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As soon as Steve landed the Boeing 777 and powered it down, he left the flight deck and headed to the areawhere the doctor was using as an office. As he passed a flight attendant he told her to open the door and popthe slide for life.It took Steve a second to reach Victoria, "Ma'am there is something you need to know. We were sent back intime by that flash."Victoria looked up at the Captain, "Sir this is not a good time for a joke. I have a patient who needs help andmay not live.""I'm not joking we are in 1939.You are mostly likely the most trained medical person on this flight, so it will beout to you to help these people."Victoria could see in his eyes he wasn't joking or drunk. "Holy shit, you aren't joking are you?""No I am not. You are going to need some help moving your patients." Steve looked around and saw a Marinein service uniform. Steve pointed at him, "Marine what is your name?""Sir I'm Gunner McCallister.""McCallister I need for you to help the doctor here move her patients. I also want you to guard them."That last part cause McCallister to raise an eye brow, but being a Marine he just said, "Yes Sir." He could tellthat Kelly had been an officer at some point in the past so he decided to trust him.Over the next few moments Victoria, Steve, McCallister and a flight attendant got all both people off the aircraftwho needed medical help. Then Steve told the flight attendant to check the passengers to see if any of themhad a modern history degree. Again this caused another raised eye brow, but she did what was asked of her.Normally it was to ask if anyone had any flight training. But she never heard anything about asking this questionbefore.A few minutes later, the flight attendant brought up one man. He looked well dressed and had come out of theFirst Class area, so he might not be able to take the news well. But the man spoke first out first, "So captainwould you care to tell me what year we are in?" Jim said.Steve was taken aback by that, "How did you know?""Sir, when I saw a number B-10 bombers lined up wing tip to wing tip I knew we weren't in 2011 anymore. Iwould take a guess we are in sometime in the late 30s. I need the date because there are a lot of screw ups thatwe can stop or at least soften the blow of.""The date is September 3 1939.""Shit World War 2 just kicked off."Elsewhere on Muroc Army Air Corp Base, Second Lieutenant Paul Tibbets was being ordered to meet with thepilot of the plane that was sitting on the runway. Tibbets had been in the admin office when the plane landedand knew there was something special about this plane.A staff car drove Lt Tibbets out to runway. As Tibbets got out of the staff car he was in awe at what he waslooking at. This was a twin jet aircraft and it put the XB-15 to shame. As he walked up to the yellow slide thatwas coming out of the plane he saw a man come down the slide.He got up and turned to Tibbets and gave a good salute. Then he began to speak, "I'm Colonel Steve KellyUnited States Air Force, retired, and captain of this aircraft. What can I do for you Lieutenant?"Tibbets was a little taken back by what the man had said, but began to ask some questions. He was shocked bysome of the answers this former colonel gave him. After speaking for five minutes both men agreed to someterms. Tibbets would be allowed to come aboard and ask the passengers some questions. In return theywouldn't try to force segregation on the passengers or use raciest terms in front of them. Then Tibbets wentback to report to his commanding officer and Steve when back up the slide which wasn’t as easy it sounded.Once he was back in the plane he got on the intercom, "Ladies and Gentlemen this is your captain. You may bewondering what is going on and what has happened. I can't believe what I'm about to say, but in some fashion