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Today was a red letter day. For the 1st time in the ETO, I flew a “pleasure” mission. Our group has turned unoperational for a while as we are hauling supplies to France…

On September 27, 1944, my crew of nine guys crawled out of bed about 3 in the morning and headed for the flight line…

Earlier in September, we’d landed on a 2,700 foot grass field. Normally we had 6,000 feet of tarmac. On that mission to Hamm, Germany, we’d put on our oxygen masks as we crossed the Channel and began to rise above 11,000 feet...

September nights weren’t as peaceful once the Germans began firing V-2 rockets at England on September 9. They hit at the rate of six per night, with the first target being London…

Twelve-year-old Walter Hassenpflug loved airplanes. He belonged to the Hitler Youth modeling club that got together one evening a week at the museum center to build replicas of German, American and RAF planes.&nbsp;He knew them all and could identify them down to their divisions when they flew overhead. He didn’t know about the secret <em>Sturmgruppen…</em>

September 11, 1944 was a busy day for the 445th, but especially for <a href="https://www.kasselmission.org/crews/700th/bruce">William Bruce's crew</a>. Flying their plane from the US, <a href="https://www.kasselmission.org/bonnie-vee-story">the Bonnie Vee</a>, named for Bruce's wife Vyrlin, they were badly hit over enemy territory on a mission to hit oil targets at Hanover…