Gene P Rutherford
Gene was the Flight Engineer on the B-29-15-BW-42-6365 "General H.H. Arnold Special", and spent 4 months as a "guest" of the Soviet Union. MACR 9664
https://obittree.com/obituary/us/cal...6013/index.php
Video interview with Lt Col Rutherford (retired)
http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/sto...0001001.stream
For those with fold3.com access
MACR 9664, 13 pages
https://www.fold3.com/image/38219369
Image of "General H.H. Arnold Special" nose art
https://www.fold3.com/image/55661567
"General H.H. Arnold Special" with crew. That's Gene standing center back row (4th from left)
https://www.fold3.com/image/46953255
"General H.H. Arnold Special" with ground Crew Chief M/Sgt Jack Hague
https://www.fold3.com/image/55664869
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"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."- referenced - J. Robert Oppenheimer
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