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...cloudy morning in August 1945, the B-29 Great Artiste, commanded by Major Charles W. Sweeney of North Quincy, Mass., was flying over Japan. After 50 minutes' unsuccessful search for his target, Major Sweeney asked a naval ordnance observer, Commander Frederick L. Ashworth of Wenham, Mass., what he should do. Try Nagasaki, said Commander Ashworth. With just enough fuel left for a single bomb run, the navigator, Captain James F. Van Pelt Jr. of Oak Hill, W. Va., hit Nagasaki exactly "on the nose." The bombardier, Captain Kermit K. Beaham of Houston, saw a hole in the clouds...
...River. He played in the school band, starting with a big bull tuba but settling finally for a slide trombone. He went to Methodist Sunday school, stayed out of trouble, and was quiet almost to the point of being timid. "Nobody ever noticed Charlie Yeager much," says Lyle E. Ashworth, a classmate, "until 1943 when he buzzed the town in a P47 and sent old Mrs. Lon Richardson to the hospital with a case of nerves...
THOMAS L. ASHWORTH...
...This is an invasion," Panzerster Kirkster Zwonkus told a surprised radio audience as he finished a neat and un-Lampy-like job of trussing up lone, faithful candidate Henry Ashworth...
Plucky, 115-pound Ashworth almost quashed the invasion before it began by a vigorous policy of sabotaging the wiring system when he saw the brown enemy approaching. His attempt was cut short by the work of Quislingster Harrister Zwonkus, a Lampoon man who had been working for three days as a Network candidate, learning the ropes in the guise of a fledgling comedian...