We had drawn a secret mission. This was to be our trial by a jury of German night-fighters, searchlights, and flak-guns. The briefing room was empty at 7: 00, much to our surprise, we were to be the I only crew sent out that night. The briefing officer gave us all the information necessary for the flight. Take-off time, time in flight, target, target time, and compass heading to and from, bombing elevation, all of this was written down in our pilot\u27s notebook..
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A squadron of Fokker D-7\u27s is flying along over No-Man\u27s Land; the pilots in their open cockpi...
Co-pilot Arnold Thurber\u27s sly, cunning eyes became mirrors of wide-eyed terror and disbelief as h...
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