Re: War time buddies

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

B-29s  flew out of Kadena,Naha AB was the home of the 51st FIW.
les      A LongAgo Airman
----- Original Message -----
From: <RonaldS842@aol.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: War time buddies


>
> In a message dated 5/29/02 1:54:33 PM, swan@haysco.net writes:
>
> << Beth, I think all the services used the rotation system. I know the
Army
>
> did. I came home on "points" in 1952.
>
>  >>
>
> Hi Beth-
>
>    At times the Air Force did not. During the early part of the war we
were
> so short of everything, including air crews, that guys had to fly for the
> duration. I had friends flying combat in B-29s out of Naha and there was
no
> rotation. It got so bad that some crews would return from a mission and
get
> in another plane to fly another mission. Some of the guys wrote to their
> congressmen back home to see if they could get some kind of relief.
>    I know the army and marines were so short of platoon leaders that it
was a
> crisis. Of course platoon leaders didn't live long enough to rotate.
>
> Ron
>