Robert G. (Bob) Myers
Bob never shared the story of the last combat sortie of the war with me. After all, he was a typical humble "greatest generation" type of guy. I have now confirmed his aircraft commander's name is on that board row marked "66 and Aircraft Commander Chasey". See graphic at bottom of web page below, and Bob was on board that aircraft doing his job keeping all those big Pratt-Whitney engines humming and the fuel,oil and air coming. Some have speculated this Akita raid may have foiled a military coup that could have kept the war going on for many more bloody months. We may never know if that is true. The Japanese surrender was announced as the planes flew back to north field on Guam.
I have borrowed this information liberally from several other internet sources. I've done this to help give a better idea of their family history to my two children. Also to give them a sense just what a great man their maternal grandfather was since they were not fortunate enough to ever know him in this life. Most of my edits contain a "jtc" reference so you can tell what is going on with these borrowed resources. I hope that someone will stumble across this page someday and maybe provide additional missing details. I have now figured out his aircraft commander's name and the plane serial number for the "Ten Knights in a Bar Room" B-29 that Bob Myers flew in. I've also filled in the blanks of the other nine crew members. I have links to most of their memorials on findagrave.com towards the bottom of the page. Any information pertaining to the remaining one would also be welcome. If any of this information should not be used as I have on this page, let me know which portions are involved and I will gladly remove any infringing material.
Here is the link for where I got the mission details and much of the other information shared below from: www.315bw.org also portions from pages 422-424 of "Air Force Combat Units of World War II"
Very interesting diary of an aircraft tech can be found there under this link: Herb Bach story at www.315bw.org
This diary can give anyone a sense of what is was like to be deployed on that lonely hot spec in the pacific ocean all those years ago.
