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<br /> r<br /> b<br /> a<br /> e<br /> t<br /> l<br /> i<br /> e<br /> n<br /> g<br /> Bombs Away | 2022 | Volume 49 | Number 5<br /> c<br /> BOMBS<br /> AWAY!<br /> www.commemorativeairforce.org  THE DISPATCH 1<br /> EDITOR<br /> Leah Block<br /> CORRESPONDENTS<br /> Deveraux “Dev” Cannon<br /> Hank Coates<br /> Laura Kelly<br /> Randy Wilson<br /> ART<br /> Farrah Underwood, Designer<br /> PRINTER<br /> Knight Abbey<br /> COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE<br /> Physical Address:<br /> CAF National Headquarters<br /> 5661 Mariner Dr. Dallas, TX 75237<br /> Mailing Address:<br /> CAF National Headquarters<br /> P.O. Box 764769 Dallas, TX 75376<br /> (877) 767-7175<br /> info@cafhq.org<br /> www.CommmemorativeAirForce.org<br /> THE DISPATCH<br /> DIGITAL DISPATCH<br /> This and past issues of The Dispatch are available on the “Members<br /> Only” section of the Commemorative Air Force website.<br /> ©2022 by the Commemorative Air Force. All rights r<a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=1"> r b a e t l i e n g Bombs Away | 2022 |</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=2"> EDITOR Leah Block CORRESPONDENTS Deveraux “Dev” </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=3"> CONTENTS COLUMNS FEATURES 46 FLI</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=4"> H C enry “Hank” Coates AF President/CEO FLIGH</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=5"> OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FOR</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=6"> 6 SERIOUSLY CAN WE TALK? WITH BRIG. GEN. PAUL TI</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=7"> Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. about age 8. Following</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=8"> 8 “Well there was a calm cool guy behind him [pe</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=9"> not encouraging. He told Paul [angrily] that it w</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=10"> 10 “That is how close they [the Japanese] were t</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=11"> Paul Tibbets Jr. and Paul Tibbets IV together in </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=12"> AN M65 - General Purpose Bomb </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=13"> Fragmenta on Bomb INGS rab band </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=14"> Berlin Civilians watching an airlift plane land a</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=15"> Y ou don’t have to look </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=16"> 16 The Commemorative Air Force Florida Wing rece</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=17"> TRIBUTE TO GAIL HALVORSEN By Laura Kelly </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=18"> 18 SIX IMPORTANT U.S. BOMBING CAMPAIGNS </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=19"> O P E R AT I O N A R G U M E N T THE BIG WEEK (FE</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=20"> 20 W AT C H I N G THE WINGS MUSIC CITY WING By </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=21"> PT-19 N51263 was assigned to the Music City Wing </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=22"> August is Make-A-Will Mo</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=23"> GONE WEST As of March 2022 Richard A. Hyde . . .</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=24"> 24 BOMBS AWAY Photos by Bart Marantz</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=25"> </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=26"> WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS CAF COLONELS name </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=27"> WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS PRESERVATION COLONEL n</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, May 2022 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/a9b1bc2e?page=28"> P.O. Box 764769 Dallas, Texas 75376 </a>