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Message No. 1035Message:
Eric, I flew with your Grd Fth in1944. He did not have a plane. Contrary to the nonsense that was spread throughout the war years. We fly just like the Air lines do. The maintenance dept provides a list of flight ready planes each dayThe operations officers select crews and write Pilots names after certain plane numbers on the strike board. Thats the plane you fly that day. There are many more pilots than planes so you may go weeks befre flying the same plane again. I thought Norman was in the same flight Class 43J as myself which would have put him overseas the latter part of May 1944. We flew new planes from Fairfield Suison Air Field at Sacramento to Townsville Australia to a Modifification Depot. We then picked up new planes to be delivered to the Jolly Rogers. The plane I dropped off didn't even go to the 90th. It went to the 380th grp. and was flown mostly by Aussie pilots out of Darwin Australia. Just Remember no one under a General had their own plane regardless of the newspapers. Good Luck Jim Horner
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