Please Send Ketchup: WWII Letters from a B-29 Pilot Volume 1

By Kit Crumpton

Please Send Ketchup, WWII LETTERS FROM A B-29 PILOT is a collection of letters written by the author's father intermixed with descriptions of B-29 Superfortress bombing missions over Japan during the last year of WWII. Excerpts' from Please Send Ketchup: May 26: Tokyo: Over four hundred ninety B-29s attacked Tokyo. This mission experienced the highest loss in B-29 history, twenty-six. Average bomb load 6.75 tons. Estimated total tonnage dropped is three thousand three hundred sixty tons....Dearest Jeanne, ...After the mission, I showered and ate and went to sleep. Got up this morning just fifteen minutes before class. I guess I slept or rested almost twenty hours. Boy, I was exhausted....Goodnight my sweetest.Your Loving Husband and Daddy, EinoP.S. At eleven o'clock I will kiss you goodnight.P.P.S. Please send me some canned food, ketchup, mustard, Jello, canned corn on the cob, pears, peaches, anything like that.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1543968694
• ISBN13: 9781543968699
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Bookbaby
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.9"