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Box 627, Ipswich, MA 01938 Vol. 32, No. 4 Winter 1993 Treasurer E (BILL) NOTHSTEIN 40 Meadow Drive, Spencerport, NY 14559 Secretary and Director of Administrative Services DAVID G. PATTERSON Table of Contents 28 Squire Court, Alamo, CA 94507 2ADA Representative Board of Governors E (BUD) KOORNDYK President's Message 458th 5184 N. Quail Crest Dr.. Grand Rapids, MI 49546 Bomb Group JOHN B. CONRAD 3 RICK ROKICKI 16 GROUP VICE PRESIDENTS Vice President's Message 466th Bomb Group Headquarters RAY STRONG FLOYD H. MABEE 3 BILL NOTHSTEIN 9 320 Burlage Circle, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Vice President Elect's Observations 467th Poop from Group 44th BG H C (PETE) HENRY CHUCK WALKER 4 164B Portland Lane, Jamesburg, NJ 08831 RALPH ELLIOTT 15 93rd BG PAUL STEICHEN Report on the Memorial Trust 489th Bomb Group 2227A Ruhland Dr., Redondo Beach, CA 90278-2401 E. BUD KOORNDYK 4 NEAL SORENSEN 10 389th BG GENE HARTLEY 1993 Financial Report 3950 Via Real #233, Carpinteria, CA 93013 491st Ringmaster Reports DEAN E. MOYER 5 392nd BG OAK MACKEY HAP CHANDLER 12 6406 East Presidio Street, Mesa, AZ 85205 Your Heritage League 492nd Happy Warrior Happenings BILLY SHEELY JOHNSON 445th BG RAY R. PYTEL 7 W.H."BILL" BEASLEY Box 484, Elkhorn, WI 53121 8 The Friends of the 2AD Memorial 446th BG MARVIN SPEIDEL 708 Dianne Court, Rahway, NJ 07065 JORDAN R. UTTAL 8 ARTICLES & POEMS 448th BG CATER LEE The 46th Annual Convention of 2ADA Bail Out! P.O. Box 850, Foley, AL 36536 JORDAN R. UTTAL 17 RICHARD HOFFMAN 6 453rd BG WILBUR CLINGAN 8729 Samoline, Downey, CA 90240 47th Annual Convention Information Salzburg Mission: 21 April 1945 EVELYN COHEN 458th BG E A ROKICKI 35 GENE SALTARELLI 9 365 Mae Rd., Glen Burnie, MD 21061 Folded Wings 14 One Mystery Solved 466th BG EARL WASSOM THOMAS V. OVERTURF 548 Brentwood Dr., Bowling Green, KY 42101-3772 Letters 31 11 467th BG RALPH ELLIOTT The Eighth's End-of-War Grand Tour 6000 Rafter Circle, Tucson, AZ 85713-4365 GROUP REPORTS ROBERT C. SELLERS 11 489th BG NEAL SORENSEN Division Headquarters Another 132 Peninsula Road, Medicine Lake, MN 55441 One of Those Afternoon Raids RAY STRONG 25 JOHN FOSTER & BILL OLMSTED 491st BG F C (HAP)CHANDLER 13 18 Willow Glen, Atlanta, GA 30342 44th News Jack's "Perfect Landing" H.C."PETE" HENRY 29 492nd BG W H (BILL) BEASLEY RAY PYTEL 13 1525 South Garfield St., Denver, 00 80210-3022 Open Letter to the 93rd "Fire!" PAUL STEICHEN 28 HERITAGE LEAGUE JAMES E. STRAUB 15 389th Green Dragon Flares President BILLY SHEELY JOHNSON 12th 600 Sandhurst Drive, Petersburg, VA 23805 GENE HARTLEY 21 Annual 2ADA Golf Tournament PETE HENRY 20 JOURNAL 392nd Bomb Group OAK MACKEY Eagles On High Editor 10 WILLIAM G. ROBERTIE PATRICK P.O. Box 627, Ipswich, MA 01938 The 445th Reporting O'DONOGHUE 21 CHUCK WALKER 22 The Amazing Major Gladych 2nd AIR DIVISION MEMORIAL ROOM RAY WARD 24 Librarian PHYLLIS DUBOIS 446th Bungay Bull do Norwich Central Library MARVIN SPEIDEL 30 The Tragic Bombing of Mortsel, Bethel St., Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1NJ, England The 448th Speaks Belgium, 5 April 1943 CATER LEE 23 JIM O'BRIEN 26 MEMORIAL BOARD OF GOVERNORS THOMAS C. EATON, Chairman 453rd Flame Leap Mission Attempted 3 Upper King Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1RL England WILBUR CLINGAN 23 JAMES B. McCLOSKEY 27 DAVID J. HASTINGS, Vice Chairman "Westering," Salhouse, Norwich, Norfolk, NR13 6RO, England MRS. MICHAEL BARNE Crowfoots, Sotterley, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 TTZ, England MRS. FRANCES DAVIES 57 Church Lane, Eaton, Norwich NR4 6NY, England ROGER A. FREEMAN May's Barn, Dedham, Nr. Colchester Essex, England C07 6EW FRANK W. GADBOIS THE SECOND AIR DIVISION ASSOCIATION traces its initial meeting to 1948 in Chicago, Illinois. It was organized as Dept. of the A.F. a nonprofit corporation in the State of Illinois on January 10, 1950. Members of the original Board of Directors were RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, England Second Air Division veterans Marilynn Fritz, Howard W. Moore, Jordan R. Uttal and Percy C. Young. The association's EDWARD 0. INMAN purpose is to advocate and support an adequate, effective and efficient Army, Navy and Air Force at all times; to Director of Duxford Imperial War Museum perpetuate the friendships and memories of service together in the Second Air Division, 8th Air Force in England during Duxford Airfield, Cambridge CB2 40R, England World War II; to support financially, and in any other way, the Memorial Trust of the 2nd Air Division represented by ALFRED A. JENNER as 15 Ransom Rd., Norwich, Norfolk NR1 4AJ, England the 2nd Air Division Memorial Room of the Norwich Central Library; and to undertake such other activities as may from time to PAUL R. KING time be deemed appropriate by the membership. Noverre House, Norwich NR2 1RH, England REGULAR (Voting) MEMBERSHIP in the association is limited to E.