THE, AIR FORCES ESCAPE & EVASION SOCIETY inter 1 9 9 8-9 9 Communications VOLUME I2-,NUMBER 4 WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS 76307-2501 DECEMBER 11, 1998

We send our greetings . . .

At rhis hoLidal sedson send best wlshes we our FROM THE MEMBERS peace and joy OFTHE for AIR FORCES ESCAPE & EVASION SOCIETY tlvoughout the Jedr

hope and peace be with you always

(lnside eectlon of the tour-page Season's Greetlnge folder mailed ln early December) Fo!lowing an AFEES tradition, folders expressinE sentiments of the Holiday Season were irailed this month to 632 Helperi and Frlends in 20 countries' Again, the design and artwork for the cards has been provided by Dorothy (Mrs. Paul) Kenney. Chairman Ralph Patton maintains the mailing list, which is reviewed and updated by Scotty and Clayton David. President Dick Smith and whatever family help he can coerce do the stutfing of envelopes and licking. The first-class folders go to many helpers/friends who have a limited knowlege of the English language and so do not receive Communications on a regular basis. This year's mailing, alpabetically by country: Australia, 1; Austria, 1; Belgium, 1O-9; Canada, g-; Gzechoslovakia,2; Groatia, 1;, S; ,312; 't; Geinany, 1; Greece, 1; Holland, 116; ltaly, 5; Luxembourg, Slovq! ReOublic, 3;. Slovenia, 1;, 1;Switzerland, 1;Uniied Kingdom, 10; U.S.A',39, and Yugoslavia, S"

Compared to 1gg7, the tist includes 85 new addresses and 53 deceased or change of address' Page 2 Leslie Atkinson LT.S. plans to attend AIRFORCES Arizona reunion ESCAPE/EVASION Leslie Atkinson, official reprmentative in France for SOCIETY AFEES, has notified Chairman that \alph ^Patton he is recovering $c9ly from heart by-pass surgery Communications in Oitober. Published Leslie says his doctor has Quarterly removed all restrictions from his activities WEB ADDRESS: www.cbiinlb.conr and he is free to do about

