Interview with WW2 Vet. Russell Vaudrey - Part 2/2

WW2 Veteran, Russell Master Sergeant Russell Vaudrey served in the Army Air Corps during World War 2. After he enlisted, he was sent right away to Arizona to work as a mechanic on B-24 and C-47 airplanes. It wasn’t long after he arrived in Arizona that he was sent to New Guinea, and then on to the Bayok Islands near the Philippines, to continue to work on planes, until they needed more gunners to go on air missions. He became a part of the Jolly Rogers 90th Bomber Group, 400 Squadron and talks about seeing kamikazes up close, and how they shot down three of their bomber airplanes. He shares the importance that the island of Borneo was to the Japanese, and how before the atomic bomb was dropped, the Japanese were planning a huge air mission against the U.S. Navy in the Philippines. At the end of the war, Russell and his fellow airmen flew a reconnaissance mission over Nagasaki and describes what it looked like after the atomic bomb dropped, and how the location of the atomic bomb originally was intended for another area in the Pacific. I hope you enjoy hearing his interview. Thank you, Master Sergeant Russell Vaudrey for your service to our country.