Mom was 15 when she heard the news. She ran home to be with my grandmother awaiting to hear news of her brother Tom's release from capture. He was crew on a B-25 Mitchell of the Air Apachees which was shot down on a mission over Wewak, New Guinea, on October 16, 1943. Radio Tokyo announced his capture with his home address given. At the time, the DOD (Department of War at the time) didn't have the new address so my grandparents knew he was alive at the time of the radio broadcast heard by ham radio shortwave listeners in the NW. He was never heard from again. Gil
