A soldier poses in front of a B-25 Mitchell named Hellzapoppin in 1943
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Photograph. A soldier poses in front of a B-25 Mitchell named Hellzapoppin. "This is a picture of a B-25 Mitchell ship bomber, with siren. We flew just over the heads of Japs firing guns, dropping bombs and blowing siren. Man in picture invented this rig." 1943
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1943-06-
1943-09-
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Benjamin Elmore Howze was born in Blodgett, Mississippi on 28 September 1923 and enlisted in the Army Air Corps at Barksdale Field, Louisiana on 18 October 1939. He served as an airplane armorer with the 13th Bombardment Squadron, 5th Air Force (Grim Reapers). Howze served in the Pacific Theater in the East Indies Campaign, Papua, New Guinea, Northern Solomons, Bismark, and Archipelago Campaigns. Howze received the Good Conduct Medal, Distiguished Service Badge, and the American Defense Service Medal. When he was honorably discharged at Shelby, Mississippi on 18 May 1945 he had attatined the rank of staff sergeant. After the war he married Imogene Graham and moved to Mobile, Alabama. Mr Howze passed away in 2009. The collection consists of almost 100 photographs from Howze's service in the Pacific, primarily from New Guinea.
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New Guinea
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-5.000
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140.000
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Nose art
Bombers--American--New Guinea
Flight crews--American--New Guinea