THE AIR FORCES ESCAPE & EVASION SOCIETY Fall 2OO I Commuuicatiotrs VOLUME 15, NUMBER 4 WICHITA FALIS, TEXAS 763O7.25OL SEPT. 2I,2OOI
(U.5. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Keith Reed) A l94I -era boxcar, the type used to transport Arnerican prisoners of war during WorldWar II, was loaded July 25 onto a C-5 Galaxy u Air Base 125, Istres, France, to be delivered to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The car was donated to the museum by the Frenrh National Railroad Company and the American POW Association. --See story on Page 16-- Page 2 Fal] 2001 [J.S. New Members AIR FORCES WARRENW. COLE 192 Orchard Road. ESCAPE/EVASION Orange, CT W77-lA2 F&E#82I,8AF,306 BG SOCIETY Ph.:203-7954438 Communications MEMBER REINSTATEI) RAWLIN E. O'LEARY Published Quarterly 2665 Robidoux Road Sandy, UT 84093 F&E #17cF,. 8AF, 390 BG Ph.: 801-942-6155 Volume 15 -- Number 4 Sept. 21,2001 New Friends CHAIRMAN: JOHN P. CHOPELAS 'Fx*Rafph K. Pattcrn, 5O00 Alden l)rive, pittsburgh, pA 15220_1O23: 508 South Gray St. Ph.rne: 412--143-ti-570; F AX 412-343-2296 Killeen, TX76yi-7132 I'RTISIDENT: RO 452 BG, *Richard M. Smith,7633 Begonia tane, palm Desert, CA g22ll (Winter) Ph;2545264917 Phone: 760-3 45-22A2; FAX: 760-345_9908 preston OlTice: 81 15 Rd,, Suite 240, Dallas, r-X i5225:211,3i3_t6.7o Ph.:973-377-3103 PI]RMANITNT REPRTLSENTATIVE IN FRANCE: AFEES COMMUNTCATTONS IS THE OFFTCIAL.JOURNAI OF THE AIR Air Force Link: FORCES ESCAPE & EVASION SOCIETY. AFEES TS A TN(-EXEMPT VETERANS AueRrcn UNnpR ATTACK ,I TAN. ALt WE IIAVE DONE . LS TO AWAKEN A SLEEPING GIANT, Ai\D F'ILLED TIIM WITI{ A TERRIBI,E PJSOLVE'' _ADMIRAL YAMAMdTO, COI4MANDER oF JAPANESE FoRCES T}IATATTA(I(ED PEARL }.IARFoR. a NICI( AND trRS( )N/Lou isvi I Ie Cor rricr-Jou rn al FIom Luclen Dewez, Ham-Sur-Sambre, Belglum: My Dear Amerlcan Frlends: llgughts are wtth you, your famllles and relauves on thts Tuesday, Sept.. ll,2OOt.9q - llef. All the European networks are York. The NATO. SHApE and clal proteciloh and runntng wlth Vy wtfe Sophle and I are deep\r concerned for the safety of all our frlends tn the U.S.A. And also, we are t"yt"d to guess who ls behlnd ihts massacre a1d what they are looklng for. We know when lt started. Who knows where the world ls gorng now. It ls dggress]ng to see that the beast was sleeptng somewho".tryttr-g tiset the world on flre agafn. I aln ln sad mood with tears ln my eyes. I wbuld llke,to be wtth you, my dear boyhood heroes. Wlth love from Belglum, LUC Page 4 Fa77 2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ AIR FORCES ESCAPE & EVASION SOCIETY Annual Reunion, Tampa Bag Fla. Thursday--Sunday, May Z-d: ZOO? Wyndhan llrestchore,'4860 West Kennedy 6lvd., Tampa, FL gg6og (Three mtlesJrom Tampa Internatlonal Attpo'1.. Free shuttleJrom Anport) Double or Slngle Occupe.c5r: $Zg pttrs I l.T6oh tax (Rate aleo appltcable two days prlor anA twd days followlng reunlon) Compllmentary Parlrrfirg ln covered garage wlth dlrect entrance to Hotel Check In: 3 pm; ehecik Out: Noon Wednesday, May l, Reglstrailo,n Desk Open tn Afternoon Hospltallty Sulte Open ail5OO hrs. Posslble Board of Dlrectors meeflng Thrrrsday, Mey 2,2OOz Breakfast on your own Hospltallty lutte Open; Reglstraflon Desk Open Mornlng: Opttonal Tours Evenrnn;*"i""*ffJTl'f,"1'Jil11"1ff hH:iilfr"muruhcashbar Frtday, May g, 2OOz Breakfast on Your Own Vlstt MacDlll Alr Force Base (lO mlnutes auray). Tour of base with stops at memorlals, statlc dlsplays, wlng brleflng, Luncheon af offlcers' Club, central Cbmmand and Southern Co Soclal hour wtth members of O Evenlng ls ftee, wlth Dlnner on gaturday, Brealdast on Your Own Clty tour wttb stop at Tampa Mus-eum; Lunch on your own ln ybor Clty Evenlng: Helpers' Dtnner Appalachlan Story fbftng by Ruth and Ashley lvey. Surrday, May 6,20012 Full Buffet Breakfast Memorlal Servlce General Membershlp MeetIrg Evenrng:*""uprHfrlff t"Xlt#":ffi.*;byBansuet Hospttallty Sulte Open Posslbte optTonalexcurslons trctudeBusch Gardensard.TarponSprlngs spongedocks Dcteltcd lnformatlon arrd Resenretlon Forrns wllt be tn ncxt two ncwglettef,r. FalI 2001 Page 4.fi3 foficf' Fdenpe 6 Ft'ndion SoeietV Richard M. Smith Presidenl WINTEH suMMER 76543BogoniaLane , Palm Dessert, CA922ll 36214 Augustana Drive , Battle Lake, Mti 56515 Phone: 760-345-2282, Fax: 760-345-9908 Phone: 21 8-495-21 06, Fax: 21 8,495-3000 Sept. 10, 2001 Dear llembers, Helpers and Friends of AFEES: Hearty greetings from Ottertail Lake, West Central Minnesotal It is a wonderful day todayl (As our age, aren't they all?) In the last few weeks, we have had to say good-bye to two realIy super people. Our Canadian friend Jack Gouinlock is gone. And also one of our highly decorated Helpers in grittdDy, our good and dear friend Pierre Sibriel. Pierre had the best'Both personal wine collection I was ever privileged to drink from. good and wonderful men. May they both RIP. We are atternpting to locate the Army nurses who crash-landed in the Balkans and walked for days to be eventually returned to Allied control. We would Like to find any who are left and invite them to be our guests in Tampa next May. I had an interesting experienbe last month. Some friends are establishing a tilW2 Air l{useum in Fargo, NrD. and asked if I could do a display on E&8. I arranged with Regis University in Denver, Co1o., to send to Fargo the display we had done for Regis in conjunction with their semester of WWII history. Since then, friends have called to tell me that the display is very popular. The display and ribbon-cutting ceremony had nice media coverage. Perhaps AFEES will still get some "Upper Midvrest Coverage..' This has been a relatively quiet summer. It is not too early to make plans for Tampa next l"layl Information on opposite page. Fraternally, RICIIARD M. SIUITH, President Garbo tells story of how fake information was fed the Germans Ralph V. Vollone, a new AFEES Friend member, is of limited value to the enemy was developed and then fed to a member Officers. the Germans. The main value was in the deception that He highly Ttu Spy provided cover for the D-Day invasion. Wln Save Office in Ralph also recommends The SOE Syllabus, Lessons Surrey, U.K. Copies are on sale in American bookstores. in Ungentlernenly Warfare, WorM War 1I. It sheds light on Ralph saysGarfu is Morale Operations and X2 at how Special Operations Executive operated during the war. their best. It offers examples of how false and real information Several MI-5 and SOE fites are now open. Page 6 EaII 2OO7 Meeting some very special peoPle From Splendor in the Skies, B-17 Flying Fortress Association Wallu Walla, Wash, BY DON HAYES May 4-6 was a weekend that was not just difl'crent, it was for me a once-in-a- lifetime experience; and it was also weird and wonderful. I could say it was one of the many terrific and unusual happenings that occured in my lil'e that ha^s prompted me to write my memoirs. The occasion was my wife and I being invited to be guests of the Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society reunicln in Spokane. That's where I I bomb groups u'ere formed in World War II at Geiger Field, and is the home of the Air Force summer and winter survival schools. Men who attended were mostly Air SPOKANE s Corps flyers in WWII, shot down on another o missions by German flak or fighters, but Robert who were never captured and thrown into POW camps. Several men amd wom€n of the Resistance and Undergnrund of many Hungary, Czechoslovakia and In a solemn hour-long ceremony on countries, called "Helpers," were brought Yugoslavia; all had clne thing in common Saturday aftemoon, dorvned fliers and together for the reunion, Some were -- they risked their lives to aid American, combat vcterans were honored with the reunited with their downed combat lliers Caniian ancl Bntish downed airmcn. reading of Gen. Hap Arnold's Memorial and their wives after a 55-year interval. Most had friends, children; parents, or, Service message: They camc from France, the relatives executed by the Nazis for aiding "He lived to bear his counlry's arms, Nctherlands, Bel gium, Denmark, the lliers. he died to save its honor. He flas a soldier, and lte kiew u soldi.er's duty. His sacrifice will help lceep aglow the Jlnming I.orch tha,t lights our lives . , , thnt millions yel unborn may know the priceless joy of liberty. Arul we who Wy homage, and revere his memory, in solemn pride rededicate ourselves . . , lo a <:omplete fulfilment of.llrc taskfor which he so gallantly has placed his l.ife u,pon the allar otman's freedom. A portionzof the memorial service was the Lighting ol'Candles. Almqst every former escaper and thc mcn and women helpers stepped forward tolight a candle and tell in whose honor they lighted it. With emotion and tears, they honored fallen comrades and relatives, Many were civilians on the Continent who during the dark days of World War ll under German occupation harbored the spirit of freedom and forfeited thet lives to help our downed airmen. FATHER, DAUGHTER -- Clifforil Williams of Nederland, A prayer was offered in remembrance Tex., and Luonne Bilke of Dallas, Tex., were among the of that time when the free world was families at the Spokane reunion. allied again evil. FalT 2001 Page 7 'Hump'pilots meet in D.C. IorF. reunron By M/Sgt RICK BURNHAM Air Force Print News WASHINGTON -- Amid mild temperatures and clear skies at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., a handful of historic dviators gathered Aug. 24 to reminisce about their experiences during World War II. It was a time when the temperatures Chairman Raljoh Patton was seated between two charming would drop so low that ice would cover ladies at one of the AFEES reunion dinners in Spokane. the cockpit windows of their cargo At left is Bette'Patlon; Yvonne Daley is at the right. aircraft, and the skies would be lilled with Japanese fighter planes. For the men and women tasked with flying critical supplies over the China- Burma-lndia'"Hump," it was a time when the dangers clf the missicln were outweighed only by its importance to thc war effort. The mission: to deliver much-needed supplies to the Chinese army, which were being dominated by Japan. Supporting those Chinese forces would help keep the Japanese clccupied in southern Asia, instearl of fighting American lbrccs in thc Rrcilic. More than 25O members of the China-Burma-l ndia Hump Pilots Association and their families visited Washingbn for their 56th annual