Volume 12 -- Number 4 DecemberDe 11, 1998 CTIAIRMAN: **xRalph K. Patton,5CX)0 Alden Drive, pittsburgh, pA 1522O_1023: Phone: 412-343-8570; F AX: 412_343_2296 PRESIDENT: xRichard M. Smith, 76543 Begonia l-ane, palm Desert, CAg2lll: (Winrerr Harold Rutka Phone 760-34 5-2282; I.AX 760_34-5_9908 VICE PRESIDENT: to head *Russel SAFHS S. Weyland, I I l7 W. Northcast Shore Drive, Mcllenry, Il_ 60050_921 l; AFEES was tepresented at the 24th Phone (O) 8t5.459-2(n5, (FI) 815-385_4378 reunion TRF,ASURER: of the Sth Air Fnrce Historical **Paul Society in Cherry Hill, N.J., in mid_ E. Kenney, Apt. B, l04l North Jamestown Road, Dccatur, GA 3003; Phone 404-929-880tt October. Attending were Chairman Ralph MEMBERSHIP & CORRTJSR)NDING S]]CREI'ARY: Patton, Secretary Bud l_onng and {'t<, 1 -o 536 .1,X.75225;2t4_3.73_i67(J director and intenm cditor ol'the gAF Office: 8l 15 preston Rd., Suite 240, Dallas, News, gave a seminar, PERMANDNT REPRFTSTAII.ATIVI] IN FRANCE: covering many facets of medical conditions Ircslie A.G, Atkinson, 29 rue des lrouvres, 660ff) perpignan, Fr.ance; and treatments. Phone: 0lI 33 046855 12 63; FAX: 0ll 33 04 68 55 lLj3 I-EGALCOUNSEI,: Gil Cohen made a slide presentation R.E.T. Smith Esq., PO Box 38, Wahperon, ND 58074; ll}l_@2_Z(ffi of his artwork, which is being featured in C OMMUN I C A7?ONS EDI'TOR: the art gallery of the Herilage Museum in x*Larry Grauerholz, 'IX PO llox 2501, Wichita Falls, '7 63Q7 -25o | : 9 40 - 692 -67 U) Savannah. xClass x*Class x.**(rla(s of 2001 of 1999 of 2000 New directon elected were Staniev A. Peterson, g6BG; C. Craig Harris, q5f/gC, AFEES COMI,TUNICATIONS IS THE OFFICTAI, I]OI'RNAI OF THE AIR and Abruham "Hap" Galfunt,348G. At FORCES ESCAPE A EVASfON S@IETY. AFEES IS A TAX-EXEI,{PI the board meeting following the election VETERAITS ORcAltrzArroN UNDER rRS CODE 501 (C) (19). wAs rT of directors, Harold C. Rutka of Duluth, FOITNDED IN 1964 Al.lD fS CITARTERED IN THE SIATE OF GEORGfA. Minn., was elected president of the THE SOCIETY'S PURPOSE IS TO ENCOITRAGE I,IEMBERS HELPED BY THE srciety. RESISTANCE ORGAIIIZATIONS OR PATA,IC}TIC NATTONALS TO CO}ITINUE Highlight of the program ExrsrrNc I'RrENDsHrPs oR RENEW RELATroNsHrps wrrH THosE I{Ho was a talk ITELPED THEI4 DI'RING THEIR ESCAPE OR EVASION. by Roger Freeman, cminent British ELIGIBILITY REQUTRES TIIAT ONE MUST HAVE BEEN A U.S. AIRIITAIiI, historian. His topic was, "The Friendly HE II{UST IIAVE BEEN FORCED DOI{N BEHIND ENEII{Y LINES A}ID AVOIDED Invasion," which coverect the impact of CAPTIVITY, OR ESCAPED TEOM CAPTIVITY TO RETURN TO AILIED U.S. servicemen in Britain during WWII. CONTROL. The roster reflected 370 members IN ADDITION TO REGUI,AR MEMBERSHIP, OTHER CATEGOR]ES OF registered, with a total of 5gg attendees, MEMBERSHIP ARE HELPER MEMBERS, AND TR.IEND MEMBERS. including wiyes and guests. Page 3 The wnrbirds fly again at Duxford From the Denven (Colo.) Post, sunday, Aprit 26, ree8 IF YOU GO TO DUXFORI) How to get there: Fr Cambridge, By JAY CLARKE about an hour away.. ong block from Miami llerald the train station there fare, about $6) DUXFORD, England -- l,txrk up in that runs to Duxford. Buses run hourly on weekdays, three times on thc blue and you ma)' see a B- 17 Flying Fortrcss, a P-51 Mustang rtr a P-47 itl$ili;", Adurts, about gu; seniors, about $7. Imperial Museum Duxford, Duxford Airfield, Thun-delhrlt fl ),i ng ovcrhcad. Information: War They'rc no miragcs. Thcy're real Duxford, Cambridge CB2 4QR U.K.; 011-4-1223-a35-000. airplanes, a throwback to thc World War II days of the carly 194{)s. visitors is a B-17 Flying Fortress, the American plane downed in combat--a total Why arc thcl'airbornc in l99tt? workhorse of America's Eighth of 7,031--pays tribute to the 30,000 'fhe planes arc tlyablc old American Air Force, based in England during the British-based American airmen who ilied warbirds complementing exhibits inside war. A B-25 Mitchell medium bomber is in World War II. the new Amcrican Air Muscum here, 50 shown in Marine Corps colors. The C- "I was moved," said Gary Powell, a miles north of London. Dedicated by 47 Skylrain transport on display saw Connecticut visitor whose father Norman Elizabeth II last August, the Quecn action on D-Day. Several fighters from flew in aB-17 based in Britain dunng muscum houses more American military World War II, including a P-47 and a P- World War II. "The museum is aircraft. than my other such facility 51, are on exhibit, along wlth the greatest brilliantly designed." outsidc thc Unitcd States. bomber of the Pacific theater. aB-29 When not flying missions to the Mclrc than 60,Un Amencans Super-lbrtress. continent during World War II, many contributed to thc building of the Aircraft used in morc recent wars also crew members would visit nearby muscum, which is part ol'the Imperial are on display. America's first swept- Cambridge, where the Eagle Pub became War Museum Duxlord, the largest wing fighter, thc F-86 Sabre that fought a popular hangout for RAF and American aviation museum in Europe. Among the in thc Korean War, is one. From the airmen. Many airmen inscribed their contributclrs wcrc actor Charlton Hcston, Vietnam conflict come an F-I00 Super namcs, or those of their squadron, on the a lormer B-25 crelv rnembcr who served Sabre, a F4 Phantom and a Huey ceiling there, using smoke from candles as fund-raiser co-chailman; th: latc actor helicopter. An F-l l1 that flew 19 Desert or lipstick as writing instruments. Jimmy Stetvart, u'ho ilcw a numbcr of Storm missions sits quietly on the Link with the past missions from Briuain during World War museum floor nc'rt far from another Gulf Six years ago, when it was II;and the late Gcn. Jimmy Doolittle of A-10 Thunderbolt. War veteran, an undergoing a $1.8 million renovation, the Tokyo raid famc, $'ho $'enI on to B-52 a star owners decided to preserve that bit of command thc Eighth Air Force. Heston, Dominating the entire display is a B- wartime history. The restored ceiling has fogethcr with U.S. Air Forcc Secretary 52 Stratofortress, the huge long-rangc become an unusual link with the wartime Sheila Widnall, attcnded the operung bomber that went on line in 1955 and past. ceremony. remains in service today. Suspended "There's really nothing like it Under the American Alr Museum's akrve it, appropnately, is a U-2, a high- anywhere," said Peter Hill, the pub sclaring dome are 2l Unitcd States flying spy plane that precipitated an manager. airplanes, ranging from a international incident whcn the Soviet Though dozens of aviators put their Spad to the Gulf War's F-l I l, as well as Union shot one down over its territory at names on the ceiling, only three, to missiles, launchers, engines and even a the height o[ the Cold War. The one on Hill's knowledge, have come back to pie,ce of the Berlin Wall. Parked outside, display here flew over China on visit the pub. "Jim Mies came in one when not flying, are the Flying Fortress, reconnaissance missions for the CIA. evening, said he remembered the night he the Mustang, Thunderbolt and several Shaped like a nose cone, the $20- put his name there and went right to it." other aircrali that are pnvately owned but million dome designed by Sir Norman Another recent visitor was Capt. complement the museum's collection. Foster is an architectural tour de force. A Robert Morgan, pilot of the famed For anyonc with an interest in viewing ramp circles the inside of the Memphis Belle bomber, whose story was military aircrafl--or in America's England- arched structure, whose single-span vault a made into a motion picture, "The based air forces -- the displays here are is the largest of its kind in Europe. A Memphis Belle." During the war, conduit to the past. 295-foot-wide arc of glass, which can be Morgan flew from nearby Bassingbourn. Many of the aircraft date to the World dismantled to move aircraft in or out of years, "He never put his name on the ceiling," War II when thousands of the building, faces the runway of this said Hill, but he had his 79th birthday American aviators flew from 100 British one-time air base. In front of the party here after the dedication (of the airfields to attack Naz-i targets. museum, a wall of 52 glass panels etched museum)," Most familiar to contcmporary u,ith images of every Britain-based 'Page 4

