Final Flights As American airmen fought overseas, a nearly forgotten war unfolded in the Northwest
I
T HAD BEEN less than three months since World War II officially ended in September, 1945. Millions of far-flung
servicemen were coming home, anxious to resume lives put on hold by history’s biggest, bloodiest conflict. Among them were two
written by Sig Unander
young Navy pilots and a flight engineer assigned to ferry a war-weary Lockheed Ventura bomber from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station to an aircraft boneyard in Clinton, Oklahoma.
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OCTOBER | NOVEMBER 2021
