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Japanese WWII interview with Bedford High School recruiter
In 1944 Bedford High School principal backed George R Shaffer's Air Force enlistment. Shaffer, later in Frederick and now Monrovia, California, served as a B 29 radio operator with the 20th Air Force in a mass bombing of Japanese cities including Tokushima. Japanese reporters in Washington interviewed him for a Tokushima sister city series, asking about family, duty, and his wartime recollections as interpreter Mamoru O Hara translated.
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Bedford High School
Bedford
George R Shaffer
Frederick
Texas
20Th Air Force
XXI
Tokushima
Shimbum
United States
Saginaw
Midh
Shaffer
National Press
Washington, DC
Massion
Kyodo News Service
American Telephone and Telegraph
Monrovia
Frederick News-Post
Sheryl
Marial
George Jr
Michio Yuasa
Mamoru O'Hara