Russ Gackenbach was the navigator on the photo plane for the Hiroshima
raid. He is 83 years old. It was a thrill for me to talk to Russ because the attorney that Anne and I used when we first moved to North Carolina was the radio operator in the crew. I never heard Warren Coble say anything about the raids and Russ said that no one on the crew knew anything about Warren because he was such a loner. Russ said that Warren never ever responded to requests and the Editor of "The 509th Remembered" said Warren never responded to his requests to write any memoire for the book. I got an autographed picture of the
Hiroshima blast that Russ took with his personal camera while on the photo run just after the Enola Gay dropped the bomb. The photo plane was the "Necessary Evil". The Ladies of Liberty are Andrew Sister impersonators and the are all trained singers that do a remarkable job. The Fairchild PT-26 "Cornell is a trainer. The last picture is a flame thrower in action during a mock battle. There are only a few that have survived from the war.
Russ Gackenbach was the navigator on the photo plane for the Hiroshima
raid. He is 83 years old. It was a thrill for me to talk to Russ because the attorney that Anne and I used when we first moved to North Carolina was the radio operator in the crew. I never heard Warren Coble say anything about the raids and Russ said that no one on the crew knew anything about Warren because he was such a loner. Russ said that Warren never ever responded to requests and the Editor of "The 509th Remembered" said Warren never responded to his requests to write any memoire for the book. I got an autographed picture of the 
Hiroshima blast that Russ took with his personal camera while on the photo run just after the Enola Gay dropped the bomb. The photo plane was the "Necessary Evil". The Ladies of Liberty are Andrew Sister impersonators and the are all trained singers that do a remarkable job. The Fairchild PT-26 "Cornell is a trainer. The last picture is a flame thrower in action during a mock battle. There are only a few that have survived from the war.
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