The 6th Bombardment Group site is dedicated to William Santavicca, a member of the 6th Bomb Group, 39th Bomb Squadron, 313th Bomb Wing, located on Tinian in 1945. Bill was the first B-29 veteran to trust me with his photographs and his stories when I first started the site way back in 1995 and has given me most of the information for these 6th Bomb Group pages. I would also like to give a special thanks to Joseph Majeski, also of the 6th Bomb Group, 40th Squadron, 313th Bombardment Wing, for loaning me some valuable books from which I have taken photographs and information.


Brief History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
One Page History.. 2
Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Killed-In-Action, Prisoners of War and Missing-In-Action . . . . . . . . . 4
Individual Awards - the 6th decorated for gallant action . . . . . . . . . . 5
Distinguished Unit Citations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chronology of Missions - 1 Feb 1945 to 15 Aug 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Coincidences? I Can't Believe it! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Air Force IQ Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Pirates' Cove - Bill Santavicca's homage to the 6th Bomb Group 10
Majeski's Memoirs - Joseph Majeski's stories of the 313th 11
B-29 Reaches Iwo Minus Part of Its Crew - In memory of J.K. Anderson 12
January 2006 Newsletter 13
Sgt. Harold Peterson, POW from 40th Squadron