Subject: He went down on this mornings mission he won't be back.
From: "S. Sampson"
Date: 2/2/04 3:22 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: XYATb.15799$Q_4.4790@okepread03

"Ed Rasimus" wrote
(ArtKramr) wrote:

He went down on this mornings mission. He won't be back.

Poignant story and it happens in combat more than most people imagine.
I got a "warm bunk" when I arrived at Korat in May of '66 for my F-105
tour and got a "warm bunk" again at Korat in June of '72 for the F-4
tour.

I heard about bunks, but being an enlisted man I got to use my sleeping bag
and an air mattress :-)


We lived in tents heated by a little pot bellied stoves, slept in cots on a
sleeping bag. Damn near froze to death.And that was both officers and enlsited
as well.


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