I also appreciate the copies of the material on the "wheels down" story from Martin Middlebrooks' book. I still want to buy a copy of the Chinese edition as I have never had my picture in a Chinese book before It's great to hear how well your book is doing. Thanks so much for your letter of 30 December to me and others. Crosby, the 100th's Group Navigator, from Frank Murphy dated We then pulled up and continued the bomb run but all this, I feel, disrupted the integrity of the 100 BG formation and gave the swarms of Luftwaffe fighters buzzing like bees all around us the opening to take us on individually.
We were the deputy lead and followed John down as he sank for perhaps as long as 10-15 seconds not knowing how badly he was hit, even though he was streaming smoke and fluids. He feels, as do I, that what essentially did us in at Munster on 10 October 1943 was the lead airplane, Brady and Egan, getting knocked out on the bomb run. I have talked to Charlie Cruikshank a lot lately. Mike, (Faley, 100th BG Historian and Photo Archives) (probably severely burned since Id tsg was found badly damaged by fire) Mrs.Agnes Clark 603 Laurel Ave. Cark interred on at Lienen Cemetary/Wesph. Johnson said he was blown out of ship and his chute opened at about 5,000 ft.Ĭlark couldn't seem to get his escape hatch open and was probably killed when plane blow up. Bixler said Germans had shown him Vincenti's dog tags and told him that he was dead." Weeks said "Germans said Vincenti's chute had burned in the descent and that he was dead before hitting the ground.
Garrison saw both James Johnson & Robert Bixler wounded and in waist of plane. Weeks said that Vincenti bailed out of bomb-bay with chute afire.
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