Aircraft information and those on board were:
B29-#42-63678
Nickname: MANIUWA
Crash time: July 26, 1945
Crash position:No. 3, 2 chome, Shiraishi-cho, Kawasaki
Affiliation: 402 BS, 502nd BG, 315th BW, 20th AF
Attack target: Mitsubishi Oil Refinery and Hayama Petroleum Center at Kawasaki
Cause of crash: Anti-aircraft gun

ACCapt. Henry G. Dillingham
P2nd Lt. James D. McGlynn
N1st Lt. Willis S. Orner
B1st Lt. Theodore W. Reekstin
RDOM1st Lt. Edward R. Morrow Jr.
FES/Sgt.Charles J. Bordino
ROMS/Sgt.Harvey J. Dempsey
LGS/Sgt. John P. Cary
RGSgt. Joseph T. H. Leblanc
TGSgt. John. F. Greene

  • Missing Aircrew Report (MACR) # 14793
  • Coned by searchlights and shot down by flak on approach to target. Aircraft crashed into the Nippon Casting Company factory at No. 3, 2 chome, Shiraishi-cho, Kawasaki.
    From Penny (Dempsy) Yazzie:
    The entire crew is buried together at Punchbowl Cemetery in Hawaii. Their graves are directly in front of the memorial and next to Ernie Pyle. Gaylord Dillingham's father was a prominent Oahu businessman who was instrumental in not only getting the cemetery there but also in having the crew be the first buried there on the day Ernie was buried. If you have never visited, it is a most beautiful site. Three of the crew members, my father included, are still listed as missing in action and share one grave site. Something I am hoping to correct one day.
    Larry Miller
    July 11, 2006