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mack m issions in the b eat H arriabu.rg
atyl e and detail and a uadron Operations wer
e racing each oth er up and
down the hilly grapha of the eificiency charta. Septemb er merged with
pctober
October with bovember and
,
before xe realized it our orig fnal
,
unit Thanksgiv ing xas behin d us .
Th e s hi ps and Fl i g ht E,c he l o n di d no t
arrive on schedule since the n iRht
e left , Colunbia xas v isited by a
v iolent hail atorn xhich did more
damag e i n t en :ni n ut e s t h a n ou r f l y .
ing cowboys would have accomplished
in as many weeks The group l ost in
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all , fourteen planes.
I t was t h e f i r a t o f t h re e oc c as i o ns
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o ugh no
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the Twelfth Air Force to make quick
replace;nents , but this time we xere
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too bad is evidenced by the fact
that while first estimates of damage
rspair xere up to a couple of months ,
actuslly the grouo xaa operating ia
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crexs . L(aybe we did- and at ill dowage keen rivalry betxeen indiv idual
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alone on a vast axpanse of emptT aea
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briphtly l ignted at ninht and served
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t o gu i de t he St uk as t o.,our l oc a t i on
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On t'1 thirti day we pulled out and
s t ar t e d a d i z 2y
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across the Arabian S ea into the Gulf
o f Aden t owar d s t h e St r a i t s e f Bab
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as rre could aee by bailing w ire and
grasa rope . Th ang ineers eroa ded on
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of the w inners, the boat s raced for
ahore . f:ere we were herded onto the
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bat crewa more or l eea reluctantly ,
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Sfax while the Eighth Arnty got all
the credit . Fifteen daye and som e
1900 milea after leav ing abrit , the
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TUNIS IA
Y esnwhile the Flight Echelon and the
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we dug tho first of a long aeriee ot
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for a breather
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in sack tiae aad liaten ing t,o rum rs
of the great concentration of ahipa
and men all up and down the eoast .
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xaa offset by a nearby sandy beach ,
derry welcomed ue with a raid ust
aa we sat down to supper . Nobody
apillad hia cotfee . But the guns on
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and the group hit the ditch ae one
man . Supper was "meat and vegetable
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a few m inutes .
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nearby towns began to pall , heav
rain and trequent ahowera das anad
our spirita . Eb erybody waa bored and
reetleaa, the only bright epot being
the reaeipt of orders tor the firet
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party left takis na st of the tenta
and equipment w ith then. For three
daya the reat of ua huddled into the
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ea soon as the ten ta were gone , the
heavena opened up and unlooaed a
veritable flood .
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rounded by hill a . The group advance
party had coo:nandeered one whole
atreet ot the towa , turned out the
occupanta after having them clean up
the placea for us.The buildinga were
of volcanic atone and concrete x ith
wa 11 8 near l y t h re e f s e t t hi c k . I n
moat cases the quartera of one torarer Yasdl y was one large room perhapa
twenty feet aquare w ith domed ceiling titteen to eighteen feet high
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ltoat of them had probably b een built
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oi amo ke av e r i t and a t n i g ht , t he
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bub4ling la.a asnt orange apurts
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felt
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aa f e r f r om Ves uv i ua t han i r o+a t he
threat of G err
nan bomba which aeveral timea fell in Naplea twenty
a i l e a awa y .
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got all the credit .
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atanddowna during much of Pabruar
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an in early ltarch but on the lOth ,
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was one of thoae daya . Ths foraation
th
ran into f1ak .Twa ahipa of the
oollided but got back to the tield .
One of tha
t' in the follow ing
box dove to duck the colliaion iu
a hurry , pulled up , t wo of the bomb a
pulled looae and went through the
bomb bay doore
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The C olonel riding co-pilot with th e
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th went down
,
. That waa a real
loaa because in his short time w ith
had earned erver ua,Colonel
one'a reapect and liking and had
r a i s e d t he r. or al e o f t he out f i t t o
ita then higheat peak
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On the 15th ot 3larch the Alliea muat
h av e go t t e h ma d a t t he Ger mana who
,
in ap ite of bonbs and ahelltire were
still holding out in Caaaino and maki ng i t t oug h f o r ou r s l ogg i a g i a f aa
t ry Ne we r e t o l d t o l e ve l t h e dassie d
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pl a c e and f our o t he r me di ua ar+d e l e . en of th e hsavy groupa w sre aeat
along to hel p ua.