How lucky AFEES PX PRICE LIST WINGED BOOTS can you be? Pewter Bolo Tie (new item) $ 15.00 Lapel Pin,3l4in. Pewter ...... 6.00 (From the Flying Fortress Tie Tack, 3l4in. Pevyter, with Chain ...... 6.00 Newsletter, Walla Walla. WA. Lapel Pin, 1 in. blue shield with boot ...... 6.00 Spring 1997 issue) Tie Tack, 1 in. blue shield with boot & chain ...... 6.00 On Jan. 3, 1943, in the miclst of a Cloth with metallic thread (dry bombing raid on German torpedo clean only) ..,. 5.00 stores at Cotton Sport St. Nazaire, France, a miracle took place Shirt Patch (can be taund6ied) that is still remembered. BLAZER PATCHES S/Sgt. Alan Magee, from the 360rh RoyalBlue Squadron,303rd Bomb Group, a gunner Only .,.$10.00 in B-17 Nr>.4t-24620, aptly named Bluewith metallicthread ...... 15.00 Snap! Crackle! Pop! was tossed out of his AFEES MERCHANDISE burning aircraft a1,20,000 l'eet. Unlbrt_ Car License Plate $10.00 unately, he wa^s not wearing a parachute, T-Shirts, sizess, M, XXL ...... 10.00 As hc fell from the B-17 four-ensine Lapel Pin, blue and bombcr, hc askcd God to save hii litc. ..1 silver ...... O.00 don'I wish to die because I know nnthine Clock, Helping Hand logo (with battery) 15.00 of life" was his appeal as he hit the Umbrella with belt (from Reunion) 14.00 freezing air at 22,O0O [eet. Then he lost lGtool Knife (from Reunion) 13.00 consciousness and crashed through the OFFICIAL AFEES CAPS glass rool'of the St. Nazaire railroad station. He regained consciousness in a Mesh Back, NaW Blue ...... $12.00 firct aid station where he was carricd Mesh Back, White .. 12.00 before he was taken to the hospikrl. Closed Back, NaW Blue only ..12.ffi "l owe the German military doctor Add per who treated me a debt of gratitude," said $1.50 order for shlpplng a handllng Magee. He told me, "We are enemies but Make checks pauable to flFEES: mail to: I am first a doctor and I will do my best to save your arm." The doctor, whose FRANK ilcDONALD, pX l{anager name he never learned, saved his arm and 1401 Brentwood also Drive took care of his multitude of Fort CoIIins, CO 80521 injuries. All of this action took place on the 303rd BG ninth bombing mission ancl Phone (97O) 484-2363 fifth mission to St. Nazaire. It proved to be a costly mission. The group lost four aircraft to enemy action. One carried HeIp Wanted: a PX Manager Maj. C. C. Sheridan, the 42jth Squadron Frank McDonald of Fort Commander. Colllns, Colo., our fafthful PX manager f91years, ls being forced to restgn On Sept. 23,1995, Alan E. Magee, because of accompanied health problems. by his wife Helen, returned His wlfe, Sybil, reports to St. Nazaire to take part in a ceremony that she wlll conflnue to sponsored by French handle orders at the colorado address until some other citizens, dedicating a arrangements memorial to his seven fellow crew for handltng the stock of memorabllia can members that were killed in the crash o[ be made. "Snap! Clackle! Pop!" in the forest at [_a The PX inventory tncludes many items that have Baule Escoublac on Jan. 3.1943. been popular as g]fts for helpers, as well as for persorral use of members, famllles and frtends. Since Frank ls belng forced give to up the -Job, AFEES ls seeking anothervolunteer Io serve as yon are interested Tltlggj- _II in volunteerlng ONE MORE TIME, contact Prestdent Dlck smith at-hts wtnter address in California. Page 5 The story of Belgian patriotism

From SOI.DIBR Magazine, 1946 timc 2, lfi) fly'ing bombs were pouring Allied commands, Gradually our task Ft

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They will never forget in Saint Cyr By JIMMv HEDDLESON Louisville, Ohio EOI-492 BG (Carpetbaggers) After a Carpetbaggers reunion, I was invited back to St. Cyr de Valorges in southern France on Sept. 14, 1993, by a young woman who spoke English and wanted to ask some qnestions about the night of Apil27-28,1944, when our plane went down. Joseph and Lulu Rathier, Louise Boyer's son-in-law; took me to see her. l.ouise's husband was leader of the Maquis in the area and they hid me in their home after the crash. The mayor of St. Cyr, Jean Delaye, was also invited. The young woman and 'c:,--. the mayor had many questions. While we were visiting, she said she had a small The small museum in st. cyr where a section is dedicated to the crew piece of my plane out in the back of her of the Worry Bird, which was downed in the area in Aprit I 944 barn. She asked if I would like to see it. The picce o[

Jitruny Heddleson is still in conloct wilh many.friends of the St. Germain Inval Resislance group, IIe returned in 1964 for re-dedicatiort oJ a rrcnurnent dedicalecl to llu crew oJWorry llird. He ulso relurned h lD3 for a Carpetbaggers reunioncoordirnted by Lt. Col. l, W. Bradbury. In 1974, the French renurwd a square in St. Cyr de Valorges inJinuny's horutr^ He may be lhe only USAAF enlisted ntan so lrcnctred in Europe.