reunion Aug.2l-26. Director John Rucigay is demonstrating a ,naneuvet to Besides touring a C-17 Globemaster Softa fones in this photo taken on the Alaskan cruise. III, dedicated in their honor by Air Mobility Command olficials; the group visited a wide range of historical sites in the areq including the Whrte House'and Penlagon. Jay Vinyard, aC-M pilot and one of about 2,200 surviving people from the group, said the'525-mile route from the Assam Valley in India to the remote airfields of southwest China, wa^s a hartowing one that t Alana Harper found her grand.father's photograph in the Imperial War Museum. There ARE some Yanks in the War Museam! | AlarnHarper recently made avisit purpose of locating that photo. (Ed. section and began the long walk through to the British lrnp erial War Note: The photo is shown on page 20 of the displays. I looked over every case, Murcum in l-ondon to searchfor a the Fall l99fl Communications. It ls one by one. photo of her grandfather, AFEES also shownbetween pages 112 and 113 of In one of the hallways, an unus nl member ( e F latnm De ) Harper. Operation Bulbasket by Paul McCue). wall extended from the other. As I This is what she found. My hosts had told me that the war rounded the corner of it, I turnid to look museum,contained only Royal Air Force at the reverse side instead of passing with By ALANA HARPER and Royal Navy displays; there was my back to it. \ilarner Robblns, Ga. nothing about Americans and even if There it was: the very picture I had I ast May I went to England to visit a what I said was true, the chances of been searching for, at the bottom of college friend. Among the many finding the picture were remote. lengthy explanation of operations of the attractions of London is the Imperial War When I entered the massive lobbv and SAS during World War II. The picture Museum, a large, open building with saw the introducuory displays, inciuding was not as large as I had expected, but it several floors of impressive exhibits. four tanks, two missiles, a sailboat, a bus was one of the largest in the exhibit. On the second floor is a permanent and five airplanes suspended from the Photography is not usually allowed exhibit called "Secret War." The exhibit ceiling, I wondered how I was going to in the museum, but since I had traveled is arranged in a unique style, with a series find a solitary picture among the so far and no one was around, I had my of small rooms connected by narrow couirtless others. friend take a couple of quick photos. hallways. Walls of the hallways are I headed straight for the Secret War They didn't turn out too well because the covered with glass-covered displays of exhibit in hopes that displays of the SAS flash interfered uniforms, pictures, diaries and other would be there. The only pictures there mementoes in chronological order from were small copies inside the glass cases Afew Americans are included in the lfth century to Adolph Hitler, and I emerged unsuocessful. photographs in the ImperialWar father I My had shown me a book I asked a museum guide where I Museum. They were downcd airmenwhol, containing a picture of grandpa my with a might find photos of the SAS. He told voluntarily joined the British Special Air i Jeep and members of the British Special me that if there were any, they would be Services while MIA. Onc Amcrican, Lt. Air Service at the Bon Bon airstrip in in Secret War, but that they "did'nt like Lincoln D. Bundy, a P-51 pilot ftom France. He told me picture that the was having their pictures taken,' so probably Utah, and 27 British SAS troopers were hung in the Imperial War Museum. I there were none to be found. execuled by aGermunftring squadon visited the museum for the express So I returned to the Secret War July 7, 1944. Fa77 2001 Page 9 Here's enother chance to sail the QE2 back to Europe By STANLEY E. STEPNITZ and 9th Air Force. Relatives and friends will be welcome if Upper Marlboro, Md. space is available. Assistant Chairman, Air Armada Commlttee Plans are to board the QE2 in New York in May 20O3 and ln 194, a 9th Air Force Association committee organized sail directly to Cherbourg, amving early morning five days a highly succes$ful projeqt to char[er the eE2 and sail to later, then continuing to Southampton, U.K., the following Cherbourg, France to participate in the 5oth anniversary morning. In Cherbourg, there will be a formal ceremony at celebration of the D-Day invasion of Normandr'. The eE2, the U.S. Cemetery at Omzrha Beach and a formal military ball except for Queen Elizabeth's flagship Bnrcrlrua, *'as the star of' on the Queen the evening before sailing,for England. the show. Those who participated still rare about the event. In Southampton, tours will be organized to visit WWII With this in mind, a group of veterans of rhe onginal locations, such as the American Air Museum at Duxford, the committee have decided to repeat the performance in 20O3. American Cemetery at Cambridge and a visit to [,ondon. Cunard Lines has agreed to support the program and has given This notice is to inform AFEES members of plans for this us ihe "first right of refusal" for such a progam in 2004, \ event. If you are interested in receiving lurther information, g2nd The prqect will include participants from the complete the survey form below and mail it to the address Airborne Division, l0lst Airborne Division, 8th Air Force indicated. Details, including costs, will be announced later. AIR ARMANDA PROGRAM PARTICIPATION INQUIRY QUESTIONNAIRE 1. Name (Wife) Other f-amrly members: Frrends of Sponsor: 2 Mailrng address: ( Street) (Apartment) (Cityt (State and zIP) 3 Telephone -t Fa.x: 5 Email address. 6. Veteran'l 7. Military organization: 8 Military occupation or specialty: 9 Civilian career specialties: Pleasb indicate your interest in this event and an intent to participate: Yes Will advise as soon as I can determine to do so. Comments: Please complete this form and mail it to: Air Armada Committee cio V.S. Pedone, Col USAF (Ret) P.O. Box 572 New York. NY 10156-0601 Page 10 FaTl 2007 Lynn Daiid, his son Jon, Clayton and Jim David bridge in the Pyrenees Mountains. Lynl and Jon carry bac trip lhat Clayton and Ken Shaver made in 1944. The spe ead, The Hike to Clayton's Peak -- 1944 This eould be a F'irstl 3 generations make the walk By LYNN A. DAVID interned until their negotiated release that the mounlains sparked my desire to learn Sunset Hills, Mo. permitted them to go on to Gibraltar and more about.what it was like climbing [,ong as I can remember, I've known be tlown back to England. those mountains. that my dad, Clayton David, hnd a special When I finally met two of Dad's Going over the F'reedornT'rail with experience during WWII. I knew that he helpers, Joke Folmer and Jac<1ues Vrij of Scott Goodall and others, including the bailed out of a burning airplane and Holland, along with some other helpers U.S. contingent in 1.999 and putting it landed near Amsterdam, Holland. He who risked their liyes to resist the all on video increased my desire Io retmce always spoke with great admiration and a Cermans by aiding Allied flyers, I Dad's trip through the mountains. special feeling about the people who recognized why these people are special. Scveral efforts to find a guide failed. helped him evade the Germans through They are individuals who like people, Then Scott and Clayton's helpers Jean the crcupied countries o[ Holland, have faith in the future and were willing and Paule began a lcrcal search. The Belgium and France to the Pyrenees to risk their'lives for othcrs. Arhex's had becn buying gcxrt Mountains. cheesc In 1$)5 while Europc was trom Thierry Artiere, a young Basque The climax to his cxperience was the celebrating the 50th anniversary of the f armer at the end ol a road on,the three days and nights that he and Kenneth end of the war in Europe, I went with my mountain. Shaver spent in the "Forbidden Territory" mother and dad to visit helpers and Could he possibly know the potential of soulhwest France walking, climbing participate in the event. With the trail to the top? He might, and when he the rnountains, treading through waist- INTREPIDUS people and a film crew, studied detailed maps with Scott, J6an,and deep snow above the tlmberline to the . we visited some of the places Dad toured Paule, he was confidenr he could finrl French/Spanish border, anh then the in I94. Seeing Jean and Paule Arhex at way. The roads and trails in the forbidden descending on their own down into Jean's birth home and being shown the ' zone of l94leading to the mountain Sparn. There they were arrested and start of the trail Dad and Ken tcxrk over climb, were already known to Jean and page Fa77 200L 11 Paule and had been shou,n to my mother, and was there instead of in Braz.il where rernembered about l!X4. Dad and I went dird and me in 1995. Jean and Paule had planned to be with this far alone in 1995. but f'rom here on That part of the tnp had consumed him. What a great turn t'lf'events! was new territory. It wan into heavy about half of Dad and Ken's time in Jack decided to'use the opportunity to forest for us and a walk back down the 1944, so we decided not to repeat it on do filming and produce a documenlary of trail for Jim. Dad. Jack and Alice. foot, but to concentrate on the mountain his parents with one ol'theairmen they As we picked eur rvay through the climb. In April of 2ff)1, about the time hadhelped 57 years before. It was Jean's lbrest'we tried to imagine what it must of year when Dad and Ken made their father, who from that very home, had have been doing this in total darkness, led clirnb, Scott and Thierry planned to test found the Basque guide for Dad and Ken. by a guide you did not know, and the trail before spring vegetation covered Now, Jean and Paule had found the guide uncertain about where Gernan guards the ground. A spring snowstorm lbr us, a second and third ge neration. may be. We're not sure about the barn prevented the test climb, but added Early on Saturday the l4th, we they rested in the last'day, waiting for understanding to u,hat Ken and Dad had gathered at the lcxlt of the Holcarte Gorge darkness before that final climb in the experiencrd. to begin our climb. The group included clouds that would take them above the Our plane r'eservations 1o Paris f rom our guide Thierry Artierc, Scott and Judy timberline in deep snow at the top of the St. l-ouis and return were made earlv in Gcxxlall, my son Jon, my lriend Betsy moun!ilns that divided Franoc and Spin. 20O1. We adjusted our travel time io Patterson and myself, all headed for the However, we reached a shepherd's hut visit in Belgium and Holland before the top of the tnnountain. whereThieny had ma ^The three-gene_rational their backpacks |r,ith f2oil, wqter _and, equipme e Pyrenees- Mountains. Frgm the left: Lynn A. David, Scott Goodall, fona.than David., Juily S. Daviil and guide Thieny Artiiere.