Lt Col (Ret) Edward "Red" Weir waits in the lobby of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska for the arrival of his old friend, Ben Kuroki, whom he had not seen since the mid-40's during a chance meeting in Salt Lake City. Colonel Weir wears his original A-2 bomber jacket from his WWII days as a navigator in B-24 Liberator bombers. The WWII-era insert photo of Ben shows him standing next to their bomber, "Tupelo Lass," so named by the ship's pilot, Jake Epting of Tupelo, Miss.

Lt Col (Ret) Edward "Red" Weir waits in the lobby of the Embassy Suites Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska for the arrival of his old friend, Ben Kuroki, whom he had not seen since the mid-40's during a chance meeting in Salt Lake City. Colonel Weir wears his original A-2 bomber jacket from his WWII days as a navigator in B-24 Liberator bombers. The WWII-era insert photo of Ben shows him standing next to their bomber, "Tupelo Lass," so named by the ship's pilot, Jake Epting of Tupelo, Miss.