Atomic bomb mission veterans recount Nagasaki drop memories
Veterans Earle Craig Curtis Erwin and Col. Bill Coombes join Ashworth and Olivi at the American Airpower Heritage Museum to discuss the 1945 Nagasaki mission. They describe targeting challenges, radar use, near failure, and reflections on guilt and war’s costs, noting the Trinity test and lasting impact.
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Tinian
American Airpower Heritage Museum
Confederate Air Force
Midland International Aiport
Earle Craig
Curtis Erwin
Air Force
Japan
Ashworth
Bill Coombes
China
Nanking
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Coombes
Trinity
Alamogordo
Kokura
Olivi
U.S. Airforce Museum
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Odessa blotter reflects sexual assaults and a beer-run arrest
A 41 year old woman reported an attempted sexual assault in South Odessa at 2 08 a.m. Friday with force causing arm and leg injuries. A 15 year old girl was assaulted between 8 p.m. and 11 45 p.m. July 15 in North Odessa. In a separate incident, off duty Odessa officer Wes Huse was injured while stopping a theft in the 2700 block of Andrews Highway. The suspect fled but was later arrested. bond for 26 year old Greg Leon Stamps was set at 15000.
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South Odessa
North Odessa
Odessa
Andrews Highway
Wes Huse
Charlie Burns
Huse
Burns
Bond
Greg Leon Stamps
Odessa Death Notices Briefs Highlight Local Residents
Mildred Ingram 75 of Odessa a retired bookkeeper died Aug 1 2000. Graveside services at Sunset Memorial Gardens church officiant Rev Chapman. Survived by daughter Deborah Byrd sons Jack and Richard Ingram sisters Alice Laster Dora Kamp Irene Slater and four grandchildren. La Nette Litton 44 an Odessa attorney died Aug 2 2000. Services Aug 7 details show burial at Rose Hill Cemetery. Survivors include mother Omega Litton brother John C Litton sister De Lara Smerud. Charles Benjamin Sonny Richards Jr 86 of Denver City a retired barber died Aug 3 2000. Service Aug 5 Trinity Baptist Church burial Gaines County Cemetery. Survived by wife Mary Richards daughter Sandra Folmar son Stephen Tabb sister Johnnie Lee Herford twelve great grandchildren. Bill Bailey 59 of Odessa died Aug 3 2000. Arrangements pending Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Louis G Lou Belvedere 75 of Odessa died Aug 4 2000. Arrangements pending Hubbard Kelly Funeral.
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Mildred Ingram
Odessa
Sunset Memorial Gardens
William Chapman
Frank W. Wilson
Perry
Okla
Deborah Byrd
Forten
Jack W. Ingram
Richard
la Nette Litton
Martinez Funeral Home
Johnny Dickerson
Rose Hill
Omega Litton
John C. Litton
Bryan
de Lara Smerud
Denver City
Yoakum County Hospital
Trinity Baptist Church
Jim Auld
Gaines County Cemetery
Seagraves
Ratliff Funeral Homes
Mary Richards
Sandra Folmar
Stephen Tabb
Sturgeon, Mo
Louis Belvedere
Louis G. “Lou” Belvedere
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Death notices information guidance from funeral home
Information for obituaries and death notices is accepted only from established funeral homes or confirmed by them. Notices received by 4 m will be published the next day. For more information call 333-7770.
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South Dixie
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Charles Benjamin
Sonny” Richards
Johnnie Lee Herford
Lake Charles, la
Bill Bailey
Odessa Regional Hospital
Sunset Memorial Funeral Home
Odessa American
J.B.S Parkway
Old Town
Iemp
Chiro Comfort
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