- FIITES pECI,ASSIFTEp_ More oSS records open at National Archiues It pening ofjust released in France and Nor-lvay, and OSS penetration of the German OSS at College park, Md., in Foreign Office. June and researchers were Tlrc released files and some 3,000 additional OSS recurds present to inspect some 4OO,00O pages of previously classified including Japanese war crimes, are expected to provide OSS documents from World War IL historians with not only material about Nazi war criminals, The material included prisoner of war interrogations, but also new details about World War II and OSS refugee and emigre debriefings, reports on clandestine missions contributions. The 3;000 docuntents are being declassified. , -\rLJ Fa77 2001 Page L3 His P- 47 rises from the grave .) From the Abilene (Tcxas) Repofter-Ncws Association, uncovering theP-47 Thunderbolt was a true find. S Sunday, July 29, 2001 According to the diggers, the Thunderbolt was the best preserved of any of the 30 planes they have excavated. By LORETTA FULTON One reason, they believe, was that the pilotless plane Repofter-News Staff Writer crashed straight into the ground from 50O feet without MARIEKERKE, BELGIUM -- One look at the slnashed skidding. According to Verstraeten's published account, pieced radio from his otd P-47 Thunderbolt was all it took to put Bill together from eyewitnesses and official documents, as well as Grosvenor back in the cockpit. Grosvenor's own recollections, the crash occurred around noon Never mind that the guts of the plane had been buried 15 on Nov. 30,1943. feet deep in rich, black Belgian soil for 58 years. And never Grcxvenor had just returned from an escort mission, mind that Grosvenor is now 81, many years removed from his covering a bombing raid aimed at the Solingen industrial days as a dashing World War II fighter pilot. facilities in Germany. His Thunderbolt was part of the 61st "Tha[ was on.the left side of the cockpit," Grosvenor said Squadron of the 56th Fighter Group of the U.S. 8th Air Force with a voice of authority as he examined the mud-coated radio. based in England. According to accounts, Grosvenor's plane That self-a.ssurance carried Grosvenor through many tough developed a vapor lock in the fuel line, forcing him to try to missions during the war before he had to bail out of his make it back to his home base. damaged plane on Nov. 3O, 1943. Since then the P47 has Riding his P-47 down to an altitude of 3,000 feet, rested beneaeth the gentle farmland of northwestern Belgium, Grosvenor managed to restart his engine and took a heading for and Grosvenor (pronounced GROVE-nor) has lived a civilian's England. He eventually dropped to treetop level and suddenly life in Abilene found himself directly over the German Deurne airfield. The warplane and its pilot were reunited July 21, thanks to As he crossed into the Klein-Brabant region of Belgium, the efforts of Belgian Aviation History Association volunleers Grosvenor spotted a military train and decided to spend his who unearthed the plane. The excavation was part of a two- unused ammunition on it. But as he tried to regain altitude week jounrcy of rememberance for Grosvenor, wife Doris and afterstrafing the train, his plane brushed the Uop of a tree and son David, who is planning adocumentary about his dad's hit a telegraph pole. exploits and the Belgian Resistance that aided Allied pilots With a damaged engine, Grosvenor managed to getthe sho[ down during the war. plane up to 50O feet before it faltered. After that, much of Other highlights of the tnp included a reception befitting a what he did came on instinct. war hero, reunions with pmple who helped Grosvenor, and "When it stalled, I just jumped out," he recalled. national television and newspaper coverage in Belgium. For the unassuming Grosvenor, who prefers a quiet game of golf Unexpected enthusiasm to standing in the spotlight, it was almost too much. *If I had known this wa.s going to happen, I wouldn't have The plane crashed in flames several hundred yards away, done it," he joked. where the engine, three propeller blades, all eight machine His wife has no doubt he wa^s telling the truth. Since tlreir guns, a medical kit, radio and much of the framework remained marriage in 1945, Doris Grosvenor said that her husband has until eight days ago. Because of the nose-down crash, the rarely spoken about his wartime adventures. wreckage was concenhated in a relatively small area that Meeting the pilot researchers pinpornted with metal detectors. The soft, fenile soil of the Klein-Brabant region quickly settled around the wreckage where it remained untouched for 58 Nothing could have pleased the Belgians more than to hear years. The dig started at 9115 a.m. on a typically cold and the story of lst Lt. William p. Grosvenor in his own words. rainy Belgian day. Within 5O minutes, workers struck paydirt" At a dinner on the night the entourage arrivecl in Belgium, host Word spread quickly around the perimeter where dozens of Walter Versftaeten toasted a man he ha.s long considered a true spectators and camera crewmen watched- hero. "I consider myself one of the happiest people in the "They may have found the landing gear!" a volunteer yelled. world tonighl" said Verstraeten, a Belgian author and historian Soon four machine guns, handsful of unspent .50 caliber who chronicled Grosvenor's crash in a 1999 book before ever ammunition and twisted framework were lifted by a backhoe meeting the Texas pilot. from the damp soil. Before the day was gone, all guns, the Verstraeten said he couldn't believe his luck when engine, radio and many smaller pieces were dug up and contac0ed by David Grosvenor of Austin, who was inquiring transported to a fire station for cleaning before making their way about his dad's ordeal. When Vershaeten realized the to the Belgian Aviation History Association Museum. Grosvenor family was coming to Belgium, he was beside Waiching in amazement himself with joy. was Bill Groevenor. Part of the serial number on the plane's tail was still visible, proving that Verstraet€n orchestrated local activities lbr Grosvenor,s it was his P-47. Still, it was hard !o believe. return, including the excavation. For the amateur archae- Lifting the top off a piece of hydraulic equipment, ologists who make up the Belgian Aviation History Grosvenor sniffed the fluid sealed inside. He ran his fingers over Page 14 FaII 2007 the plane's radio, its copper covering shining like new. The Frazier, a McMurry history professor and, director of the best find, though, was a piece of seat belt that Grosvenor chose McWhiney Foundation. as his only souvenir to take home. Euphoria over the excavation barely had time to sink in "That's the last thing I touched," he remembered. before a garden party the following day to honor Grosvenor. Warching the plane being pulled from the ground, bit by bit, WWll-period U.S. Army vehicles stood guard at the entrance. was exciting but Grosvenor said that thrill couldn't match the Inside a U.S. flag and one from the [.one Sar Shte servedas pride he got from having such a large crowd present. backdrop while Big Band music put guests in the proper mo 'I could flv it' lst Lt. William Grosvenor, E&E 1881, was given help minutes afier he pttrachuted out of his P-47 snd soon was taken Grosvenor's file lists his name, tiorn" uOA."r. and other lo Brussels, where he remained in hiding until liberated by the pertinent inforrnation beside a small photo of a handsome, advancing Allied groundforces on Sept.' 10, 1944. dashing fighter pilot. *k, AT REST IN THE GRAVEYARI) -- The Arizona desert near Kingman is ' packed with B-1.7s. Page 16 Fa77 2001 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++#+++++++++++++ AFEES PX Serves You! Brand New ltem! TIIE SILVER FLYING BOOT frum Bxcalibur Conception (Frank Massiou) A craftsrnaninNontnon, France, has produced the OTHER MENCHAND'SE AVAILABLE FAR AFEES emblcm in ster{ing IMMEDIATE DELIVERY: silver. Now availnble fnom the PX! (Suppty is timited) (Ernblem is smaller than photo) TEE SHTRTS -- (M-L-EXL-XXL) ...... $10 Museum gets lO-piece TOOL KlT, with AFEES logo . .$ 8.00 WW WINGED BOOT EMBLEMS llboxcor Lapel Pin,3/4in.Pewter ...... 6.00 Lapel Pin, 1 in. blue shield with boot ... 7.50 JromFtanee Cloth with metallic thread (dry clean only) ...... 5.00 (See Related Photo Cotton Sport Shirt Patch (can be laundered).,.,...,.2.50 on Front Page) By Ist Lt. Carie A" Seydel BLAZER PATOH Air Force Print News Royal Btue onty ....g10.00 ISTRES, France -- The Air Force airlifted a World War II rail car, AFEES MERCHAND]SE historically used as a prisoner-of-war Car License ...... $12.00 troop train, to the Air Force Museum at Plate Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, on July 25. Clock, Helping Hand logo (with battery) 15.00 The boxcar, donated by the French Decals, exterior or interior . 6 for 2.00 National Railroad Company and the Southwestern Style Bolo Tie American Prisoner of War Assoc-iation, Note Pad with Pen (Things to Do) 4.00 will be used to complete a POW display Lapel Pin (American Flag & AFEES) ,...... 2.00 at the museum. "When the American POW Associalion offered the doiration, it took OFFICIAL AFEES CAPS us about two seconds to say 'Yes,' " said Mesh Back, Navy Blue or White ...... $12.00 retired Maj. Gen" Charles D. Metcalf. Closed Back, Navy Blueonly ...... :...... 12.00 xxxxThe Air Force Museurn director expects it will help complete,tlle Add $3.OO per order for shipping & baldling prisoner-of-war display, Using train Make checks Dauable to ffFEES: mail to: tracks, theatrical lighting and achral memorabilia, the museum will THOMAS H. BROI{N ,JR. PX Manager incorporate the vehicle as a walk-through ' exhibit. 