Here are some more pictures. Tim has included some notes or explanations to accompany the various photos. His combat tour of 35 missions went fast. April to August 1944. And that included TDY on the Russian Shuttle into Miragrad and a couple of weeks in Foggia Italy for raids into Czechoslavakia, before coming home to Thorpe Abbot.

We were climbing out to our rally area as we passed over a B-24 base. The smoke in the middle left is burning gasoline from a fully loaded Liberator which crashed and exploded on take-off.	A famous "Virgin". Picadilly Lilly, picture taken at Thorpe Abbot
353rd FG Colonel Glenn Duncan during his brief stop over at Thorpe Abbot on his way to/from Metfield or Raydon, not sure which base they were stationed when I took this picture.	A British RAF Mosquito Plywood Wonder buzzes our field. That is one plane I wish I had had a chance to fly.
Contrails from our P-51 escorts. P-51s, (in stages) escorted us all the way from England to Berlin where we dropped our bombs, and on into Russia.	Picture of one our escorts in its D-Day Invasion stripes paint job. I think this particular Mustang was from the old "Eagle" Squadron.
100 octane av/gas made a great subsitute for dry-cleaning. Hey, we had to improvise.	"Bombs Away" over Munich

 

A picture of 353rd FG Colonel Glenn Duncan's "Dove of Peace" I took when he had stopped by our base.

He shot down 23 LW planes, before he himself was shot down. He fought with the Dutch Underground until shortly before the end of the war when he finally made his way back to England and reassumed command of the 353rd FG shortly before VE Day.

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