Eighty years ago, on February 3^rd, 1945, the 802^nd Chemical Company (Air Operations) participated in the official opening of North Field on Guam. They had arrived on Guam just two weeks earlier, assigned to establish and operate a “Class V Air Chemical Ammunition Depot” supporting the B-29s of the 314^th Bomb Wing, XXI Bomber Command. Commander of the XXI, Gen. Curtis LeMay, was ….

By May 1944, the US had equipped four airbases near Kharagpur, India with 130 of America’s newest and largest bombers, the B-29 Superfortress….