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FOUND HER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 12:55 pm
by terveurn
44-6393 Reference with 15th AF - HQ
Confirms she was a 15th AF aircraft.
First notice - was assigned as a courier aircraft / transport transporting officers to Sofia.
Sofia HQ coordinated with the Russians as well as sending in OSS behind the Russian lines
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Re: FOUND HER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 4:23 pm
by jmkendall
Fantastic! Great Job!
AS a tongue in cheek comment; legally speaking if the "secret" has not been lined out with an authenticator it is still technically secret. I DO have a secret clearance....
I want to make sure that everyone knows I"m joking; for the most part!!!
20 years ago I was closing down the old Bencia Arsenal and came across a file cabinet of documents and pictures labeled Secret and above. I was going to turn them over to a military museum when I was told quite forefully that even though none of those docs was from later than 1953 and the earliest was from 1937, none of them could be given away till they were declassified. As far as I know, they are still sitting in storage at Roseville, unless someone just destroyed them.
Seriously though, Great job!
Re: FOUND HER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 6:36 pm
by terveurn
and the real pisser is the S-3 logs for November 1944 are missing from the 15th AF CD's (along with almost 90% of November 1944's combat records).
The S-3 logs would have shown who was on board, and serial numbers for all of these flights
I really want a time machine, I want to go back to who ever put these files together and wring their scrawny necks - god I hate these records (seriously who in their right mind needs 100 pages on VD records and only a single page on aviation operations for a bomb group)