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SETUP -- George Baker, president of Intrepidu to record a round table discussion of evasion sto Branch, RAFES, in LoruJon, Ont. George expec book and film within the next year. George Canadian Br., are ready to be interviewed. part icipated in the di s c us sion. Obituarv M. YVES VOURCH French Patriot After a long battle with throat cancor, Yves Vourch, French helper and patriot, died November 19, 19X, according to word received by Jim Armstrong of 'Ihomasville, Ga. "Yves always opened his home to me and other Americans he had helped," Jim says. At the age of 19, Yves helped escort AFEES was represented at the AGM of the RAFES (Canad.ian and hide 24 airmen in the church St. Branch) in London, Ont. In above photo, from left: Bud Loring, Marie du Menez-Hom in Brittany near the his wife, Thelma, andTommy Thomas. Shown below, Ralph and town of Plomodiern. Of these, 20 were Bette Panon and Dick Smith. All report that the U,S. guests were evacuated by the French fishing boat, lavishly entertainecl, with much goodfood and fellowship. "Suzanne Renee. " The other four were taken to England by the British from islands north of Brest. Later Yves went to , met Georges Broussine and received money for the purchase of an escape boat, "La Jeanne." Then he escaped himself on the "Briez- Lznl." Yves attended the AFEES reunion in Savannah in 1992, the first time he had visited the States. He received several awards from the French government and the U.S. Medal of Freedom. F'ar.ye "10 ,#*\h $a;p"tn# fuercpfs are rTtad# for hiking From the Cape Cod Times, flqrr. I'vc lbund gorgeouq bcxrts that Hyannis' Mass., Nov- 27' 1998 Firsl I wipcd off the soft grecn nross, probably cost more than rl,hat thc hip lelt over lr

Monsieur Yves C-nRNor, Monsieur Yvon Lr BRts, Rcchcrche historique sur le crosh Conseiller g6nCrol, Moire de Bonnolec du 817 F ffhe Block Swon) du 3l/12/1943 el son conseil municiPol

vous prienl de bien vouloir honorer de votre pr6sence l'inougurotion d'une stdle 6ri- g6e ou lieu-dit Keroncreoch, en Bonnolec, en souvenir de l'dquipoge de lo forteresse volonte U.S., obottue le 3l d6cembre 1943 le sqmedi 3l octobre 1998 d l5 heures Cette c€r6monie se ddroulero dons le codre de l'exposition consocr6e d cet 6v0nement en pr6sence des outorit6s civiles et militoires d6portemenloles. A l'issue de l'inougurolion le pol de l'omiti6 sero servi d lo Moirie.

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OnThursdny, October 31, 1998, q "STELE" (stone monument)was dedicatedlo the crew of the B-17, "The Black Swen" shot down on December 31, 1943, near Bannnlec in Brittany (near veralyears of research by M.Yves Carnot rf over by Yvon LeBris, the mayor of Bctnnalec, nce. WW2 vetis stitt serving his co;;;W From the Watertorvn (Wisc.) Daily Times, Nov. ll, 1998

