World War II in the Pacific had ended in August 1945. James Donovan and George Jones both pilots. decided to be discharged from the Army Air Corps at Clark Air Force Base near Manila in the Philippine Islands to start and Freight Air Line named "Indian River Air." As members of the 5th Air Force during the War they flew the B-24 heavy bomber and the B-25 through out the South Pacific. They both flew 125 mission in the 24's from Australia to New Guinea and the Philippines in 1944 which was the retaking of the Philippians by General Douglas MacArthur, and their last mission over Iwo Jima. After their last missions over Iwo Jima they were transferred to Clark AAFB on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines for submarine patrol duty until this war ended.