(BUD) KOORNDYK those personnel, military and civilian, American or 5184 N. Quail Crest Dr., Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA British, who at any time served with the Headquarters organization of the 2nd Bomb Wing, 2nd Bomb Division or 2nd Air EDWARD C. McBRIDE Division during World War II and any person who served with any bomb group or fighter group or any other unit of the 24 Grosvenor Sq., London, WIA IAE, England Second Air Division assigned or attached. Provisions are also made for Associate (Non-Voting) memberships. PROFESSOR HOWARD TEMPERLEY School of English and American Studies Address all JOURNAL-related communications to: University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 77J, England Second Air Division Association, P.O. Box 627, Ipswich, MA 01938 • Tel. (508) 356-5470 LT. COL. W.D. WUEST 14 St. Andrews Close, Hingham, Norfolk NR9 4JT, England Please submit material for publication to the editor by the 15th of January, April, July or October. 2 President's Message As You Read Your Journal by John B. Conrad Now entering its 46th year, this Association has elected Your Group Report thirty-seven members to serve as president. Nine of these The page to which most of us automati- have served two terms each, beginning with Raymond E. cally turn. Our Group VPs do a great job. Strong (HQ), Percy C. Young (HQ), and Stephen Posner (445th) in the 1950s. Young's and Posner's terms as presi- The 46th Annual Convention of dent were separated with others being elected in between, Second Air Division Association ... 17 as were the two terms of Jordan Uttal (HQ), one in the Once again, 1950s and the other in the 1960s. our Second Air Division Also in the 1960s, Warren Alberts (HQ/93rd) served veterans and their families came away two consecutive terms, as did John Jacobowitz (466th). from another great reunion with a feeling In the 1970s, William Robertie (44th) served two consecutive terms. of renewed warmth, affection, and respect For nearly twenty years thereafter, our presidents served one term each, following the for those with whom they had the oppor- established practice of the previously elected executive vice president being nominated and tunity to mingle. elected to the presidency. This accepted practice held until Richard M. Kennedy, my im- mediate predecessor, served as president in 1990/1991 and was reelected for 1991/1992. Bail Out 6 Having served as executive vice president during President Kennedy's second term, you Did you ever wonder what it is like to jump followed the established custom and elected me as president for the just completed out of an airplane and depend on a para- 1992/1993 term. You have now reelected me to serve a second term for 1993/1994. I am chute to save your life? Richard Hoffman most appreciative of the honor. was the ball turret gunner on the William Why didn't the executive vice presidents succeed President Kennedy at the end of his first Nicholson crew at Wendling, shot down term or me at the end of my first term just completed? Is the custom of executive vice Nov. 5, 1943 on a mission to Munster presidents being elected to succeed the retiring presidents being discarded for some valid reason? Absolutely not. It is certainly appropriate for the person serving as executive vice The Tragic Bombing of Mortsel, president to be groomed in that position to fill the office of president. Unfortunately, it is a matter of health that restricted further service to the Association at Belgium,5 April 1943 26 the time by the executive vice presidents who were otherwise expected to succeed President It was sad to have such devastation and suf- Kennedy at the end of his first term or to succeed me at this time. And it is also a matter of fering on a beautiful spring day in 1943. It is age and health that ended the services of another valuable officer of this Association.
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