The WWII Relatives thread

My father-in-law flew cargo and troop transport planes in the Pacific. He was one of the first pilots to land in Hiroshima after the bomb and he flew many supply missions there during the occupation.

Trained on B-26 bombers (a real hotrod of a plane) for the European campaign, letters home show he was extremely upset when they transferred him to the Pacific and put him in C-46 cargo planes (flying truck).

He died in 1974 of an extremely rare form of cancer. The VA covered everything, even as the government officially denied any connection between the cancer and his time in Hiroshima.