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 | | After hard weeks of organizing and training at Wendover, Sioux City and Salina, the Air Echelon of our 388th Bombardment Group (Heavy) was ready (hopefully!) to fly the Atlantic to England in June, with a full complement of new Olive Drab and Neutral Gray camouflaged bombers. |
 | | Ten of us were on board my staff airplane, B-17F-90-BO USAAF s/n 4230230 (which I had named Homesick Angel because the aircraft climbed like one), when we departed the States from Dow Field, Bangor, Maine, on Tuesday, 15 June 1943. |
 | | After a very early breakfast we were in the air at 6:45 a.m. |
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