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Mr. Misenhimer: Where were some places you bombed, you bombed Truk and what were some other places you bombed? Mr. Ebel: Well, we went to Marcus, Iwo Jima, Chichi, Haha, and Pagan Islands like that. Well, when my group started out, they came out of Hickam they went to Makin and Tarawa and then they went to Kwajalein in the Marshalls and that was in the first one then the Gilberts and then the Marshalls and then they moved to the Marianas and now in 1995 Dick David my radar man and I went back to Iwo Jima to the 50th Anniversary with the Marines and we went to Saipan there and after went and flew to Saipan and they had a big ceremony there, there was the CommonWealth of the Northern Marianas now. We talked about it and the govenor was there and he gave us a plaque and I have a medallion that he presented to us there. They flew us up to Iwo Jima and we landed there and we were there for a day on Iwo. We came back and while I was there, some guy asked me I was there and I told him my story you know. Why I was back there and when I got back home about a week later, I got a telephone call. This guy had said he had some pictures he had taken and said that he had another guy there and a guy had a 30 on his cap and I said, "yep, he was in the 30th group." That is what I was in when I was there. So, he said, "you told me that story, would you write it up and I would like to publish that story in the Leatherneck Magazine. After that I got a hold of my radio operator him and I we got
together and we wrote up the story and I mailed it to him and he did publish it in the Leatherneck magazine.
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Doyle Ebel. Ebel was drafted into the Army Air Forces in March, 1943 and trained at Miami Beach before going to radio operator school in Missouri. He also attended gunnery school before becoming a crewmember on a B-24 and shipping overseas in July 1944. He was assigned to the 26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group at Saipan in October. Ebel recalls an emergency landing on Iwo Jima. He flew 37 combat missions before the war ended and returned to the US in November, 1945.
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