104 Lake Fairfield Drive Downed American pilots were sent to Greenville, SC 296L5-1506 G.ermany and Poland on this type of car Phone: 854-244-8420 during World War II, said Gen. Francois , e-mail,; tbrownlo4Bcs . con Beck, the French air force's air moblitv +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ cornmander. Fa77 2001 Page 17 BopL Review Spy thriller adventures SILENT HEROES, Downed airman after such a turn of events boost€d Airmen and the French the morale of those back on the bases so Underground, by Sherri Greene much that military higher-ups began !o Ottis, University Press of pay more attention to early efforts to return Kenhrcky, $24 cl,othnound. such airmen. "It By SUE GRAUERHOLZ ELLISON was an amazing feat for an evader to return Sherri Greene Ottis' recently published in I94l-42, but by 1943 Allied airmen knew that Siknt Heroes: Downed Airmen and the should they be shot down over occupied FrerchUnderground may be the best territory, they had a fiiTo clnrcn of successfully , resource to date for AFEES members who evading and returning home," she evaded in France and want to know more writes. about their helpers and the methods they There are passages that will elicit a usd. chuckle from those who remember being At one point, Dedee, arriving in Spain taught how to hide their Her 185-page work, a.dissertation for a American ways to with her first evaders, meets with the pass ils Frenchmen. Ph.D. degree in history, is thoroughly For example, Sheni British vice consul. He "listened in says, '"To overcome researched, with an extensive bibliography the language barrier, amazement as the young woman told him and footnotes, guides taught the airmen to pretend but her stories about the they where she was from and why she had come helpers themselves were deaf and dumb, but soon there make it deeply was an to his office. He first thought she was a personal. overflow of 'deaf' men in It is a comprehensive body of Europe. It is odd German plant, for surely this small blue- research; that the Germans did not wonder there is a lot of material here. about the eyed blonde wearing ankle socks and saddle Using large numbers of deaf mutes and newly released declassified half-wits oxfords could not possibly have led three documents, running around France, since anytime she was able to draw new a men all the way across occupied France and insights into helper got caught with an evader, he . the workings of the major or she over the furenees. But Dedee's youthful, fisually claimed the evader escape lines: the Pat O'Lrary Line, the was a mute or almost fragile appeaxance belied her Comet an idiot." Line and the Shelburne Line; extraordinary strength of character. " Some She goes on to tell the readers may rgmember Sherri's story ofa Dedee proved to be a force to be heanfelt article British evader who was stopped in these pages two years and reckoned with When her work was over, ago about her effort as a part searched. His.helper told the German of a group of "she had rescued 1 18 evaders since her first patrol oflicer Americans and Europeans that retraced a that the man, who had dirtv trip to Spain in August I94L." path taken escapees: socks smeared with chocolate in his by She had to drop Some of the more poignant parts of the out of the suiicase, was insane had walk midway, which allowed her and defecated in book have to do with emotions of helpers. to experience his luggage. The German firsthand the anguish of was convinced They "rescued almost six thousand downed evaders and passed them through the who were forced to remain behind checkpoint. airmen by clever ingenuity and a because of But this book is no light reading. illness or injury. I am pleased willingness to sacrifice whatever they had, that she Detailed explanations of the later returned !o France to betrayals that including their lives, to tacilitate the men's led to the collapse complete the Freedom Trail. of the O,Leary Une and escapes," Sherri notes. the near collapse of the Sherri is no stranger to AFEES. She Comet Line read A helper on the Shelburne Line has attended more like a very gcxd spy than annual meetings. She has thriller a remembered, "There were a few times when interviewed history dissertation. scores of members, and stories I wished it were me going home . . . this of many members This spy thriller has a real tragic are retold in the book. farewell was always emotional for us, Yet this remains ending, however. Even German a scholarly work. militarv because we had the urge to get in the boat, Sherri intelligence was astonished explains in the text that not at the urount too, and say" 'l'd like to iest awhile.' '. only were of information that the traitor airmen expensive to train and Harold Cole ln the chaper headed " We Will Neven expensive was able to provide about to replace, but the return of an the O'Leary Forget," Sherri follows up ofl several Line. Sheni tells about +++++++ the arrests, the helpers who are alive today. Maay of +++++ ++++ +++ ++ deportations, the tortures, the executions these she has visired and befriended. The $ilent Heroes can be found in thal followed. bookstores book contains photographs of several. or cdn be- ordered. I liked the account of Dedee de Jongh, Buy this book. Give it to your from the author at 717 chief organizer of the Comet Line. She children and your grandchildren. You'll be ton, MS had few qualifications for thb job. She was able to share your story in a way you may is $24, a 2Ayear-old commercial artist and a not have been able to do before. ostage in volunteer for the Red Cross, but she also And after you do that, donate a copy to had "an intense hatred for all +++++++++++++++++++++ things your favorite library. Don't forget to German," Sherri wriles. inscribe a dedication. Page 18 Ea77 2007 Henry gets hero treatment From the Northwest Florida .Daily News, Fort Walton Beach' ' Fla., Aprit 22, 2001 By Kimberly Blair Staff Writer NICEVILLE, Fla. -- Henry Wolcott was given a hero's welcome last mopth when he returned to Brussels, Belgium, for the first time since World War II. Newspapers splashed his return across the front pages and broadcast news captured the moment. Dignitaries welcomed him, including the president of the Belgian Parliament. Children begged for his autograph. He was paradedaround the countryside. "l was treated like royalty," said WolcoIt,78. The native of Lansing, Mich., who retired to Niceville 15 years ago, returned to the picturesque country with his wife, R.osemary, and several of their children to thank the people who saved his life 57 years ago. The people of the village of Aaigem, including survivors of the World War II Belgian Resistance, turned out en masse to thank him lor helping them fight the tyranny of Nazi Germany. On May A,194/, the plane Wolcott was piloting was shot down near Brussels. As a 25-year-old first lieutenant with the U.S. Army Air Corps, Wolcott was flying a dangerous mission -- dropping supplies to the Resistance. It was his 19th mission with the same nlne crewmembers he had hooked Henry Wolcott displays pieces of his B-A anll remnants up with while training in Blythe, Calif., of his and crewmates' parachutes. Their Carpetbagger in 1943. plane was downed in Belgium in 1944 while dropping In the sky over German-occupied supplies to the Resistance. Wolcott recently returned to Belgium, Wolcott's 8.24, C Ior Charlie, Belgium and was given a hero's welcome. was hit by fire lrom a German fighter. of the group. Before the plane crashed into a farm flteld, recalling the mission of 57 years ago. In the spnng of 1944, the Naz.is were most of the crew mana$ed to parachute "We dropped containers of guns, stepping up their program of genocide. out. The tail gunner, Sgt. Richard ammunition, money and what the They were clearing out so-called ghettos Hawkins,22, of Marion, Ohio, was Resistance group needed. " in which Jews were being detained and apparently shot and didn't make it out -- Despite great danger to themselves increasing executions of men, women and a point that still evokes sadness in and their families, mernbers of the children in death camps. Wolcott, Resistance hid the airmen. "At the time time, forces were "We were known by the code word there were 56 (Resistance members) in At the same Allied fight against Hitler, 'Carpetbaggers,' with the 4o6th Bomb and around the village of Aaigem. By the gaining ground in the high Thousands of Squadron,492nd Group, based out of end of the war only five were left," said but irt a cost. airplanes were Herrington, England," Wolcott said, Wolcott, clearly impressed by the bravery Americans and Allied . Fa77 2001 Page 19 being shot down. "The day we went do nothing but pray. troops were,entering Brussels and the down, there werc42American and British "I'm a strong Catholic and have a Nazis fled. aircraft that did not return to base," very strong relationahip with the Blessed "The doors were all locked," Wolcott Wolcott said. Virgin Mary. I said the rosary every day said. "Someone, I don't know who, The resistance group was helping and prayed by the rosary," she said. picked the locks and we were able to get many surviving airmen. Wolcott and five "One night I dreamt that I saw him out. Anotlrer guy and I hid in a field others, including another American pilot, walking over a held and I knew he was until the next morning." Al Sanders of Rockledge (Fla) were alive. And I never had a doubt that I'd see The men then walked into a village being shuffled from one safe house to him agai1," she said. and later managed to catch a ride on an another. On Sept. 3,194, Wolcott and his English troop,carrier into Brussels. On his recent visit, Wolcott took his cellmates.were sent to a train as British Wolcott was immediately flown back to family to see some of the houses. Emil and Canadian trmpe engaged fhe Germans England after.a stop in Paris. Boucher, who risked his life hiding in a fierce battle nearby. He and Rosemary were married a Wolcott decades earlier, escorted the 'The Germans loaded all the prisoners month later. grouP. on board. There were about 2,000 people Wolcott has always longed to return Eventually, five of Wolcott's crew on the train. A lot were Jewish people to the see the places parnfully etched into evaded capure and managed to escape. going to a concentration camp,'o he said. his memory. Afbr two months of hiding out, the "I knew this was a goocl thing for us. I "I wanted to thank the people for highly feared Nazi police, the Gestapo, was in good spirits because I thought risking their lives on my behalf, " he arrested Wolcott and three others. they'd have