Hollis Logan. |
