Page 2 385th BGMA NEWSLETTER June 1990 Il New Members TREASURER'S REPORT 12-31-88 12-31-89 David M Cates Balance Sheet James M Kenan John M.Povey ASSETS Rial 0. Purnell CD'S 12,000.00 8,000.00 Rudolph L. Vapor Checking Account 7,634.36 11,370.97 Group History 200.00 0.00 William N. Whitehead Total Assets Tff,834."3S T37370T97 (1) Robert R. Walton (17,015.97) Robert B. Click Ronald J. Webster Profit and Loss Statement INCOME Editor's Note: Where have you been all these years? Drop Dues and Donations 7,285.00 7,897. 83 us a line telling what you've done, how you happened to Life Members 1,300.00 3, 800. 00 (2) hear about us, anything else that will make a future Hardlife Interest 1,292.24 1,186.90 Group History Sales 1,080.21 200. 00 more interesting! Video Sales 57.00 126.00 Total Income 11,014.45 13,210.73 Expenses Newsletter 7,734.71 7,631.56 President 0.00 207.15 Secretary 67.66 29. 09 Treasurer 93. 50 148. 50 Other Reunions You Might Want to Great Ashfield Church 0.00 1,122. 50 Get In On. Great Ashfield Trust Fund 1,807.30 1.763. 98 Sally B 0.00 962.16 Reunion (loss) 0.00 1,809.18 (3) Trust Fund 0.00 2, 355.00 The 16th Annual 8th Air Force Historical Society Sept. 30 - Reunion Advance 2,464.87 0. 00 Oct. 4 in Las Vegas. For further information, or if you want to Total Expenses 12,168.04 16,029.12 join that organization, call Bob Nolan 1 -800-833-1942. Net Gain or Loss (1,153.59) (2,818.39) Respectfully submitted The 94th Bomb Group Assn will be going to Rougham England Sept. 12-21,1990. The cost if $825 per person plus John F. Pettenger, Treas. air fare. For further information, write Tamarac Travel, Tamarac FL 33319-2897, or call 1 -800-228-9690. Note 1 December 1989 Bank Statement included Trust Fund Note 2 Includes $1000.00 Donation by Gene Silberberg Note 3 Don't PANIC-Half our assets are Reunion Surpluses 385th BGMA APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP Please Print LAST NAME, First, Ml. Spouse's Name Street or P.O. Box # . ( : Telephone Number City, State, & Zip Code Squadron or Support Unit The annual dues are Eight Dollars ($8.00) POW Capture Data Life-time memberships are one payment of $100.00 Date Make out check to "385th BGMA" and mail to: Place John F. Pettenger, Treas. Stalag Unit Box 117 Laurel, FL 34272-0117 Life-time memberships are used to perpetuate the memorial at All Saints Church in Great Ashfield, Suffolk County, England. June 1990 385th BGMA NEWSLETTER Page 3 385TH BGMA LIFE MEMBERS AS OF 5-20-90 Gorden E. Akley Russell W. Fritzinger John J. Logan Paul W. Ryan Totton J. Anderson Francis R. Fuller Reid H. Lowe George H. Salkeld John A. Anderson Ira W. Fugua Sam P. Luckie George Salvador Robert L. Arn Michael R. Gallagher Samuel E. Lyke Joseph S. Schneider Frank L. Bachman Norman W. Gaul William E. Lyke Harold Schrotter Robert R. Baldwin Jack T. Cesser Sol Mann Walter B. Schulte Edgar G. Baugh Harold Gilbert Louis Massari Willard Shankle Albert V. Baumann Wes Cildner Dr. Vincent W. Masters Gene Silberberg Ashley R. Bean C.L. Ginn Charles McCauley George Sipes George J. Behl Norman R. Goldman Frank X. McCawley Ralph Smith Ernest W. Bemis Joseph Gorchak Col. James G. McDonald Robert C. Smith A.L. Benefield, Jr. William C. Gregg, Jr. Henry A. McMicking Charles C. Smith Robert E. Bennett Charles Grinder Phyllis McNichols Robert H. Starkel Harry H. Berges Gene P. Hackney John P. McPartlin Cerald Steil John C. Birrell Mrs. Gene P. Hackney William D. Miller Theodore J. Stell Wesley C. Brashear Thomas L. Hair James M. Miller Arnold Stenrose Harry H. Bridges Donald P. Hale Margaret Miller Edward J. Stermer Elvah Brown Carlyle J. Hanson Richard M. Miller Edward R. Stern Chester E. Brownlee, Jr. Carter Hart, Jr. Robert S. Milligan John. S. Stevens Dr. Harold Bushey Robert G. Harvey Frank Moll Rachel E. Stipe C. Russell Byers William L. Hausman Harry Monfort Clarence L. Strout Theodore V. Carlson Lyman B. Heard Harold T. Morthorst Jack E. Surritt Warren Cerrone Mrs. Fred Heiser Jerome H. Mudge Frank M Sutter Gilbert Chandler Thomas A. Helman Robert Myers Shirley Tedford Allen B. Chealander Vivian S. Herron Luther P. Newcomer William M. Tesla Harold D. Cleary Charles H. Hill, Jr. William A. Nicholls Kenneth IL. Torrance Earl L. Cole John D. Hite Ronald C. Nolan Raymond B. Tucker Sidney E. Colthorpe Cheryl Jean Horn J.S. Nunnelee Willis E. Tulare Phillip I. Cook Pat N. Howard John O'Donnell Eugene J. Vaadi John W. Cookson Homer Howe Brian Wm. Oakley Robert A. Vallierre Lowell E. Cooper