Then t he Fi t t h Ar+qp opeu e d up t he
Anzio beachhead and the wet
ld
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days at Fogg ia seemsd idyllic by com
parison . None of the combat crawa
wi l l e Per f o rg e t t he "heavy , i .nt en e
and accurate" llak over th e "wooded
area" or practically aqp part of the
aector a plane ventured to v ieit ,
Tha t mus t hav e ma de t he Ge rnia na mad
in turn becauae that nigtt some 35
of th eir bombers acooted la+r over
our heads to bomb Naplea.
At thie period of operetiona the G
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as a whole lost better than a dozen
l
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p ane a on
e e ac e a o pe r a t i on s ,
lJnder cover ot the excftemant
, our
new C .O ., Colonel Chapman alipped in
wi t ho ut f u s a o r f an f ar e .
After much heaitation becauae of political and relig inua co licationa
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lonte Cassino Abbey was then given
ua tor a target becauee the Germana
were intrenched there and "it was
cauaing the loea of too aiany Ameri,
can livea" . N e w eu t at it w ith the
heav ies and 26's The boys on the
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ground at the front were moat enthueisatic and word waa later pasaed to
ns that the B-25+s had
stolen ths
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ahox . Hut according
o our ideas, aa
For aereral daya
Veauv ius had beea
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acting up a bit more than uausl and
in the early hours of (arch 22 wo ke
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ue w ith ita rumbling and roaring It
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was anow ing eindera about aa large
aa HB shat with a aprinkling of tennie balls which by nid-morning were
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helped out by othere someti
mee aa
big as melona Mary of these l atter
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while iee-cruated out aide ehowed on
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the ina ide a white-hot core when the
force oP their fall b roke thes open
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by mid.-afteraoon we had
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tor revenge .in ply gave added
ac y t o t h e bvesb®r di e r a ' a i a, .
lfith bo.ba awa it a "So loag tlak ;
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h e l l o doughrru t a and eot t ed An d wer e
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they liteaarera atter thoae long par,
al,yzingly cold rl,dea ot l ast Spring l
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i the eoft.e and aink era
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their legalised bussing at Paestum
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out raid that abt e.en the combat
c r e re t o e oul at i ng t h e mol e . Pi c k a
and eho el a were at a premium aad
aaqy .ere the deaigna ot ahelters.
bad ihile ie re on the anb ect let e
,
g i. a the Bred C rosa a great b ia hand .
lYe got our tirat regular inetallatinn at Po peii aod it ha e beea a
permansnt ioatitnti+on erer since .
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For fourteen sionth e we had lookad
t or i t aa d he re i t wa o- t be nax t
beat place ta hoae
i
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find ia the tra.el booka trom warm
,
ocean bathing on a clean , sandy
beach to aonntain acenery
huntiag
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sad tiehing . hen th e Coloael ooa ea
bac k x ith some tarnsr a tattened eow
he a still b een "hunting" wild boar
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By July we had hit an allt iae higti
,
,
with a reeord tor hita that will reto
quire aone doing for a
group
better. Bnt e re out to do it our
e e l . e s i n t hi a . e ry aso h ot Auguet .
9 ur e we w e "b i t c he d" - e t l oc at i o ns
,
at food , at maqp things . That s w hat
b
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tl
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orae eah- it s
the itching urge for pertectioa oo
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aa er whether it e rolling ae.en
straight pasaa
or knocking ont a
p i u;w i at br i dg e - - t ha t Ri l l h e l p ne
c o i nns t o be t ap c oitt r i bat o r . t o
the war ettort
ither Jerry raid s
, ae
nor old V eauriua herself kept na oI
It
loager than it took to get onr R ind
.
So .rhere do we go troa here?
