The Colonel, the Adjutant and the Sergeant
Bob Rosenthal and Horace Varian enjoyed harassing each other during the war, and that did not change until Horace’s death. In the 70’s, Russell Zorn innocently wrote Varian, asking the date of Glenn Miller’s visit to Thorpe Abbotts in 1944, which gave rise to this exchange, in which Irv Waterbury (at that time the President […]
Missions and Memories of a WWII Bomb Group
Introductionby Harry H. Crosby Late in 1945 I was talking to a young pilot who had just been assigned to the 100th Bomb Group. Although he was supremely, even brashly, confident about himself and his crew, he was worried. Yes he was afraid. He said that when he was in the States training, he had already […]