Great!
Janey... You’ll love this!
I had some ‘short snorters’ which my uncle sent me shortly after the war. He was a navigator on a B29 flying bombing missions over Japan. Upon his death many years ago, I gave them to his eldest son, my younger cousin.
As I recall, it was Chinese paper money taped together in a string, signed and dated by his fellow crew members after each mission. I wonder if this tradition is still carried on in today’s USAF?
My father was in a hospital in California recovering from wounds suffered while fighting on Okinawa in the US Marines, but he would have recovered in time to have taken part in the invasion, if it had come to that. He had no doubt that using the atomic bomb was the right thing to do.