Thank you for this. My father helped build this airfield and lived in a house just off the end of the runway. My mother waved to crew’s as they took off. I took him back there in about 2005. A nice trip down memory lane made all the better as there was a hangar dance on. Happy days.
My dad was a bombardier with the 493rd. Capt George J. Field, Jr. Completed his 30 missions and received his "Lucky Bastards" certificate, which is on my office wall. First mission D-Day; final Christmas Day 1945. Stayed on as a training officer until the end of the war. Flew on one of the Operation Chow Hound missions to Holland, which dropped food to the starving Dutch.
Thank you for this. My father helped build this airfield and lived in a house just off the end of the runway. My mother waved to crew’s as they took off. I took him back there in about 2005. A nice trip down memory lane made all the better as there was a hangar dance on. Happy days.
My dad was a bombardier with the 493rd. Capt George J. Field, Jr. Completed his 30 missions and received his "Lucky Bastards" certificate, which is on my office wall. First mission D-Day; final Christmas Day 1945. Stayed on as a training officer until the end of the war. Flew on one of the Operation Chow Hound missions to Holland, which dropped food to the starving Dutch.