Copy negative of an aerial view of a bomb target in the desert at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Photograph of an Private Andy Smith at Army camp in Cloudcroft, New Mexico.

Interview with Richard (Dick) Bennett, a pilot during World War II. He discusses his enlistment in the Army Air Corps, basic training and flight school. He then went to a base in South Carolina to learn to fly B-25s. At Fort Myers, Florida he flew B-26 bombers and trained to fly them off of aircraft carriers so they could drop torpedos on the Japanese fleet during naval battles. He traveled across the Pacific to Brisbane only to be told that they didn't have B-26s for the crews; the colonel there knew nothing about the plan to launch B-26s from aircraft carriers, so they were sent to New Guinea to fly B-17s and supplement the crews for those bombers. From there they made bombing runs or "Washing Machine Charlie"-type runs to keep people awake at night on various Japanese targets in the islands, particularly the base at Rabaul. In fall of 1943, the Army grounded the B-17s due to the damage they had incurred and replaced them with B-24s. The men received manuals and were given only a few days to familiarize themselves with the new planes. They were then sent on bombing runs. He finished his tour of duty at …

Index map for Hudspeth County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:218,409.

Parent map for Hudspeth County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:36,000.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Index map for El Paso County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:102,158.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Parent map for Hudspeth County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:36,000.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Index map for Culberson County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:242,609.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Parent map for Culberson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:40,000.

Parent map for Hudspeth County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:36,000.

Parent map for Hudspeth County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:36,000.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.

Parent map for Culberson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:40,000.

Parent map for Hudspeth County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:40,000.

Index map for Hudspeth County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:242,706.

Parent map for El Paso County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:8,500.