75 YEARS LATER, HE REMEMBERS
Davis Helped Fly General
To See Missouri En Route
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By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
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OTEGO – Last Friday, Aug. 28, Bill Davis wasn't thinking about the thunderstorm warnings for Otsego County.
He was contemplating Aug. 28, but the one 75 years earlier, when he was aboard a B-29 bomber high over the Pacific Ocean with a special sightseer, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander of the Southwest Pacific Theater, as World War II was nearing an end.
Below -- Radioman Bill Davis, 19, couldn't see it; he was crouched over his radio transmitter – was the USS Missouri, steaming toward Tokyo Bay.
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