By JEFF STEVENS of the Daily Times Staff

Nearly -5-5 years atler his planc rvas shot down in World War II, Ray Kubly is still sewing his country and the U.S. Air Force. [-ast week, Kubly agrced to share information about his escape from the German army with Air Forcc's Joint Services Survival, Evasion, Resistancc and EscapeAgency. Thc agency is conducting an oral history rcsearch prqect lor people who were ablc to cscape captivity. Kubly, a Watertown native, was ono of thc pcople called ttr provide insight. Ray Kubly (center) is shown visiting with two members of the RAF "l'm happy to say that I'm still here Escaping Society, Canadian Branch: Ray Sherk(Iefi) of Willowdale, and able to hclp the Air Force and our Ont., and Alex Moran of Windsor, Ont. country," said the 7|year-old Kubly. The Air Forcc started the projcct, in He added that they also wanted to to lV)4, when he retired. part, bccause ol Capt. Scott O'Grady's know what items would have been Kubly, who served on the Watertown cxperiencc aftcr hc rvas shot down ovcr valuable to have, such as fla-shlights, School Board for 16 years until. lql2, Bosnia in June of 1995. Alter six da-vs, knives and compasses. didn't stay rctired. He currently sells real O'Grady was rescued, but Air Force Kubly's plane w6 shot down on Oct. estate for ERA Egan Realty. officials realiz.ed that thc pilot could have 7, 1944, af,ter bombing a synthetic oil Despite his war experiences, Kubly been bettcr prepared. refinery in Maresberg, Germany. The said he dcrcsn't believe he was heroic. "Because of his experiences, they planc made it to Holland, where thc nine- "I don't consider myself a hero. I'm realizcd he didn't have enough survival man crew bailed out over enemy lincs just a survivor," hc said. "Half of my and cvasion experience," Kubly said. near the Belgium border. crew was killed, but I'm still here. In an cffort to improve their training "When I came flcnting down in the "I thank the L-ord that he wanted me program, the Air Force askcd people, parachute, the Germans shot me in the here yet. I've got things to be done," such as Kubly, to share their experiences leg," Kubly said. Kubly added. about their escape. Al'ter the Cermans captured him, AIRMEN EVACUATED BY THE On Nov. I, Kubly was flown at the Kubly was sent to a Dutch hospital. Breiz Izel FROM DOUARNENEZ, Air Force 's expense to Fairchild Air About 19 later, joined days Kubly five BRITTANY, Jan. 22,1944 Forcc Base near Spokane, Wash. other people who escaped into the Dutch On the second day of his trip, Kubly underground. lst Lt. James E. Armstrong, 384BG was given a three-hour psychological test, "None of us wanted to g0 to a POW T/Sgt. Robert C. Giles,350BS which was used to evaluate characteristics camp so we escaped," Kubly said. T/Sgt. Canoll F. Haarup,350BS of people who had successfully escaped After five months and 23 days T/Sgt. Thomas R. Moore,381 BG from captivity. underground, Kubly gained his freedom. S/Sgt. Harry H. Horton, Jr.,38lBG After the test, Kubly was intorviewed He was debriefed by thc military in S/Sgt. Joseph M. Kalas,384BG lor scven hours ahrut his experiences. Paris shortly after his resue. 1st Lt. Dwight A. Fisher,95BG S/Sgt. Some of the topics included his military Unfortunately, those papers have been Leonard J. Kelly,384BG S.Sgt. Edward F. Sobolewski,38lBG background, mission leading to capture, lost. 'To this day, we don't know where Sgt. Ardell H. Bollinger,3S4BG eversi on prior iil-capt-urc, i nterrogati on, [hey are," Kubly said. "Nobody seems to Max Feidler, RAF, Sheffield, U.K. escapc plan and evasion. know." LeslieWoollard, RAF, Lewes, U.K. Military officials also wanted to know Kubly, who retired from the Air Force Paddy Carleton, RAF, Ireland the lessons learned from the incident and at the rank of lieutenant colonel, returned Russell Jones, RCAF, Trail, B.C. suggestions how to improve one's to Wisconsin and received his degree from chnnces ftrr a succcssful escape, the University of Wisconsin in 1952. Others on board include 16 crew "lt takes a risk taker and an aggressive He went into the feed business and and passengers. person to survive this," Kubly said. worked for Dairyland Seed Co. from 1952 (List provided by Jim Armstrong) Page 74 Carpetbaggers worked in the dark From the Evening TelegraPh More than 50 black Liberators werc remained restricted until the 1980s. They Yank Supplement, Yorkshire' modified to carry and despatch spys and were certainly a mystery to Ron Clarke, U.K. vital supplies such as ammunition, o[ Greenhill Road, Kettering, who spent July 2O, 1992 radios, partS--even entire vehicles. many monl.hs helping to rcwire thc bassc Only the best sPY novels could Smaller planes like the twin-engined banacks and amenity blircks' compete with the remarkable role played 8-26 could carry agents in the hrmb bay, Mr. Clarke, then a 17-Ycar-old by the black Liberator planes which left to be released like bombs at lorv level electrician's mate with locat firm Bamct the U.S. base at Harrington, near with automatically opened parachutes. and Soans, said: "We knew something Rothwell, under cover of darkness in On one drop an agent was delivered ttl a was going on when we saw thesc big 194/-. wood in Berlinl black planes which never flew during the It was hardly surprising people in the American crews also flew Bntish day like the other bases. Kettering area weren't aware of Opemticrn Mosquito planes fitted with some of the "But we wel'en't allowed anywhere Carpetbagger, supplying agents and first recording instrumcnts tcl relay near the flying areas. Of course we all supplies to resistance groups from messages from agents out of radio range had our suspicions, but 1,otl daren't ask. werc told they would be Norway to the furenees. of UK receivers. Apparently ct'ews The activities of the 801st/492nd The route to the droP zone was a team shot if they divulged anything. If askcd Bombardment Group were such a closely effort. A bombardier sat in the glazed about the Liberators, they were to say -guarded secret that many servicemcn nose on a swivel seat reading off they were on bomber affiliaticln duties." stationed there had no idea what wa^s landmarks to the navigator sitting at his Such secrecy didn't prevent the Yanks really happening. table behind blackout curtains' The pilot making friends with thc locarls, espccially Night after night the highly-trained ha.d a gocxl downward view fnrm large men from the 826th and 852nd Enginecr crews in their B-24s flew singly on daring blister windows. Battalions of the US AnnY, who had low-level spy and sabotage sorties to In their short period of operation, the built the airfield dunng the bitter rvinter remote drop zones in occupied Europe and Carpetbaggers dropped 556 agents and of l943lM. Germany itself. delivered 4,-511 tons of supplies, losing These men, who livcd under canvas, In the early part of the war, the 2O8 aircrew in action. They carried out bought all the spare bic-vclcs in the area British Special Operations Executive had over 3,000 sorties, including 21 night to visit pubs and cinemas in Kettering, built up considerable expertise of bombing missions. Rothwell and Desborough and thc moonlight missions in Lysander, and The operation was clclsely monitored Tollemache Arms in Harrington itself Whitley aircraft operating from by the American Intelligence Department, was popular. Newmarket and Tempsford, nearBedford. which was making contingency plans to And when thel'disPoeed of their But with the invosion of EuroPe counter Soviet activities once the war refirse at the tip in Orton Road or the getting closer, it was decided to form a reached its inevitable conclusion. council yard in Glendon Road, Rothwell, special American support group and after trading figures such as General 'Wild thcl'r,r'ould bundle up American comics brief periods at Alconbury and Watton Bill' Donovan and William Colby visited for local kids s'ho sould scavenge there. airfields, the new unit settled at Harrington and the techniques grrfected by After the s ar, thc CarPetbaggers Hamngton in March, 1944. the Carpetbaggers were used when the themselves formed an old comrades Harrington was chosen as it was near CIA developed into a worldwide assorciation and man-v returned to dedicate enough to Tempsford for liaison and not intelligence agency. a memorial to their lost colleagues too far from the main supply bases at So confidential were some of the overlooking the old airficld where some Cheddington and Holme. Harrington missions that many records buildings still remain. Peanuts gILL YEs, sIR I MAN( A ROOT ON VETERAN5 DA{ I'A5 TI.1E 6REATE5T 1EER WILL BE RAISEDlA AL|I,AY5 THINK OF CARTOONI5T TO COME OUT OL' 1ILL TODAY I BILL MAULDIN.. OF WORLD WAK tr... Page 77

