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Video: WW II Vets Honored at American Airpower Museum
Vets take flight in last B-29 bomber left in service.
The at Republic Airport in Farmingdale and the Commemorative Airforce B-29/B-24 Squadron teamed up Thursday to honor World War II veterans in a ceremony sponsored by The Bristal Assisted Living of Woodmere.
John Stubel of Garden City, 93, who was a crew chief on B-29s, led a mobile repair unit that supported the biggest four-engine bombers of World War II as squadrons of these aircraft took for Japanese targets from their bases in Saipan.
Walt Oelerich, of Farmingdale, was a Marine who stormed Iwo Jima in 1945. He got to ride in the vintage aircraft on Thursday.
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The B-29s were considered some of the most sophisticated aircraft of World War II, part of a strategy that brought “a rain of ruin” down on the Japanese homeland, leading to its surrender in September 1945.
The highlight of the event was when several veterans rode in the last functional World War II-era B-29 bomber in service.
