World War II
SGT Jack Fisher Estes
Army Air Forces-KIA

871st Bomber Sq,497 Bomb Group

B-29 #42-63418
"Jumbo, King of the Show"
Died 3 Jan 1945, Nagoya, Japan
View The History of the 497th. View the History of the 871st.
All of the crew lived through ditching in the ocean that day,
Five Were Rescued. The other crew members were lost at sea.

The Story of what happened the day they died.

Five of the bombers who attacked Nagoya that day went down.

An Actual film of the "Jumbo, King of the Show" sinking after the USS Grayson rescued them.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 26 Jan 1945 The Elk City Daily News 30 Jan 1945 (Jack's Father also was a Jack Estes)

Service Number 38432408 The Photo and article above were from: "Men & Women in the Armed Forces from Grayson County" Fort Worth Star- Telegram 24 Dec 1944 "Supers over Honshu Fight off 150 Planes." (Jack F Estes shoots one down) Memorial Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii

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