Recent content by Randy Rubel

Canton Island, planning the Tarawa raid Sept. 1943.

Maloelap atoll, part of the Marshall Islands after a bombing raid.

Address by Col. Hosopal, with Major General Willis Hale, Commander of the 7th AAF. Lt. William E. Rubel setting with arrow, wearing steel helmet.

September 19, 1943 - Canton Island to Tarawa (Gilbert Island Group) AC #41-11923. Left to right, front row- Lou Horton, Rufus Brown, C.P. Enman, William Goul, Don Watt. Back standing - William E. Rubel, William Welsh, Bob Farris, John Lieb, and Marle Richards. "FLYING 8 Ball" I, Randy Rubel...

Lt. William E. Rubel, Layte Island.

WWII Photos taken in the Pacific Islands

On the back of the original photo that I have reads "PUBLICATION AUTHORIZED BY ASST> CHIEF OF STAFF A-2 HQ> SEVENTH AIR FORCE."

I have an original photograph that my father had "April 1943 - "SAD SACK" over Naru Island. Photo by Don. L. Marquette. Taken from left waist gun door of "VALHALLA II, AC #168." Crew were Tinker, Wallingford, Rubel, Lewis, Bahr, Barber, Marquette, Mason, Andrewqueski. 11th Bomb Group, 26th...