Frank Hoyle David L. Oakley Gerald W. Van Loenen Alphonse J. Corriveau Arkey M. Huber Alfred A. Oldfather Frank B. Walls Roy E. Courtney Charles F. Hughes Robert Payne Vincent G. Walzberg Charles C. Cox William L. Hunter Harry E. Peltzer Ruel G. Weikert Mrs. Clarence Cragoe Don Hunter Matthew F. Peters Robert H. Weixler Frank B. Crawford, Jr, MD Mrs. May Iverson John F. Pettenger Arthur Wiegand Rudy J. Cunat Robert E. Jewell Russell Pfau James. T. Williams Charles Custer William R. Jones Verne D. J. Philips Mrs. James T. Williams R. Bud Davis J. Richard Jones Edwin F. Pollock Robert W. Wilson John Deberg Homer L. Jones Forrest V. Poore T.C. Winton Stanley F. Dentinger Joe Frank Jones, Jr. Mrs. Gladys I. Purkiss Harry E. Woltman David Dennis Henry I. Jones, Jr. Jack Pullio Clifford N. Woodley Dr. William E. Dickison George Y. Jumper Rayburn G. Pyle James Q. Yawn Warren B. Diederich Bernard S. Kananowicz Otho J. Quick Jim Young Daniel H. Dolan Thomas Kavanagh Norman Radin Wayne C. Zeigler Mrs. Marge Dorney John H. Kelley Floyd Reinken Howard J. Zorn Robert E. Douglas Albert A. Kent Howard T. Rembert J.H. Dunlap Donald Klosterman Howard Richardson Charles Edelstein Robert A. Knight John E. Richey James H. Emmons Leo LaCasse John Richmond Edward E. Faroe O.V. Lancaster Raymond Rivard Clarence Fauber, Jr. Milton V. Lane Smith J. Roland Mrs. Chmmlele Ford Robert E. Lee Clark B. Rollins Jr. Mrs. John C. Ford Chester A. Lisiewski William J. Roop David Framer Harry W. Livingston, Jr. Orville B. Ross If you're not on this list and should be, please write to Treasurer John Pettinger and either send him $100.00 or remind him that you did. Page 4 385th BGMA NEWSLETTER June 1990 Dear Mr. Stern, Editors Note: Here is a few newspaper articles from our tacal area about As Eileen says in her letter, the Memphis Belle wasn't one of the new film the Memphis Belle. Now I know she wasn't "ours”. one of our's (I say ours because I lived at Great-Ashfield from 1942 till 1950 so I remember quite a few American only It's a movie we'll all probably see, and you probably saw a none of them seem to be in your association still. Hope you couple of segments in the Today Show in December telling like reading about this little episode here in England. It has about the making of the film. our Sally B in it too and as a member I know you all support her too... We lived on the Airfield when I was just a child (6 These stories from the British papers of July 1989 should to 8 yrs) but I had free range almost anywhere on the airfield have lots of interest for all of us. and the guy's were just great to me - chewing gum, ice­ cream. We were never short of sweets for the aircrews who lived round the bottom of our garden used to check the wax car­ tons of flying rations over the hedge after every flight. They went down a bomb at school during the sweet rationing I can tell you. Binbrook Belle! And now could you ask is the magazines if anyone remem­ It was the day that all the aircraft enthusiasts had been bers Homotka and Lubriski. I dont know if I have spelt them waiting for — the arrival of five Bl 7 Flying Fortress bombers right but neither of them are in the Memorial book, not on to RAF Binbrook for the filming of the multi-million dollar the Wall of Remembrence that was listed in the newsletter. wartime epic Memphis Belle. The pictures on these pages Mum and Gran did washing (laundry) for quite a few aircrew form a unique record of their arrival at the base. and ground men and Homotka was separated for a flight from Lubriski (as they usually flew together) and he told us that Homotka went down. He was so upset at the time he kept on saying that they should have been together. Within a short time later Lubriski also went down and we were never told anything more except that someone else collec­ ted his laundry. If they did not survive the war, it seems so unfair that their names are not recorded. Is it possible that they could have survived do you think? Also have included a map in pieces of airfield - can you please pinpoint which squadrons were at the back of our garden and also where the others were? As a fourteen year old here in Grimsly 1951 I got laughed out of the-house because I went to the cinema and said I'd seen one of our Bomber Badges from Ashfield and I've had to wait till 1st year to read about that jacket being meant for Ken Fobey for the part in (The Thing) and I can now brag I was right, NOBODY LISTENS though the kids think I'm mad.