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MAIL to: Arizona Golf Resort & Convention Center, 425 South Power Road, Mesa, AZ852W FAX direct to Hotel : 602-98 I -0 I 5 I ; Telephone 800-528 -8?32 Attention: Reservations Code Word: ESCAP

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(Hotel Reseruation torm on Reverse) Page 79 Next Rendezvous; Mesa, Ariz. Next AFEES reunion is scheduled for the Arizona Golf and Convention Resort, located just off Power Rd. in Mesa, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix, for the weekend of April 22-26, 1999. Standard room rate will be $77, plus tax. A two-room suite is $10 more. All rooms are ground level.

EASY ACCESS THINGS TIO DO Thirty rninutes from Phocnix Airport, one ntile north tr{ . Holseback Riding ' De"ert CookoLtls Superstition !'rseway (llighrvey 60), Airpolt (r'anstcr serr'!ce . Mr.,onliglrt Htywa4otr Rides ' Stlpet'stiti

Deli Selections . Sa/arl.s ' Ligh.t llrtrees LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Listen and dance to the ntelodic so,tnds cf poprilar local entertainers

Directione from I'hoenix Sky Harbot' Airlolt to Lhe Arizona Golf Resorr and Confcrence Centor (Epproxitnately 30 rninutr:c driving timet 202 East (Temp6.{\t0sR) (Chandlcr) 4 nrilss, " 'lhko fi nrilds, to l0l South Open. breuhfast and lunr:lt to 60 (Globs) to Power Road Ext t88 12 nrilce, lbr r.tuerloohirtg the golf cou;'sc . l^f\ on l)orver Rorrd 1,[r rniles then riglrt on l]rondway to llorort rtain t'nlrance npproxinrntoly 400 foot on right. POOLSIDE PATIO - Diring,9 Coc,ttuils Page 20 Robert M arjanovich honored posthumously "We can never reqaY lou, but, we will never forget" From the American Srbobran, Pittsburgh' Pa.' WednesdaY, Oct. 21, 1998

BY Mllan M. Tomieh Past Vice Pres. of Serb National Foundation and brother-ln-law of the late Robert Marjanovich On Sunday, Oct. 4, 1998, Mr. Ralph Patton' P.resident of the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society (AFEES) awarded ROBERT MAzuANOVICH, posthumously, a Citation of Remembrance for his outstanding courage in coming to the aid of United States airmen during the period 1942-1945. The citation further stiates, "We can never repay you, but, we will never forget." At the bottom of this citation is "PART OF A LETTER OFTRIBUTE; The loss of every Allied plane shot down over Europe was a tragedy--every member of a crew that was found and saved and sent back to us broughtjoy to all his comrades. To everyone who joined in this great work and to each member of his family and to all who shared, in those days, his risks and dangers I send assurances of my deep and lasting gratitude." Sincerely, Dwight D. Eisenhower

The recipient of this award was Mrs' Dara (Madanovich) Tomich, of Pittsburgh, Pa', sistLer of the late Robert Marjanovich. hesent for this occasion was Mr. Nick L-alich, retired Captain of the OSS, of Baltimore, Md', and the one to initiate this presentation. We were also honored to have in our presence, Mr. George Martich, president of the

At the Serbian in Weirton, W, Va., are, L ; Dara (Marjanovich) and Nick Lalich (retired Captain of the OSS.) Page 27 Claude learned how to act dumb From the Sun Cityr Ariz., DailY News Sun, Oct. 13' 1998 By JURF OWENS, Staff Writer A I'ew years ago, Claude Murray--alia-s "Jan Smit"--ot Sun City had a special intercst in seeing that Miami author Patricia Fussell Keen actually finished the book she had been working on so painstakingly, Keen was a military history researcher and "8th Air Force brat" who had devoted a decade of study to a book on one of World War II's rnost obscure stories. She was compiling an exhaustive history of the U.S. 8th Air Forcc's little- known 7th Photographic Reconnaisance Group, whtlse men flerv sleek P-38 Lightnings and Spittires over enemy European territory fr

Verne Cole, now of Fresrc, Calif., was lail gunner on a B-17 crew of the 4838G, Isth AF, when he was downed on March22, 1945, near thc Polish-Germanborder. Badly wounded, he was aided by Polish guerrillas. 'l'his i.s his ,story.

