75 YEARS LATER, HE REMEMBERS Davis Helped Fly General To See Missouri En Route By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com 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…
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MISSION in TOKYO BAY MacArthur Wanted Surrender – And To Hear Army-Navy Game By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – At the end of World War II, Sgt. Wallace Low remembers a particular assignment while stationed with his communications unit in Yokohama Bay to handle communications during the Japanese surrender. “General (Douglas) MacArthur wanted to listen to the Army-Navy football game,” he said. “Our orders were to set up the receivers so that he could get the entire…