(Click on any thumbnail to see a larger picture. All pictures are set to open in a new window. To return here, just close the window you're in.) All of one crew had a police background and flew as "The Three Cops" -- Bill Ricketts, Harold Egbert and Bill Cowan. Cowan (shown at left), gunner for the Three Cops, eventually acquired Ricketts' much handed about motorcycle -- a valuable piece of transportation. Vernon Delp, right, checks out a parachute to Lt. Ben J. Roth. Billy G. Dawson helps Stanley Woodall in an essential job -- the correct fitting of the chute. Norman (Bud) Miller loads the wing guns with 50 caliber ammo at Iwakuni. Robert (Tony) Catone puts a final adjustment on a top gun turret. Richard (Willie) Williams, right, supervises the loading of a bomb onto the shackles of a wing at Iwakuni. Russel Pichette, Iwankuni in 1950, uncrates a frag bomb for the next mission. Robert M. Meyers carries an M-47 fire bomb to the plane. We are glad he did not drop it! Mascot "Whiskers" and pups at Iwakuni in 1951. (Whiskers was known to mess around.) RETURN TO 1st IWAKUNI PAGE RETURN TO "OUR SCRAPBOOK" Home