BY VERNE COLE I already has flown 25 missions and only needed 1O more to go home. Our crew was not posted for the Ruhland flight, but the flight engineer from Captain Skinner's crew asked me to replace the regular tail gunner, who was down with the GI's. Sure, I was ready for number 26. The following morning at the plane I was introduced to Major Stanley Johnson, who I believe was making his first combat flight. I already knew the rest ol'the crew members. I was sorry to see our escorts drop off well before we reached the target, Over the target the flak was intense, much more than we had anticipated, and there were a number of the curious smoke rings we had come to know were lef't by rockets. As tail gunner in the lead plane of the group, I had a catbird's seat watching the lormation. I saw a plane from another squadron take a hit -- it seemed to stop in the air and immediately became a ball of fire. A chute opened and then disappeared in a flash of fire and the man tumbled down out of sight. I felt a little ill. Aftrer we dropped the bomb load, the formation swung left and I was warching the low squadron when suddenly I saw a Me-262 right above it. I started to swing the tail guns toward the fighter when there was a red flash and I lost consciousness. I don't think I even let the rest of the crew know the Me'262 was out there. When I recovered consciousness I wa.s lying on the floor behind the bicycle seat that tail gunners used. The windows in the tail were gone, and the tail guns hung crazily angled down to the right with part of their support gone. We had lost a lot of altitude because I could breathe easily, although my oxygen mask had been pulled off. I found my hands and arms were paralyzed almost in the position they were when I was hit- elbows bent as if holding the guns in front of me. I couldn't use the intercom--my throat mike had been yanked off. My helmet was on the floor. It had a hole in it. I never could understand that. since I had no head wounds. I discovered later that I had been wounded in both hands, both arms, and both shoulders. The flak vest apparently had saved me from being hit in the torso. I got to my knees and picked up the chute pack with my teeth and crawled on my knees out to the waist. I saw the waist hatch open, the ball turret up and its hatch open, and I couldn't see a soul. I panicked for a minute, thinking everyone had bailed out and left the plane on automatic pilot. When Airman Thompson came through the radio room to the waist, I could have kissed him. He unhooked my heavy flak vest and trold me Pirroni had been hit in the belly and was dead. He looked at my hands and decided there wa^s little he could do then, since the bleeding seemed to have stopped, Thompson left the waist to tell Page 23 More About -- That Mission No, 26 LONG ENo(ifi*"" Amencan, and rvhen I answered yes, she told me not to worry. ArrD They lverc Polish guerrillas. Therc were going to put me in raav SfILL-1, BE the lony and takc me to a doctor. UNHAPry The men picked me up and placed me on somc blankets in the truck and the truck went back into the wocds. I don't Bur vou t',tAv FORGET wl{Y, bclicr,c they lollowed a road because the truck bounced and bucked. I could see a l_ot of tree branches above the truck an

union at Airmen and their French helpers of the Virginia In l!X15, the Brills returned for a commemoration From Plane Talk, newsletter very spot where his plane had crash- SAFHS' Fall 1998 ceremonv on the Chapter, landed. ihe French-had recreated the airplane's By R. Pitts (3798G) and Monique Pitts Jesse ^ We attended the reunion of the Air Forces Escape &, Evasion Society last May in Falls Church, Va.. We were invited by Flerbert Brill and his wife Millicent. Herbert Brill was shot down Dec. 31, 1943, ttear

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Underground said at the time (translation by Monique when a new mission came up to bomb a German- controlled air strip in the south of France. Just "a Pirts.) '"Two school teachers at Grassac let us know that an

They burned their own plane to keep it out of German

woods for several weeks in order to avoid the and collaborators in the area. Because they were in rnixtures.)" civilian clothes, Brill and Weber, if caught, would have horrible (Ilere are other accounts of whut their action was.) 1944, a message from London: 'Make announces the drop of six parachutes Brill and Weber take Part in the ooeration. along with Pienot Chabasse and his father who came witlia mule and carriage to transport

the Croix du Combattant Volontaire 1939'1945 and the Croix du Combattant Volontaire de la Resistance- Today, the tsrills have n Nontron, 85 miles-from where the p and divide their time between France They also visit regularly the Omaha Eeach (Coltevitte- nt's brother, who was killed in 1944, is buried. Page ?s

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The Etglishwoman who took on the Gestapo -- and survived! (Fron Englbh language edtthn of MARIE CIAIRE $0enber l9N)

The life of Mary Lindell -- one of the unsung heroines of the Second World War. Code-named Marie-Claire, this fearless British aristocrat rescued hundreds of Allied soldiers from occupied France, eaming the dubious accolade of being among the Nazis' to work cleaning bedPans. When the most-wanted uomen, matron complaihed that she wasnt doingdr her iob properly, Mary flicked lhe soiled ByEMILYHOHLER War, single-handedly mmtetmindlng lhe nrudn id ndr tabe anti invited her to do lhe The hct lhat lvlary Lindell survived until escape of hundreds of AlliexJ soldierc fiom 'iob herself. the age of 91, predeceased by two of her occupied France. Followinq her inevltable dismissal, Mary thlee chiHren and her husband, is nothing Marv had a naluraltabnt br war. Sent to ofiered her Services to the Secours Aux short ol a miracle. Duling her lib, she had the We3tem Front as a volunteet nurse Bbsses Militaires, a division of the French been shot in the head, sentenced to death, Red Ctoss which employed arhtocratic twice arrested and incarcerated in a vounq ladbs, such as herself, and soon concenlration camp known as "hell for friunti trerseti on lhe Western front, Few of the qq t0 women.o will have heard of any sometimes accompanying a surgeon . names she went by--the Comtesse de the battlefield, Such duties were consnereo son, Olry, gauged her Millevilb, Comtesse de lvloncy or her code- her sixteen-yearold improper for a young ladY but Mary- "Now you'll be name, Marie-Claire--but Mary Lindell is one mood when he exclaimed, nliknimed the Bebe Anglaise-was of the unsung heroines of the.Second World able to go back h war, Mamma.o - Bi lHxlff ' #if t* tlTsr .Tfl,H'tr tr*--T- ;i ;f o"T,,il"*