a heck of a time getting us to said, his voice cracking as emotions "We slept under floorboards and in Germany because of all the bombing bubbled tro the surface. attics," he said, recalling the constant fear going on around us. And, it worked out What he discovered is that the epirit of being discovered. fine," he said. ,"We that fueled members of the Resistance were arrested by a couple who Fate was on his side this time. The group continues to burn today in both the had a fake escape route to Swirzerland: train turned out to be what would become :survivors and in the younger generation. They turned us in," he said. known as the Nazi Ghost Train, which . tThe Belgians suffered so much under 'lThe couple had tricked us qut of our was the focus of a documentaly first aired the Germans, twice in ohe generation. In dogtags. We had Belgian passports and on the History Channel on May 1,2Q0o. 1914 and l94O," he said. '"They never civilian clothes." The Resistance thwarted the train wanted to be taken over by the Germans Wolcott and Sanders, along from leaving with other Brussels for six days as the or anyone else. They teach their children American GIs, were sent to St. Gilles, a Allies advanced. The Belgians intervened about the resistance." daiik, ancient prison in.Brussels in.a number of where ways. Th-y let the Wolcott was a living piece of history hunger and cold took its toll. locnmotive's fire go out and switched for the new generation of Belgians who "Five men shared one tracks so cell. We were the train went in the wrong didn't experience the war. Schoolchildren only given bread to eat. We slept on direction -- anything to stall for time. are Caken to the site where Wolcott's stf,aw," he said. "The Belgian engineer came up with plane was disoovered and they are shown One bucket served as the all reasons restrmm kinds of why the train could the graves and cemeteries of American and facility. not go on," said Wolcott. Allied servicemen who diql fighting for The memory of the month of I-oaded during the misadventure, he theirfreedom. imprisonment is still painful. and Sanders spent only about two days on Said Wolcott of his red-carpet In his attractive home tucked the train before in a it was stopped 10 miles,' featment,'They did all this for me as a neatly planned neighborhood in Niceville, ouLside Brussels. By that time, Allied way to.show appreciation to the U.S." Wolcott leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and began reciting the poem he ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ read daily to forrify his belief tltat he would return home some day. 'ilt's hane. It's hame, It's hame va Imposter betrays fain would be. Though the cloud is on the left and the wind is in the lea. But the sun through murk blinks blyth on mine et, sals I'll sine on ya yet in your Belgian Patriots ain countr5l." Wolcott's words trailed off as his eves By VrRGrt nrinco there was no evidence of a reception at the welled with tears. (Information provided by Dirk target. The plane had just swng around to Rosemary, 78, his wife of 52 years, Vijverman, Haaltert.Belgium) begin its homeward journey when it was dabbed her eyes as the memories of those The target on May ?3, l94,was attacked by a night fighter and received darkdays flooded back. "Osric 53" in Belgium. At an altitude of three damaging bursts. She remembers getting word that her 7,000 feet, the Carpetbagler aircraft, "C According to AFEES member Fred fiancee was missing in action and for could CHARLIE', made three passes, but Tuttle,'a crew member, the attack Page 20 Fall- 2001 r(Continued from Page 19) occurred at the checkpoint, Enghien. The fighter was shaken off, and IheB-Vt turned north. Another attack came from the side. Bullets ripped through the wing tanks, the fuselage and the navigator's compartment Fire broke out and the pilot, Henry Wolcott, could no longer maintain pontrol of the plane and he purrched the bail-out alarm. All the crew except one whose chule failed to open bailed out successfully. Belgian patriots began finding the airmen and hiding them while the enemy was searching surrounding villages. The B-A crashed at the village Aaigem, hamlet Ashage in a pasture near Countess Du Farc. An ll-year-old Genevieve Laine and her father are among After a week of unsuccessful searches, the group posed in front of the tail fin of Luck of Juilith the Gestapo planted an imposter posing Ann, B-17G which crashed on their farm Aug. 11' 1944. as an Australian airman. The impo'ster, named Martens, walked the streets of Aaigem, Ressegem and Burst, asking for help. B-17 ghost ship landed Help was offered, but after an interrogation in Aaigem, he was found to be a Gestapo plant. The Resistance then in afield near Lanloup tmk the imposter to the home of a By GoRDoN CARTER and hurled into a flield. member and imprisoned him in a dry Ploubaelanec, France But what a surprise! The plane, an water well. He managed to trick a father (Trunslated from an articlc in thc American B-17G, was empty; not a soul and adult daughter to help him out of the annual journal of the SocietY for on board, no bombs in the bay, a few well so he could use the toilet. The Historical and Archeological machine guns still in place, some with Resistance group anived soon to find that Studles of the Goelo.) loaded belts. the impo,ster had escaped by climbing the On the afternoon of Aug. ll,I94, Since the Germans had pulled out of back wall and tnd disappearcd- in fine weather, Genevieve Laine, 11 thearea a few days before, many liral The imposter soon informed the years old, now Mrs lr Guilloux, was sightseers had their picture takeh around Germans about whathad happened at playing in her parents field at Boulsec'h the plane and on the wings. Aaigem and pointed out homes of people in Lamloup, near the border with Plouha l.ocal residents still own some of uitro naA interrogated him, as well as the Her attention was suddenly drawn !o an these photos. Scraps of the ship, home of the family where he had been abnormal noise beyond the fields where especially broken pieces and some with placed in the well. she spotted aplane to landward, headed labels "made in USA" were much sought On July 2l,the day Belgium has for the sea. after by collectors who flocked to the site celebrated independence since 1830, the It skimmed the tops of tall trees, for several weeks, trampling Mr. laine's Gestapo arrived, anestod 19 Parriots and which caused it to swerve to the left, beetroots, intenogated them in presence of lvlartens. toward her, then clipped an electricity Aft€r that, the Vandenkerckhove The Gestapo searched the homes of pylon by the roadside. It finally made a Company cut up the plane for salvage. the Patriots for guns and documents of belly landing across the trop of the field in Oddly, according to people living in the Resistar.rce, as well as for clothing of which Genevieve stood. the alea, the Plouha-based police did not the "C for Charlie" crew. They found The aircraft came to rest facing east, report the incident. nothing. in a huge cloud of dust, having struck a The 19 Patriots were taken to hedgerow. Two engines appenred to be V[hence this Fortress, why- Oudernarde and Gand for more still running, despite their propeller did it crash, what had interrogation and then to the prison of blades having been twisted. happened to the crew?. Gand, "Nieuwe Wandeling." After Yves [r Chapelain, standing in a torture, a few were freed and the others field afew hundred yards away from the It was easy to identify the aircraft were transfened to the concentralion camp crash site, speaks of it beheading a beech from the data on thd tailfin: a white of Neuengamme in Germany. Only a few tree which swung it around and hitting triangle (lst Bomb Division), the letter . return€d aft€rthe war. the poles. No. 2 engine was torn loose "U" (4tth Bomb Group), the letter "F- .. FaIt 2001 Page 2L and the serial number. From there, we vicinity of l-anvollon and was conveyed established the progress of the plane, to Guingamp by motorbike. The town Briefing at Five nicknamed Luck of lttdith Ann, had been liberated four days earlier, the By THoMAS B. APPLEWHITE The ship took off that day from last German strong points having been Bombardler, 3ESth Bomb Group Station 130 near Peterborough, north of reduced on Aug. 7 by the U.S. 8th Army. Great Ashfield, England London, and crossed the English coast Co-pilot Sayer, who had injured his It's cold inside at 3:00 A.M. southeast of Plymouth. It was part of a ankle and whose head had been snapped When bare feet hit the floor; formation of three boxes of 12 planes and by his parachute harness as the chute It's dark outside at 4:00 A.M. headed for the I.P. southwest of Brest and opened, was picked up by civilians who When you close the mess hall set course for the target, a trio of coastal invited him to cups of "burned wheat," door. batteries. (roasted barley) mffee, which was the Each plane dropped 10 500-lb. bombs best he had tasted in a long time! It's tense inside at 5:00 A,M. at 25,000 feet at 1708 hours. He was also escorted to Guingamp, When the briefing table's lit, Flak came up and a shell ripped where he met his comrade. They spent It's foggy out at 6:00 A.M. through Judtth Ann near the copilot's the night at a lawyer's home which Sayer Out where the bombers sit. seat, severing controls of the engines on remembers as a house near the town the right wing. Another engine had ro be center, an oblong area where the Und€r- It's cramped inside at 7:00 A.M. you close bomb-bay feathered. With only one engine, the ground had conalled German prisoners. When the doors. ship left the formation ten minutes later He was told that the bed he slept in was It's noisy out at 8:0O A.M. as it headed north across the channel. previously that of a German colonel. Over smiling English moors. Warned against the dangers of The next day a U.S. Army Jeep drove ditching, 2d Lt. Ross veered to the right, the two flyers to field headquarlers of VIII It's quiet inside at 9:00 A.M. and set course eastward, soon crossing the Army Corps near St. Malo, from where When you cross the channel coast and overflying land, in the region of they were flown to Cherbourg- ports, the Abers. Tlp plane was losing altitude Maupertuis by two-sea0er Stinson L-5 It's tough inside at 10:00 A.M. at the rate of 2,00O feet a minute, despite Sentinels. They hitched a ride