VJ Day -- Ben Nicks

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Channel: Kansas City Star · 2015 · News & Politics

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Ben Nicks of Shawnee spent the war as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific and recounts his final bombing mission on the same day as the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945. VIDEO BY DAVID EULITT [email protected]

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