European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Recalling How we did it in 19441 these fighter pilots discuss their a Day mis Sions in the Furstenfeld Bruck air. Base officers club. Captains Denman o Keefe a Day vets. Bull session weekend photographs former combat pilots who were there rehash the events of the Normandy invasion and Patton second third and fourth from left flew Over the beachhead in the same flight of p-51 s As members of the 107th tactical reconnaissance Squadron. L ast sunday six pilots stationed at  air base talked Over the events of the june 6 four years ago when Amer ican invasion forces stormed the Normandy coast. All six of them were there then. Their missions included photo and visual recon Naissance and bombing ahead of the troops. All six of them remember in detail the events of the invasion Day. Three of the men Captain Robert Denman of Gary Indiana Captain William o Keefe of Fox Lake Illinois and Captain Roder ick Patton of Cornwall Pennsylvania flew together that Day in the same flight of p-51 s. Later Patton and lieutenant colonel Robert Smith of Hartington Nebraska were shot Down and held prisoner in the German pm Camp at Morseburg. In april 1945. The third army liberated them. Smith is now in command of the 45th photo reconnaissance Squadron and capt. Patton is his adjutant. On a Day photo reconnaissance in a p-38, it. Col. Smith was shot Down by fighters Over France bomber Pilot capt. Magee left flew bomb run on a Day morning a photo Mission that night. Shot Down by heavy anti aircraft fire Over St. To capt. Patton flew p-51 on a Day photo missions. I i 18 weekend june ims