from there When the ship in front aborts. jettisoning some of the armament. back to England onaC-4'7. Having Believing themselves to be above made their back to base at Glatton they It's flackv out at t1:00 A.M. on the bombing leg; freed territory, and having spotted only a were greeGd by their colonel, who was Whin It's bad downstairs at 1l:15 single landing strip full of bomb craters, welcoming back the day's mission, with When the bombers lav their probably Morlaix-Ploujean airfield, the words: "How in hell did you two eggs. unable to make it back to England, still return on this mission?" wary of having to dirch at sea (St. Brieuc Bombardier Matassa landed in a hav It's brisk inside at 1:00 P.M. Bay lay ahead of them), the pilots decided tield wheie he was surrounded by And also brisk at 2:00; to abandon ship at 12,000 feet. Frenchmen who kept repeating the word, One ship's down and one lags back; The crew baled out at random, the "carrrarode."They led him to a small The escort's over due. bombardier jumped at 10,000 feet, house where they arranged hisjourney to pulling the ripcord ar 5,000. The pilots England, where he was the first to arrive. It's tired inside at 3:00 P.M., went out last, at 8,0ffi feet, after having He reported making use of his escape kit, It's tired and sore and stiff, glad at switched on rhe auto pilot, which did not to feed himself and get his bearings. It's within 4:00 P.M. Over chalky Dover's Cliffs. prevent the plane from rapidly losing The crew were interrogated by USAAF altitude. intelligence upon their return to England It's quiet inside at 5:00 P.M. The pilot, Gerald Ross, landed in the and given special E&E serial numbers, a 'When your bunkmate's puppy +++++++++++++++++++++++ procedure no doubt called for by the whines; proximity of the fast-changing front line. It's tired inside at 6:00 P.M. THE CREW Having baled out over liberated Where the combat crews all dine. tenitory and reporting back in record Luck of Judith Ann time, the band was more fortunate than It's cold, it's dark, it's tense, it's their buddies shot down over hostile soil. brisk, ' Pilot 2d Lt Gerald B. Ross The other ships in the formation returned It's tired all through and ayer that day without incident. through; Tingh Post-war, Ross was a PanAm pilot It's quiet, it's loud, it's war, it's risk, Matassa until retiremegt And we're up tomonow, too. in 1979, and now resides ++++++-++++++++++H#+#+# in Nevada. Co-pilot Sayer lives in Florida. AFEES member Tom Applewhite.s Thus, after other such cases, is a B-17 was the only U.S. bomber ktst World War II mystery solved. on Armistice Day 1943. Downcd over Holland, he was helped by thz Comet liru Both Ross and Sayers are members of in France and escorted ++++++++++++++++++++{ AFEES. over lhe Pyrenees by JeanFrancois Nothomb (Franco). Page 22 Fa77 2001 Ike led the parade tn AllegnA From the Longvlew (Texas) or were imprisoned. Tears flowed from lVlorning Jounnal, June 3, l9E4 their eyes." By JoE cA,LvIT A parade was formed and Executlve Editor Killingsworth took the French flag on the For a l,ongview man, a return to right with the mayor and the American Normaurdy for D-Day anniversary llag on the left at the head o[ the observanccs will have special meaning. prrxession. People lining the street He will be going back to the village tossed tlowers, saluted and cried "Viva Le Amerique." where he was sheltered liom capture by When the fired a salute, hc the German army in 1944. Maquis +++++++++++++++++++++++ thought fbr a moment that he was being Ike K. Killingsworth flew to Paris Kiel Killingsworth set up to be turned ovcr to the Germans. last week for the P-47 Thunderbolt Pilots Ike died MaY 16,2OOl' Killingsworth, however, had no Association reunion and will go to the in San Diego, Calif. reason to worry. His presence was Omaha and Utah landing beaches ils guest ++++++++++++++++++++++ known only to the townspeople. At the of the French air force. A former fighter mayor's home he was treated royally. pilot, he flew from Ringwocxl, England, worth reported his predicament. [-ow Taken to the mayor's council room where in support of the Allied troop and glider cloud kept the rest of the flight from a large crorvd awaited, he consented to his landings on June 6,194/.. seeing his parachute, and consequently, parachute being cut into small pieces to His 9th Air Force tighter group flew they thought he had "gone in" with the be sold benefit ol'French prisoners of some 35 missions in preparation and planc, which explcxled and burned $'hen it lbr war. supporJ of the invasion, the largest crashed. miliary operation in history. But Killingsworth's parachute WHILE lN THE ROOM a man came The highlight of the trip back will be "opened beautifully" and he catne down in and said Krllingsworth was to be laken a return to the small towns of Allegny a small lield. Fifty-cal. ammunition in in to the Maquis headquarters in the next and Cosne, where he was taken by French the burning plane was popping like towir, Cosne. did not trust freedom fighters after being shot down on firercrackers. He could not sec the smoke Killingsworth the man and agreed to go only on Aug.27,l9l4. The area was under and flames, and he thorght the Germans the mayor and two other German control at the time. were shooting at him. Quickly, he hid condition that men accompa.ny him. Killingsworth, the first American to himsclf and thc chutc in a nearby an upstairs bedrcxrm at arrive at Allegny after the invasion, was heclgerow. He stayed in the mayor's home until 9 o'clock on the taken to the home of the mayor where he second night when he wa.s taken arvay by remained under'cover for a day and a half SOON SOME FRENCH people came armed men a car, Another before beginning his way back through into the field, spotted him and identified in small jt-ryous him Cosne. the lines. him as an American. Somc l0 minutes welcome awaited at later, members ot'the Maquis (French Assigned a room in a hotel, Killings- worth wir.s put under guard. THE CURRENT MAYOR ot . Underground) came dorvn a nearby road in midnight, he recalls, there was Allegny invited the l.ongview native to two vehicles -- one a small bread van. Ah)ut a knock on the door emd a man called return "to help the town celebrate" the They carried automatic weapons aurd whcn questioned 4oth anniversary of its liberation. they tanned out across the fietd, Daniel came inside. The man closely for a long time. Killingsworth is carrying letters o[ thanks Krllingsworth thought they were German Killingswsorth Assurcd that the Longview pilot was an to the mayor from l-ongview Mayor troops. French farmers, however, began Amcrican, he Killingswonh went to Mitch Henderson and Air Force Gen. W. to shout, "No, no monsieur, [r left. slecp. P. McBride for having protercted the flier. Amerique." "Daniel returned and asked if I was Killingworth, n,ho flew l(X) missions The Maquis tcnk Killingsworth to a ready to go back to our lines. I hdd acup against Hitler's "Fortress Europe," recalls fann house where a doctor examined a cut but wa-s not hungry enough ttt his WWII misfcrtune in a now-fading 4- across the right temple, gave him some ol'coffee he was laken eat anything. We got into an Airllow Page summary. wine and an aspirin. Then Chrysler with the top slid back. I sat in I*ading a flight of Thunderbolts, to Allegny where he was received by the the frc-rnt two anned men in the back Killingsworth was on a mission to cut mayor and the torl'nsPeoPle. with We a second car. It was also rail lines from Dijon back to the l,oire "These fine people placcd in m-v hands seat. met men, and we started," River. Af'ter the first drop of 5fi)-pound bouquets of llowers and greeted me with occupied by armed Kiili n gsworth recallcd. bombs, he went down to inspect the handshakes and embraces," Killingsworth "We traveled along a beautiful damage and his plane was hit by German recalled. "It was very impressive and they highway for awhile right alongside the fire. The propeller went out and he was were quite joyous. Some mothers [, -she{ in the summer communications with an account of by cle-tn-iks in serbia in rvw[. since flr"n, aaaitional by Robert I^ Wilson nf Don-io ni ^-^ ^G.ar-^ nrucrrry.rrr arr[len $noWn-provided in the gfOllp. photographer on Aug. 4, lg4H, on a hil s, Lawrence Norton and Robert Wilson were : Kllpatrick, 483rd Bomb Group. They went fnom a 449th Bomb Group B-24 crew that anyone downed in yugoslavia would be Refistance 1943-1944, by Kirk trord Jr., published in 1992 by.Texas A&M University press. Page 24 Fa17 2001 Llfe in Paris under the Nazis the guards shouting: 'I-ighton the fourth By MoNIQUE PITTS floof..." Chariottesvllle' Va. There Were po cars expect for doctors, (From Phne TaIk, Newsletter of grocery store keepers, and of course, Virginia ChaPter, 8th AFHS) various German military vehicles. We walked a lot, used bicycles a lot, the PART ONE subway (Metro), and faveled in crowded 194O, we lived'in Neuilly, west of In trains. Taxis were like in Asia, bicycle Paris, near the Bois de Boulogne, in an L- carts, we did not like to use them. We shaped group of buildings, most of which needed authorization to travel any were occupied. When my mother, distance. Our papers were checked often. grandmother, sister and I came back after We stuck tapes on the window panes the exodus in June-July, our apartment (in France the palres are wide) to prevent was occupied by the Germans, but when breakage during bombings, the usual one group left, my father, by then artw6rk was mere crosses but friends of demobilized, rushed to the town hall and ours had palm trees. declared his presence. We could then re- COMIC NOTE: The French general enter. and his wife living upstairs kept a hen There wa.s not too much damage. It and a romter for fresh eggs; he was a very was dirlry. My harmonica was stolen. elegant, aristocratic older gentleman and -We think that because of a book he was seen taking the hen on a leash in autographed by Udet, a German ace from Monique Pitts Bois de Boulogne. Neighbors complained WWI and a well-known figure in the an ail,ilress'at LangleY AFB in about the rooster waking them uP loo Third Reich, to a friend of his, and lent were all in green. later we saw different early in the morning. by this friend to my father, the a@rtmerlt colcirs; brown, black and grey for the was respected. nurses Parisians nicknamed 'the grey FOOI) The Germans