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| In order to get there (South Pacific) we departed from
      Hamilton Field in California to Hickam Field in Hawaii, and then
      onward.
       Above: Loading the B-24.  | 
  


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      Above, L-R closest to bottom of photo, 5 young men:  Frank Nutter,
      Grover Fanning, Stowe, Milby
      Marling, Gil Millif.
       They put us in a bomb bay of a B-24 sitting on a 2 by 12-inch plank. We put our baggage aboard and asked the pilot, "please don't open the doors!" Myself, Ralph Wandrey & others in the 9FS were on this flight.  |