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Hap Chandler

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Just before the firebombing of Dresden, B-24 navigator Hap Chandler flew a mission there but when his flight arrived, the target was obscured by a smoke screen. Fortunately he spotted a railroad yard that made a fine secondary target. It was on that mission that he saw one of the new German rocket planes. (6:26)

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It took three navigators. Hap Chandler was the pilotage navigator which meant that he sat in the nose turret with a map and looked for ground markers. Then there was a radar navigator and a dead reckoning navigator who fed instructions to the pilot. In the skies above East Anglia, it was an intricate ballet to get hundreds of planes in formation and carry out the mission. (7:13)

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It was an unbelievable sight. Hap Chandler was the navigator on the lead plane on a bombing mission to Hanover. The B-24 dropped it's load and turned around to head home. That's when he saw the entire rest of the 8th Air Force heading the other way. 1200 bombers representing a lot of lethal force. (3:02)

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The company clerk was Hap Chandler's buddy at the air base in England. He had completed his 35 missions but was due a week off so the clerk sent him to Edinburgh for a little relaxation. It was there that he met the future Mrs. Chandler but he had a little problem back at the base. They were saying he was one mission short. (7:29)

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He'd proven himself in the skies of Europe but Hap Chandler was not done. He flew as navigator on a B-26 in Korea in a type of warfare that was totally different. This time it was single plane missions, finding and disrupting the enemy at night. (5:50)

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B-26 navigator Hap Chandler recalls observing the release of American POWs by the Chinese at Panmunjom. They were greeted by chaplains, mail, showers and new clothes. He did lose friends in that war including his roommate who volunteered to fly extra missions. (5:31)

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B-24 navigator Hap Chandler pays tribute to a dear friend from the war, George Brown. Brown led his bomb group to the furious battle in the sky above Schweinfurt where he witnessed some incredible sights. After the war he became a respected professor of mathematics. (1:39)

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Hap Chandler gives his impression of kamikaze attacks in the Pacific based on stories from his friend, Captain Jim "Hoss" Williams who was in the 77th Infantry Division. (1:31)

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Hap Chandler recalls a story told to him by Captain Jim "Hoss" Williams (77th Infantry Division) who tried to get rid of an annoying subordinate in an unconventional way in Japan. (:55)

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Hap Chandler retells the story of his friend, Captain Jim "Hoss" Williams (77th Infantry Division), meeting Ernie Pyle, a famous war correspondent, before being attacked by the Japanese. (1:16)