London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1945, London, Middlesex                                In unit news 19451 unit news 467th lib hits leading All b24s in 8th by Ray Lee stars and stripes staff writer 467th bomb its Way through intense flak to Hammer the Hermann Goering steel works South of Brunswick the Liberator piloted by Casey of Blwood carved itself a piece of 8th air Force history by becoming the first lib in the 8th to Complete 100 missions without an abort this it was u gala occasion at this As the Witch rounded out the Carl of finished his tour of 35 missions As Joe of los ground Crew was Given an Oak Leaf Cluster to his Bronze Star and his Crew was commended by William cd of the 2nd bomb it was More or less a routine Mission in perfect flying weather and uneventful until the target was there nazi Tackack spat angrily and from the Waist window it seemed As if a solid umbrella of flak had been opened Over the but the witchcraft and other b24s of the 467th droned through to plaster the target for what Albert group from called one of the Best Days the group Ever when the Witch sat Down on the Home the laconic who takes great Pride in the ship and sleeps in a Small hut beside remarked Good old Witch we made then everyone from High brass Down to ups was Shes a Good those who pitched in with Ramirez to Crew the Witch on its record tour Are George of Raymond of and j6e of and Walter of Las los flight besides Peter include Mathew of Copilot Robert of navigator James of Bombardier Richard of radio operator and Joe kerch of John of and Joe of 458th pistol team wins division title Heads for 8th finals 458th bomb group the stations pistol team won first place in the 2nd bomb division Competition and will compete in the 8th air Force finals later this coached by Thomas station defense officer from the teams individual score out of a possible 100 per cent was As follows Benton Arden William Harold and Ralph Cedar hello that Hope an St air Force bomber Bob Hope and Ronald Reagan go on furlough their papers Are signed by Charlie members of an Aasc sub depot commanded by Raymond of Melrose Robert of is an engine build up while Ronald of works in the Supply Charles of is on duty with the base personnel v2 like a big reports Mustang Pilot 357th Mustang Edward Pilot from san had a Choice item to add to his report when he came Home from a new years Day he said he saw a v2 this is what a flying Gas main looks like hurtling by at according to Hyman it looked like a big 50caliber Bullet As Long or longer than my with flames spitting from it came within 200 Yards of me and at a 70 degree it began to climb slowly and then gathered at my Alti tude it started to Cut vapor contrails and zoomed on up out of it was so close that for a time i thought it was headed straight for ordnance unit takes jeep into future Mark record year in Eto an ask air transport group year old at the end of this cargo and passenger hauling outfit commanded by Henry of can look Back on a record 12 months of Aerial ground Crews and pilots of the groups c47s have these figures ready for Recita Tion f individual flights pounds of War supplies f passengers f20 per cent of All wounded soldiers evacuated from France in transport hours twice the length of time the has been in the the outfit hit the Dusty plateau that was the first Landing strip in France on four Days later an Advance setting up quarters in a Slit Trench 50 feet was unloading the first tons of Small arms medical supplies and blood plasma flown to the the unit celebrated its first anniversary with a spectacular just before mid night Christmas an emergency Call was received to move troops from Points in in two Over 100 pilots and crewmen were briefed and in the the planes taking off in ground fog so thick that control Tower operators could Only hear them go Down the run Mission was completed without Parachute mama an air service command Burrell Parachute rigger from took off on a Dummy drop test flight he got of his marked in the inspection record of the Chute he carried was the name of its previous Leona his she took her sons place As a rigger when Bailey left Job at the Topeka army air base to join the Roh Call by Sid so Tapir air Force briefs when a bomb struck an English t town a 3rd bomb division detachment headed by Ferrand helped rescuers and 453rd bomb outfit commanded by Lawrence of completed missions in 11 stunt Man from William 493rd bomb group Fott Tail made 172 Parachute jumps As a but did not have to put his skill to a test flying More than 30 combat missions Over lady Luck Rode along with Kenneth Burk 388th bomb group Pilot from new and his when heres fuel for those Bull sessions about the postwar possibilities of the remarkable transformation above came about when an officer and seven Ems of an ordnance motor repair outfit at an 8th air Force bomber station were Asbed to turn a jeep into a staff car for use on the enclosing it in a wooden in six weeks the rebuilt jeep was ready for Interior is upholstered in two tone Gray and of salvaged blankets Windshield is shatterproof Glass plexiglass for rear and door windows was taken from junked fortresses and libera tors rear of jeep has Luggage compartment and Builtin headlights formerly contained canned its creators Are Merrill Walter Flat Maurice Al Arthur new and Morton Forest Iowa Robert and Bernard 35yearold former Aid Man Given dec 318th station distinguished service highest award for bravery in was presented at this Hospital to James of a former company Aid Man now assigned to the hospitals Supply Clarke went ashore with the second wave of infantry troops on next seeing two wounded men under fire in an open Clarke commandeered a horse and cart disregarding the heavy rain of went to the mens dressed their wounds and evacuated them to an Aid hops in lib to pay off broke fliers 448th bomb Max of new finance officer at this Liberator base commanded by Charles was flown Over 300 Miles to another base to deliver partial payments to almost 200 returning from a recent 19 Crews were forced to land at a Distant base when fog closed in on their Home when the persistent bad weather prevented the Crews from return ing the fliers were left stranded without funds until Morgan heres a wac Vith wrings air Force variety by Jim Russell stars and stripes staff writer or transport command Joe with at least vision would take a second look at pfc Jane As the picture next door will Bear the hair is the eyes a sparkling Blue and a full length photo would be even More but theres also something else about Jane that gets her seconds when the glances Are being Given she wears the Silver wings of a flight Crew member simply because Shes a full fledged Aerial holds the mos of an aircraft