During the summer of 1945, U.S. forces occupied Guam and used the small island as a jumping point to carry out bombing missions against the Japanese during World War II. That June, a small maintenance group of airmen from the 20th Air Force worked frantically to retrofit B-29 Superfortresses for high altitude, long-range missions that would strike into the Japanese mainland. Oxford resident Jim Quintrell remembers the days leading up to the end of World War II like they were yesterday. As an airman in the newly formed U.S. Army Air Forces, Quintrell and his team of a dozen airmen regularly