(More on next page) Page 28 MORE - MarY Lindell could. By telling them that her mother was War on the range? $rltzerIarxl-where she could get medical the Comtesse de Milleville, she sealed her treatment and comniunicate wilh London. fate. 0n the train to Paris and inevitable death, ,faces Mary considered her chances of escape. .,I t Pretending lo feelill, she asked a German sufi ov rancners guard to escort her to lhe bathloom. Her '/ Bt, lhe Asso<'iated Pre,ss haste aroused suspicion and the firing began before she reached the door. As she ODESSA, Tcx. -- Dec. 2. 1998 -- leapt from the window, a bullet pbrced her The German air lbrcc says the United that Maurice had been imprisoned at Mont cheek and another the base of her skull, States has no court jurisdiction to restrict Luc. By the time the Germans had stopped its Luftwal'fe pilots from lt>w-level the train, she was all but dead, Luckily for Th's was potentially disastrous for all Lraining missions in Wcst Tcxas. those involved with the Marie-Claire line. Mary, her caplors were so terrifpd at lhe The Luftwa{'l'c rcsponded lirst week lo She rushed back to France whete her prospect of losing a prboner with vital daughter Barbe used her bminine charms intelligence that they sent her to the a lawsuit tiled by a coalition <.rf ranchers ard 50,000 ftancs to buy his freedom fiom Lultwaffe hospital al Touns, where a surgeon in U.S. Distnct Cour1. The plaintiffs Klaus Baftie, the Butcher of , who ran painstakingly reconstructed hel skull an claim the low-level tlights endanger the base of her neck. peoplc and livesto,ck. ibe lronically, once Mary had recovered and been sent to Dijion prison, she knew her Near-collisions havc becn rep,<.lrted n chances of survivalwere very remole, with civilian aircraft, us well as sprnked particularly toilured in an efbd to fnd out his mothe/s as it looked like the Allies were horses throlving cowtxlys and peth meantime, Mary was persuaded t0 travel were reluclant to shoot so many trenches back to Switzetland to deliver vital because lhey had no dug in which the Luftra,al'fc and thc U.S. Air Force, to bury the Instead, they were Intelligence about a bod convoy due to bodies. which is truining German pilots at d'spatched to concentralion camps. On leave Bordeaux tor Japan, an operation that Holloman AFB in Alamogordo, N. Mex. meant execution if caught. lvlary was still in September 3, Mary tound herself in No date h:rs been set lbr the lawsuit t

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Enclose check money order, TAX DEDUCTIBLE ror pa id-u p D ues S_e n d ro c | - - -pond,; 19 oak Ridge";;;- n.""iull,. .'.{,u i9, :;il"r::"T,1"il:'J, "o 69401-6539 U.s.A. Page 30 Airmen waited for a,BBC tnessage who had been captured an member of the Royal Canaclian Army (Adapted from text of a research paper tyhich earnecl Qward fromPhi,honorsociety1orttsulryg.llngtheDiepperaidinlg42andlinfull oi captured s.ldicrs. Dumais er rvith students. te .ttuclent o.t Wtitti'itiipi' Cotlege,thePato'LearyLinethathadbeen though not always under that name. ln lc)42, O'Lcary a plan tbr a ions through which By SHERRY OTTIS, Friend member of AFEES devekrped a greater numbcr clf m ut of Francc a[ one Jan. 28, 1944, wasa moonless night in the quiet village of time. Dumais was on by this methc}d' plouha on the western coast of France. curf'ews enacted by There were complicatitlns with his gloup's tescue' s. when German occupation lbrces in Westem Europe aorrng Worli Dumais returned t. France in October 1943 to organiz'e the rn empty streets and the *Yr-*^-'appearance'of a War II resultecl v nlrlv' with sttme ol the sleeping town, b were wide but awa'ke.-Though ' olved hiding y by the nonetheless exci thc month' thcn radio to hear the sentences - d ..1^ ...1 collecting them ar plouha s herc rhe' c.uld be picked up by a that meant nothing to some and a night of busy *iui,v u, British motor gunbcat olf the ctrrst of Anse C

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Getting medical assistance for wounded airmen was olten risky. Jeiy Eshuis, a ball gunner with the B-17 crew of ,:1:

Line was a young woman named Marie Rose Znrlingwho used the name craudette for resistance work. claudette is creoiteo

infection wa.s setting in. A French doctor was found who

paul recruited by Campinchi who had agreed to set up the connections in the paris section for Dumais. An American airman, 2ndLt. Jceph Birdwell, helped her for several months and claimed that she always worked steadily, reliably and cautiously. She knew the situation in which she was working and she believed in precautions. In ..fake" spite of all this, Claudette was the victim of a airman, Olaf Hanson,..Fred', planted by the Germans. Bombardier Frlward J. Donaldson met Fred while staying with a French helper, Mme. Schmidt. Fred claimed to be a Norwegian who flew with the USAAF, but Donaldson stated that,.Fred's stories to us are all self_contradictory, so we were all suspicious and careful." Claudette's anest in Februarv lgt4 was followed by the anest of her parents. She was tortured and sentenced to be executed, but was instead deported to and.grance.d my journey as soon as r wa.s abre to see.,, ft::I,'jl#,:-#tl"l""lffil$;Jltr*HTTfifif Most helpers were willing to the A August l!X5. evaders' but there was a point fire the arrest of any major rcsistance line' Al Mele' Bill Booher an mbers w he escape line. section leaders of Destiny's Tot, were being hidden in the town of St. Just, *"." oft"o the only contact +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++a helper had with the line. The 1999 dues are due! Please complelq and clip or copy this form to chanqes (Dues are 920 per year: Life Meffiershipjs_$100. Edl''' Send checks and changes to Clayton David, ig Oak n $401_65g9. Phone: 573-221-0441 All dues or contributions are acknowledgedl We are concernd about you, your phone number, and your weil being.

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