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par tment s and all stages oi undreas .
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out, equ ipped and operated post w ith
ev e r yt hi ng f rom c onzni s s ary s t o re s t o
movie houses , Followed some days of
s t i f f t e s t s o f ph y s i c al f i t ne s s and
n ce x hat x•ith calisthenics in
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kation nets , an obstacle courso and
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man aorted out hia half acre or so
of belonginga and lound to hia aurprise that the Army hadn t made "A"
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to Ca iro to establiah the custom
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birda
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their tente up
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aa the GI's . 'h a neceasary element a
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Pantelleria irom Cap Bon the German
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90th L 3ght took heart and continued
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to g iv e trouble around Ea fidav ill e
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w e did- and the Battle of Africa xsa
over . The neRSpapers didn't play it
up exactly that xay but you 'll note
that in aix xeeks after the 340th aa
ia
a unit xent iato action , the
folded np in Tunisia
The blooming
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British think the bloody Eighth Aray
did it bu t we don 't mind
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down to the busineaa of uar although
w a chafed at the policy w hich kept
us tiad to the apron atrings of the
12th Graup lfe dug slit trenchea in
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t be o rc h a r d e and . d e a t f i e l d a aa t h e
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into the Cap Bon peninaula we l eft
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the mopping up to the in fan
and
t ur ne d onr a t t e i on t o Partt e e r i a ,
atepp ing atoae to Ita1y . The reductian ot thia vat
im ted 'inpregnable fal and forCrese' waa entirely a m atter
oi pinpoiut deat ruction- coastal dei en ae s oa t h e i al and pe r i me t e r whi l e
the airfield amd harbor were praa ti.
cally ignored . One after another the
cosatal Datteriea wer.e destroyed in
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they xere mere ahella of their tort of dest ruction
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x e'd had a hand in .
and C -ratione of Hergla , the tre e
fruit and clear air of Si
c ily made
Comiso aeem like a GI paradise
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the good people of Sic ily xere .fai
rly friendly in ap ite of our rather
rough treatment of the ir town
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A e found more than a acore ot Me
1C9 'e in pertect condition and. plen
ty mQre Italian and G arman planea
r hich had made their laat landinge
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C eme August 2 5th and G roup ataged
a
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t hday party There xere the usual
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ho-hum apeeches and the ueual b
a aenco of timed brass hata l(ueic waa
turnished by a 10 p iece .nativc or
chestra xhich xaa really good A pic.
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n c aupper xas served and xas fo11o.F
ed by a magician , some talent from
the aquadrons and in th e even ing
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mov ie . The attair really went off in
gran d styl e an,d xas all to the good
from both entertainment and moral e
bu ilding atandpo inta
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souvenira and coll ected ao darn mary
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part s they decided it xould be easier to tly th em than to car
t them around . Soon .e had aeveral enemy
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plansa reconditioned and tly ing w ith
x ith Allied iuaign ia while eager men
chec ked out on these famoua hipa
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At t e r s re ep i ng up t h e "Cro rar e e t " we
ha d dr o ppe d aome t i me b e f o re c l ear
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i ng a t e x mi ne a and f i l l i ng up
ho l e a
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x e e e t t l e d doxr t o en oy i ng Si c i l y
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ot tremendous grape orc hard s xhere
Conc o r d- t ype bl ue g rape 8 and l us
cicua big white Malagas x ere
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getting to their beat . There xere
alm onda and peaches
uat ready for
t he p i c ki n g but i t wae a c ont i nual
race x ith the oxnsr x ho al ao had the
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came back x ith harrox ing detail s of
dead bodiea tied to booby trap
s,
minea ao thick only the skinniest
aappera rrere aert tn to locate them
anct s i mi l ar cor t o rt i ng i n f o rma t i on
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spotCatan ia A/b
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B etween m issiona to aueh fam iliar
spot a sa Randazzo ,Adrano and the unt orgettabl e 1essioa (at the time the
"m at heav ily defended spot in ,the
xorld" ) the flak-happq combat cre.ra
and the sand-happy ground peneonnel
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