maintenance technician and used to main Tain and Fly on forts and liberators from an at ferrying base in Montana before being shipped overseas two months ago to Fly a this is truly something out of the especially in an area where blouses gleam with flight worn by but Jane cant see any thing extraordinary about the she unnecessarily aviation my i studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Cali i became an so when i got in at i stayed an just because in a woman mine has to be a strange theres More to Back up her the 23yearold san Antonio Gal comes from a flying Brothers were pfc Jane Windham civilian pilots and she holds a civilian pilots with 349 flying hours to her before joining the wac Over a year she was a director of flight training for the Wing of women a civilian outfit that trained women but dont get me she in no mechanical i know my but 1 had to study hard to learn men make the Best through some of they alone seem to be born we have to pick it up out of there Are a lot More women and probably better than Genius or Jane Rolls aeronautical and engineering terms off her Tongue As glibly As Garand discussing the nomenclature of the which is pretty confusing for one who still has difficulties reloading a stapling like they asked me if id Ever shaken Down a i but they drove me out showed me the ship and there if so i Shook it quite a fantastic picture to a literal minded i Jane is no career and this hard fact probably still haunts a Public relations officer Back in the he got Jane on a radio program that plugged for enlistment in the she was supposed to be the classic example of what the wac had to offer in the line of fostering careers through teaching of particular trades and but when she was asked her plans on comple Tion of her hitch in the she ended her radio career then and there with this Frank answer As soon As i find the right in going to Settle Down and raise me that Monkey wrench combed for missing airmans dog by Gerald Brekke stars and stripes staff writer 56th Thunderbolt the peaceful Prairie town of Jack Oconnor is waiting for a dog from overseas which he probably will never for a Small Black Mongrel which belonged to oconnors is and although he is still the subject of a search by army and civilian the Little dog which regularly used to Greet Wayne 56th fighter on his return from will probably never be he was last seen darting into a liver Pool crowd on May after break ing away from an officer who was taking him Back to America and Oconnor Ever since armistice when his master left on a Mission and didst come Slipstream has been the object of oconnors he requested that his sons dog be sent to and after the chief quartermaster had designated an officer who was return ing to the on official to take Slipstream the dog was started on his at new York the dog was to be turned Over to the port transportation officer and forwarded to the Kansas City quartermaster depot for delivery to or but at Liverpool slip Stream disappeared maybe he ran away because the strange noisy surroundings of live pools Busy railway station frightened but its More probable that he remembered the Days when he would go out on the line with his whom everyone Callec pie might have recalled How he used to see Butch off for a three Day pass in London without a or How he howled and would not eat for Days when his Pilot not come since the Day he ran Slipstream has been the subject of Many letters including one from Arnold wife of the general and head of the National aah women who had been enlisted in the search by but the reply has alway been the same no Butch former col David of traverse City and the men of the 56th Fighte Are still looking for a certain Black Mongrel dog to Send to or Sailor tops go Jivers 20th Mustang of gis participated in a Jitterbug Contes held at the Aero club Here by a visiting Sailor copped first the Blu Clad Winner was Hector Simard Boatswain mate second class from who had been Visitin his Joseph Simard the fourth engine began to smoke and plane was forced Down in a ploughed crewmen learning later rial the runways at the belgian Ai drome they had intended making an Emer ency Landing were still planted Widi German George Anden 361st Mustang group from Staten tangled Vith ten nazi two of which col idea Headon when he went into a Sam 388th bomb group fort Bombardier from the and Cecil Tail gunner rom Dodge almost became casualties when their own led by flak whizzed through their plane and narrowly missed Walter Pilot from fort brought his b17 Back from an assault on Oil refineries at Merseburg All controls except the Auto Matic in nine 357th a Mustang group has Kafoed 432j nazi lanes in the air and 42 on the Trie guns of 2nd comfy division fighter aircraft armoured by sgt Merl of East have fired better than rounds in combat without Malfus boys and a sons and daughter of three 359th mfr Tang group pilots killed in each received War Bonds As gifts from that outfit commanded by John j of san in 3 15 359th sonnet donated sgt Shetter exceeding its goal by Birmingham 379th bomb group Nas racked up 100 formerly flight Jesse Truett and Jackie 364th mus Tang group pilots from were commissioned second Loveys re service troops data Howard of Jefferson operates a Tenton wrecker for the 542nd ordnance heavy maintenance company recovering damaged invasion equip ment along the shores of with the port Marine maintenance Richard of leads a of Marine engine me Cliamus who repair t diesel engines of motor Tow launches and tugs that move cargo ships through the Channel Waters o a South coast William of West is port historian with the Harbor Craft com compiling the War record of a South coast port handling millions 0 tons of Ward notes a 104th general Hospital pit Homer paratroop medic from made his 13th jump Ott he was in Ward he returned to action Fol France and then fractured his knee in 13th month 3 Raymond f convalescing at 160p general Hospital from a Bullet wound avg the has been wounded four tuner i four countries by four types Shell in grenade in mortar fragments Small arms fire in Germai pfc John and pvt Nicholas Brothers from were reunited the first time in two years As patients at the 129ih general shrapnel floored John in while Nicholas Wai wounded in of retained his Job As Belmont county Ohio come clerk by taking the oath of office at 111th general where he is sem ing As a Belmont clerk since Dunfee was reelect a in the november pfc infantryman from took two nazi prisoners after he Baffi been and is recuperating at general Hospitalet the 18711 general Hospital is William of who naj delivered three nazi captives to his c and returning to his sector when was hit by sniper Verntta in England by the pull mrs rating and published by the United states armed it Fiji i