The following article appeared on page 2 of the August 6, 1945, issue of The Volunteer. This was a weekly publication of the Public Relations Department of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation's Nashville (Tennessee) Division.
SGT. JOE SWANN, Nashville Division employee from November 1941 until January 1944, recently wrote to W. G. Wallace (Scheduling), with a part of his letter reading as follows:
…I can tell you I was one of the first over Tokyo and have been over 10 times. They can say all they want about the Jap[anese] plane but it is plenty good and fast. … I have been looking at a Volunteer that had your picture — you are really doing a swell job. Keep it up. You have no idea how good a P-38 would look flying beside us over Japan. … Tell Mr. (Dick) Jones, foreman in 90, hello, also Cab Curtis.
Sergeant Swann, who was employed here in old Department 90, is a gunner on a B-29. He has completed his 11th mission and has flown over 36,000 miles.