probably believed that mice." the book was dedicated to my father! The There's a noise thqt will stay with me There was severe rationing, coupons strangest casudlty was a Farman wood forever; the sounds of boots +archine' for daily food (fat, meat, bread, milk, model they painted yellow (as French That noise is still in mY ears' We sugar). J2 (children), J3 (teenagers), planes had been ordered after the noticed that after the Liberation, when laborers got wine, J got milk. Armistice.) American trqbpb started to march through There was no coffee but instead The building's canteen was across our Paris, their step was almost silent. roasted barley, rationed tobacco (some landing, same floor. The Germans lined Occupation by an enemY Power is a tried smoking corn silk). Bread had to be up in the staircase at meal timp and would humiliating and honible experience. We eaten right away or became like wood. make loud comments as we passed them, never looked the Germans in the eye. I (Once on a pique nique in the Park, we so we avoided the front door and used the was told that the German population did pmled coupons and about six of us backdoor. the same alter 1945 under the Allies brought a fruit pie. The crust was so hard The music unit was in the next-door occupation until the Berlin Airlift. that we had to use a nail file to cut it, building, the headquarters with ranking My father took us, mY sister and I to pulling hard on the sides' officers in another one (the manager of see the German flag at the Place de la We ate a lot of rutabagas, but I never the buildings somehow convinced the Concorde. It was a giant banner flowing will eat them again. Beans, carrots' At officers that it was n€cessary to heat the down several siories on the Ministry of schml, every morning we received, whole complex in order to heat the Navy. He wanted us never to forget it. cooki€s with vitamins, actually quite building. Thanks to which we had heat Imagine a banner like this flowing down gmd. and hot water through the winters until the Capitol! In our building, because of the re4). canteen, food was stocked in the entrance German soldiers practiced the goose IN GENERAL hallway: crates oforanges, cheeses, etc, step in the Bois de Boulogne and we hid things we never could buY anY more. in the bushes to watch with great fun this All windows had to be covered with One day, coming back with mY mother seemily very difficult exercise. heavy curtains so that no light should and sister from the taking the dog to the FIR,ST IMPRESSIONS appear. The metal parts on cars were park, boxes of Camembert were Piled painted blue so a.s not to reflect light' No high. The dog sniffed. The first Ggrmans I saw looked like a lights in the streets', we cartied A German officer standing there group of monsters on motorcycles and flashlights. I remember the noise of flak looked at us, opened a box, peeled off the the whistles of side car, goggles, heavy raincoats. They falling on the pavement, paper and gave the cheese to the dog- We -Fa77 2001 Page 25 just went past him, with as much dignity it in the subway or on the train. My rFl . . . as we could, en0ered the apartment and matemal grandmother living in Toulon once inside, let our puzzfed dog have the qune to live with us. She had lost a lot r lgers whole cheese, Jom of weight, was starving on the Riviera. There were lines for food everywhere. The Vichy government had stopped The black market prevepted people from transportation of goods from one region in marking starving because the rations were to the next. Great quantities of food were insufllcient. Another way to have food sent to Germany. wa.s going to the country and bringing Coming in the next issue: annlversary back a suitcase full of meat but there PART TWO From The Associated Prc$ always was a danger of being paught with EVERYDAY LIFE - Sept. 7, 2001 * * * * * * * * * {< * * * * {. BEIJINC .- were the of * * * * * * * * * * {< * * * {< t * * * * * * * * * * :rc * * * * * They model U.S.-Chinese friendship -- the Flying Tigers, young American pilots who fought for China in World War II. ESCAPE! This week, three of the legendary fliers are back to mark the 60th (written(Written r anniversary by Fl!. t. Gordon Brettell, RAF, whase address at the time of their ragtag volunieer ) v. vog Hartm4nnstlorf,L^w, .rrwrrf DuurJ, fdrce, telling war stories at a govemment- y#."T!:,9l1l1i' ,Gross Saxony,oalJeut G",ioiy, tn ipiit 1943,>+r, whilewnttre hene was inm prisonfollowingpr,tson recapture sponsored conference and meeting Jollowing -recaptyre afrer escaping from a Pow camp. He wai then ient to stdlap tuft III h"- iniii hp tnnk Chinese veterans in an air of nostalgic camaradie. The evocation of wartime solidarity could hardly be better timed for Chinese leaders, or its warmttr more welcome. Alter months of tension with Washinglon oyer a surveillance-plane collision, the jailing of scholars and other conflicts, Beijing is eager for a friendlier tone and an upbeat visit in October by hesident Bush. "I felt the Chinese have been our friends all these years. I ha&e to see the antagonism we've been going through," said Bob "Catfish" Raine of Fallon, Nev., an E3-year-old former Flying Tiger credited with shooting down four Japanese fighters. This week marks lhp anniversary of the Tigers' debut in September lg{1. The pilots were U.S. military men, many fresh from training, sent in secret by President Franklin D. Roosevelt before the United States entered the war. Theyjoined an air force organized for China by Claire Lee Chennault" The Flying Tigers had fewer rhan 100 pilots and 55 planes. AM they flew for only nine months, until Pearl Flarbor and American entry into the war. U.S. forces anived in China in May t942and absorbed the unit. ' The 14 surviving Tiger pilots belong to the Sino-American Aviation Herigge Foundation in West Hollywood, Calif. The group is raising money for the recovery of a Flying Tiger Curtis p*4O --"ourtesy which crashed in southwestern China, of R. M. Horsley, Eagle Heights, eueensland n killing the pilot. Page 26 Fa77 2007 Iicrc'deike $try,rye'-'n -"ffi"\?ffbnn& -ll t*i Ll T=''I\-t "Hey Sorge, recruit McCoy rep,orting for 'Thot's whol you soid, sir - cut the budget duty. Whot's first on the ogendo." but not enough lhot it hurts." 'rseoled orders on the locotion of your "Keep your eye on thot guY, Cioude - | pets, but he new ossignmenl, Horgrove - don't told him no bringing bock open till you get there." might try to sneok it oboord onywoy.'' --NRI\IAN Nlagazine Fa77 2001 Page 27 Glen hid first in a rain barrel From the Flying Fortress meal, they took him to a place named Newsletter, March 2001 Palace Villa, where a group of escapees Glen McCabe was flying co-pilot on was being collected. Dec. 28, 1943, when the 381st Bomb With a beret on his head, Glen was Group attacked the ball-bearing factory at moved to Toulouse, disguised as a Polish Ludwigshafen, Germany. The plant had recruit for the Germzrny army. There he been hit by the 8th Air Force six months met Geno Bola, and Gabriel "Gabby" Nahas of the before, but had been moved into the French Maquis, whose Glen basement and was still operating. girlfriend lel them across Toulouse, As the B-17 turned for the bomb run, s-tanding on the steps of a trolley. Messerschmitt 109 fighters struck. The later he learned she was arrested by cockpit was without protection from the the Germans, and when she was late for freezing wind roaring through the open roll call a few days later, the Germans nose. Two engines and the intercom were tumed guard dogs on her and killed her shot out. just a few days before the area was It was time to jump. liberated by Allied forces. mountains, could they move by day. Glen landed in a farmer's brussel Glen was taken by train to the Three men in the group had to be sprout patch near Aucamville, France, furenees Mountains by a southem route, carried over the pass at the summit. The After hiding his parachute, he climbed although at the station German troops and elevation near Andorra wa.s into arrain barrel to hide from the a non-com were nearby, being served about 14,000 feet. Germans. doughnuts. The guides the group Many of the other crew rnembers Two members of Glen's crew were left at the top and the Americans stuck landed mfely, but gathered together and among the group led by Basque guides. logether. They were soon captured.. They were Engineer Russell Jevons and hadn't eaten for three days and in a small village, they were given dried Glen was found by a farmer and turned Joe Baleah. All the travel was by night. figs, which was all the villagers had. over to the French Underground. After a Only when they were degp in'the With about a half dozen in their group, in the first sizeable village, they got in touch with the Spanish consulate. They were put on a train for Larido, Spain, and were given clothes, gabardine coats and cardboard shoes. The train trip witlt Spanish guards in three-cornered hats, took two days. Then it was on to7-aragoza for two days before another train ride to Ndadrid, where they changed trains for Gibraltar. Only four of the party remained when they were flown back to England, where Glen found his personal effects had been kept separate. There, Glen packed for his tiip home. When his plane landed in the U.S., he got 30 days leave and went home t attend AFEES reunions are Ross ltnd Peggy Wiens of were asked about people who sheltered . Edmonton, Alb. Here they are shown wiih AFEES them and helped them escape and evade Director Yvonne Daley (c:enter) of Tampa, Flo. capture by the Germans, Page 28 FaIL 2001 Doolittle raiders: 'Lower the boom' Veterans of raid on Japan urge strike on telrorists (From The State, Columbia' S.C. Sunday, Sept 15' 2001) COLI.JMBIA,d- S.C. -- When the JaoanJapanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. bY sendine 16 B-25s to took off thipitching deck litary first. Today, the raid say the United on New York and imaeination. uWe should lower the boom, that's for sure." said Horace "Sally" Crouch of Columbia, a navigator- bombardier iir the raid. "And we should fight to AFEES Member Bob l(elley lighte the win." *Dick" Eternal Flame in Grand'Failly' France on Richard E. Cole of Comfort, Teias, was his vislt to the area lsst summcr' Gen. Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot in the raid. He said --Photo bY Wilf James Pearl Harbor galvanized the country. But Mr. C61e,86, said the country's outrage over 'l'uesday,odqw' t' -tnd than the Bob makes visit No-7 Tillii=reaction Robe urned oPle watched last slnt said. "People learned the havoc and pai,n that w Hiwrites: The raiders all volunteered t-or the Apnl tvqz nnd on Jaoan. The strike was considered a suicide mission, o and manyrianv of the.80 fliets did not rcturn, includingE Bastogne were buried along with my tail gunner, SSgt Richard Doyle, who was killed the day we went down,5 Sept.1914. The cemetery existed froml944to 1948, when the deceased were moved eitherto St. Avold orto their hometowns in the U.S. All thatwasleftwasthe Etemal Flame andthe marble entrance with three flagpoles. The rnayor of ' whichincluded the immediate nation's morale. . At the city hall task, but we don't stal with know who," he said inthe "We need to tet ihe world know that anybody who Jeep in harbors these people should tum them over l9A4whetthe area was liberated. immeCiately o? w'e're coming after them," he said' Fa77 2001 Page 29 The Pledge of Allegiance How did we get the Pledge of Altegiance? Who actually wrote the Pledge? At the time the Pledge of Allegiance was The Pledge of Allegiance first appeared in print in written. Francis Bellamy and James B. Upham the September 8, 1892 issue of The Yourh's were on the staff of The Youth's Companion. Companion: "t Pledge allegiance to my flag and Both families claimed authorship of the the Republic to which it stands one Nation. - Pledge. After vears of controversy. the U,S. indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The Flag Association appointed a committee in pledge was inaugurared on October 21. 1892 at the 1939 to resolve the authorship question. The dedication of the World's Fairgrounds in Chicago unanimous decision favored Francis Bellamy. and was adopted nationally as a part of flag-raising The ar_eument continued until the Library of ceremonies at patriotic meetings. and recited by Congress concluded that "the Bellam_v- claim school children across the country. to authorship rests upon the more solid ground." When were the words "Under God" added? Can you name the states that require the The wording was changed several times. For Pledge to be recited in the schools? example, the first National Flag Conference in Twenty four states have passed laws either Washington on June 14-15, 1923. changed the allowing or requirin_e school districts to offer words "my flag" to The Fldg of the United States voluntary recitation of the Pledge. They are of America. Also. On June l-1. 195.1. president AL, AZ. CA. DE. FL. GA. ID. IL. KS. KY, Eisenhower signed into law a bill passed by LA. MD, MA, tvIS. NH. NJ, NM. NY. ND. Congress that added the words "under God" so as oH. RI. WA. WV. WI. to read "one Nation under God." This resulted in some controversy and debate over the principle of Soutces 'Our ' separation of church and state. Although reviewed Braver._Elizrbeth \losr Quored {lumnus Rtrclierter Rerreu Spnng 1988: U-l-5 by the New York State Supreme Court. the jirstice Kellv. Dennls. "Our Prtriouc Vanrru lirr lfl) Ycas " USA T*lav S refused to remove "under Sco. l9)1. from the bill the words Pecrlmuuer. Ellen M. 'Pledge ol Allesltnce Dares Back ro ltig:. ' God." Pittsbursh Posr-Cazirre l6 June 1994 BunJ'eld. Jettrey S 'l Pledge Allegrunce" V.F.W. VaElzrne June t976 l{-t5. FalT 200J Page 30 Dorie Shoss Services for Dorie Shoss' daughter ot TFOtDED WING$r AFEES Director David Shoss and the late conducted Aug. 7' . ! MEMBERS Doris Shoss, were 2001; in Datlas, Tex. Ms. Shoss,47, died Aug. 5 in a Dallas hospital of lung H. Philip'Causer,'Ias Cruces, NM,356 FG, June 20Ol #nn cancer, At age 18, Ms. Shoss was found to William L. Hollowry Covington, LA, 4Y BG,.June 5, 2001 15AF have Hodgkin's disease. She survived but the disease returned a few years later' She O. Stenkpr Jr., Naples, FL, 306 BG, July 9' 2001 #18S William stayed cancer-free udtil age 46' when lung cancer developed as a result of her #1510 John B. Wood, Eldorado Hills, CA,489 BG, June 6,2001 Hodgin's disease treatment. singer and xmgwriter of HELPERS She was lead the Dallas rock band The Grip, which she formed after singing fm various local M. Pierre SIBIRIL, Plouha; Ftance, ?A Artg.2OOl band.s. her husband, CANADIAN FRIENDS Other survivors include Michael t amPton of Dallas, three stepchildren and two sisters. John Gouinlock, Don Mills, Ont., XXXXXXXXXXX Medal recognizes Korean War vets By JUDY GR,OJEAN Changes for the 2001 roster Air Force Personnel Center' - (Changes are in BOLDFACE tYPe.) Public Aflairs RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Tex. -- Mailing almost 6'0O medals per Davls Blvd., Apt' 5114, no1t-h Rlchland 1. HarryAckerman,t0(D day, the Air Force Personnel Center's ?6180'1937; Ph' t17'849't092 Hllls, TX special war-medal action team here knows George woods Baker, IN-TREPIDUS (New phone and Fax number): 2. there are more than 1.7 million veterans Ph.310.453.4E00;Fax310"453.4t01(Nochangeinad&ess) etigible for the Korean War Service Box tS2S4, Tucson, A7' t5754'5254 still 3. WilliamE.Bendt'L",PO Medal, including the next of kin of 4.CharlesW.Blakley,g253KlngrgateCt',Boise,ID837045599; deceasedveterans. Same Phone, 2G?77-4126 The Department of Defense approved P. Dunaway'U', 3501 W' 95th St', Apt' 328' 5. Kenneth the acceptanc€ and wear of the medal on KS 56206'2059; Ph' 9t3'642'3124 Shewnee Mlselon, Aug.20, 1999. 4601 Gray View ct" #106 c' 6. Ms. Teddy K' Goodting'lF', Since then, AFPC officials have 33609; Ph' 813'6t9'1115 TamPa, FL distributed more than 83,000 Korean War VYegtcrn Ave., Wtllowbrook, IL 60527' 7. RobertE.Hede "L:,'i;6E25 Service med:ils to veterans from every 1E?6; Ph: 636-654'rt67 st., camarlllol cA, branch of miliary service. 8. L/Col. Donovan B. Manifold "F"2zz'Farnsworth To qualify for the medal, the veteran E05'388-1321 93010; Ph. must meet the following criteria: *L'',2OG} Camlnlto Clrculo Sur', La Jolla' CA 9. FrederickT. Marston -- Served in Korea, its tenitorial 92037 -7214 watrers or airspace between June 25, l95O Spyglass ct., San Juan Capistrano, cA 10. Marie A. Mcconnell "w", t2471 and July 27, L953 for 30 consecutive days A4Ol7 h. It|9-2&2490 l2fl i or 60 non-consecutive daYs; or Outer Rd., 3'9772 N. -- Served as a crew member of aircraft 3, #1ll-146 Av Alberta, in aerial flight over Korea participating in 403.873'1353 < om> actual combat operations, or in support of N. 1939G' ,2E4 GuernseY combat oPerations. 6lUf359-2W l02E;, Wife, Anna;h' Information on how to aPPIY for the Kentucky Ave', Pittsburgh' PA 1520G 14. Manuel M. Rogoff "D',6411 medal can be found by calling the Air 4429 Center, weekdays atEfiI' uV',215 Rd., Los Pslmas #130' Mcsa' Force Personnel 15. RayL.Whitby N. Power or 2IO-56*?-432. Or write to <$llRaynogas@aol'com) 558-14et, AZ 35205; Ph. 480'396'6065; 550 C Street West" NW lst Avc., Pompano Bcach, FL HQ AFPC/DPPPRA, 16. Jarhes S. Wilschke.L",293l Ste. 12, Randolph AFB, TX 181fi4714' 33064-3800 Fall 2o0J paqe 31 Lt. seddon ferried agents, rescued. airmen From the London Daily Telegraph^-.-6'-'." N;.-3i,-il8 on.Bonaparte B**.* Plouha in St. ,i Brieuc Bay. The officer in charge the Lieutenanr Ronnie Sedjon RNVR, !g.Z of 718's 1sr Lt' Guy who has died aged 80, won rhe DSC as * L"Ilft 11s,t'9s,gsuat, an*---ri-^ r r^.^_r^_- r_ "'wq* Hamilto. (later the directof of the earliest commanding officer^rr:^^- of^r Motor Torpedo !-t ::-':' Boat7ls, serving uncler the--'- Deputy 1 - -r--r 'Tj::l,*qgtHamilton and two sailors Director Operations Division W landed the (Inegular) rar,- -^r^r,, L..+ r^._rr-. _r;^ ^_r ^ ;il; d; M;;;, c""'*l '** a{aurtv^ radio.and a :, 1TI,:"r?Il*dragging MTB anchor caused them ro Based at Darmouth, the 15th".,:oli".' was a : _:^^ , to 1L_:_ _--r--_. .miSS,'l 18 nn^_ .tlra'ir ratrrm A t.r6- ^ clandestine unit that operated during ^_; aching, moonless periuls to land and pick up sts ;,:,, 3 ffitfi and SOE --c---'-,agents, escaped ^::;_1:.POWs and Alliedservicepersonnel--mainlydownedpA.;.i^-^^-'^rr.''-l,-^-_._-, Luckily, they conr,acted the local ;;"; :i;;'r;;;,,'#;;*;; Resishnce qropn ang were returned to Danmouth four weeks later. as--- "pin-points"r"' along the coast of 718 northem France and, in 718,s carse, jltl::,:tll T*,:.*:,ions,in september N;;t. ;lnea-o1t"{ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Have you moved? New Area code? New zrP? AF'EES lur,o;nts to keep trorck of Uou! Please comDlete and clip or cop_y this form tb remit dues or to report changes (Dues are $2O per year. Llfe Membershlp is $lOO. Make checks payable to AFEES) Send checks and changes to Cla5rton C. Davld, Membershlp Chalr, 19 Oak Rrdge Pond, Hannlbal, MO 63401-6539. U.S.A. Name Amount Included Mailhg Address Clty and State ZTP Phone: (_) E-Mall (Optional) Comments Page 32 Fa71 2001 The editor has the last word By LARRY GRAUERHOLZ With a change of address notice, John Neal of Calgary assures us that friends north of the border are with us. John reflects the mood of many of us: "l wish I was young enough to Cake part, but all the recruiters would say to me is, 'Put some Metamucil in your Musket and benefis are available. stand by!' " I may as well admit that I made a Write to the organization at: National mistake last issue. In listing new Headquarters, 32Ol E. Pioneer Pkwy. A lentative schedule for the2ffi2 members, the typesetter (that's me) #4O, Arlington, TX 76010 or call 817- AFEES reunion in Tampa is included in misspelled the name of Col. ZigZieglet &9-2n9. this issue. (See Page 4). Sorry. Second mistake of my life; don't It has been suggested that we include ask what the first one was. THANKS to all you good friends who a post-reunion bus tour to Orlando to sent words of support after my wife Ruth visit Disneyworld and Epcot Center. If If you were,a POW and do not belong had open heart surgery in June. I am you are interested in such a three-day, two n the American Ex-Prisoners of War pleased to report that she is now in a night excursion to follow the reunion, organization, it will benefit you and your rehabilitation program and is making let President Dick Smith know. spouse to investigate and learn what progress every day! FTom AFEES PUBLISHING 19 Oak Ridge Pond NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION HANNIBAI., MO 6340 l-6539 U. S. POSTAGE PAID U.S.A. WICHITA FALLS TX Permit lfo. 16 ChanEe Service Requested nwr' trLn Mrs Mary K' Akins 862 Evergreen Hemet CA 92543