Europe Letters October 1944 (3)
04/23/22 • 18 min
This episode of "Dearest Ones," (published on Stanley's 99th birthday: April 23, 1923) includes The Silver King's thoughtful and thorough letters from A-72, north of Paris, in late October 1944. He's bunking with six officers, sleeping late, eating well, playing baseball, waiting for his bags and mail, requesting goodies from home, and hoping the weather will clear to begin his war.
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This episode of "Dearest Ones," (published on Stanley's 99th birthday: April 23, 1923) includes The Silver King's thoughtful and thorough letters from A-72, north of Paris, in late October 1944. He's bunking with six officers, sleeping late, eating well, playing baseball, waiting for his bags and mail, requesting goodies from home, and hoping the weather will clear to begin his war.
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- Please review The Silver King's War on Apple Podcasts
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Europe Letters October 1944 (2)
This episode continues Stanley's "Dearest Ones," the letters he wrote to his family throughout the Second World War. It's mid-October 1944 as he reaches his bomb group at A-72, north of Paris. The Germans occupied the air field weeks before The Silver King's arrival. He's in the Ninth Air Force, assigned to the 397th Bombardment Group, 597th Bombardment Squadron. His bags haven't arrived but there's plenty of champagne and he reports that his crew, "Festi's Boys," will remain together as they fly from A-72.
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Europe Letters November 1944 (1)
This episode is the first of Stanley's letters, "Dearest Ones," in November 1944, from A-72, north of Paris. The Silver King saw Germany for the first time on November 5, 1944. A night mission with clear skies and no enemy encounters, Stanley delivered his first bombing payload over Homburg. The New York Times published a brief story about the mission on Monday, November 6, 1944 (page 13), describing that.... "The attackers bombed warehouses, ammunition dumps and stockpiles, at Homburg, fifteen miles northeast of Saarbrucken, without encountering Nazi fighters or flak."
Stanley's war began with a train ride to the U. S. Army Air Corps classification HQ in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 10, 1943. He was 19. Twenty-two months later, on November 5, 1944, Stanley rode over Germany in a B-26 nose, the "Greenhouse." He was 21.
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