"Posterity: You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." John Quincy Adams Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

I got an e-mail from a lurker wanting to know why I always referred to fighter cover as "TOP COVER" That's because our (USAAC) fighters always flew above us so they would have a sigificant diving advantage over any attackers The RAF Spits however socked in around us like a clamshell and went down...

Volunteer to give as much time as you can spare to help wounded vveterans at your local VA hospital. It is the best way you can really support our troops up close and personal. Please, do it now. They need you. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my...

D-Day: Start engines: 0412 hours Our aircraft had been serviced and prepared all through the night. Flying lead was Major Norgaard as pilot and formation leader and our CO, Colonel Bob Witty who flew as deputy group commander in the lead plane, the Mary Jo. In the crew was also was Capt. Jim...

Anyone know? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

I think back to the war and the RAF heavies on their night missions. Missions flown in the winter usually were in atrocioius weather where there was no view of the gound and the sky above was overcast. There was no way to shoot at star fix or take a dirft reading from the ground. Working dead...

Dear Art, Thank you so much for writing back to me. I am so thrilled that you not only have memories, but that you are so willing to share them. I can't tell you what that means to me. We have a little dementia problem with my parents and memories are hard to come by. Your website is wonderful....

Did military discipline become looser and more liberal since WWI?. Is military life easier now than it was then? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

"I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed managed to wangle slots in the Army Reserve and National Guard units." -- Colin Powell, My American Journey, 1995 Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

He went down on this mornings mission. He won't be back. When Paul, Bob and I arrived at the 344th we were assigned to the 494th squadron and given separate quarters along the squadron street. I entered mine and dumped my stuff on the one empty bunk there. I unpacked my B-4 bag, hung up my...

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To have had the ability to end the war and not having done so, would have been the greatest war crime of all. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Happy Holidays to one and all. On this day let us not forget absent friends. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Subject: Enola Gay: Burnt flesh and other magnificent technological From: RogerM Date: 12/13/03 7:12 AM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Peter Aitken wrote: 1) We could have dropped the bomb in a lightly populated...

This has to be the most acitve and responsive threads in the history of this NG. And it has only been around for about two weeks if that. I guess it goes to the very core of widespread aviation interests generating passion, flames as well as thoughtful gentlemanly responses. And it all started...

Lest we forget. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Their heroic record speaks for itself. And it seems that the only ones who question that are back-biting, carping, do-nothings who themselves have no record of acheivement. Arthur Kramer Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Subject: Long-range Spitfires and daylight Bomber Command raids (was: #1 Jet of World War II) From: (Peter Stickney) Date: 8/21/03 7:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time I'll disagree here. You want two pilots so they can take turns flying tight formation. For night...

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