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Gene Frazier | 792nd Squadron, 468th Bomb Group, 58th Bomb Wing - Army Air Corps

4:03   |   Pilot trainee Gene Frazier took his first plane ride at Fargo, ND and dropped his first bomb there, a two pound sack of flour. At his next stop in California, actor Robert Cummings was his tough but fair instructor. After he got his wings, they made him an instructor, which was the last thing he wanted. Everyone else was going off to fly fighters! But two years after soloing in a 65 HP Piper Cub, he became the pilot of a 22,000 HP B-29 and prepared to deploy to the Pacific.

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