SEAFURYADIC

Hi,
I am new to this forum and did not know Bill and the wonderful work it appears he carried out on Chelveston and the 305th BG. I wish I had, as in 1979 and as a member of the Essex Aviation Group. I invited over to this Country the now late Col. Hugh G. Ashcraft Jr., the pilot of the famous B17F the ‘Southern Comfort’. Hugh and his wife visited the crash site with us where his B17F ‘The Southern Comfort’ crashed, at Wickham Bishops, near Witham, Essex. He actually unearthed some of his own aircraft, and was very surprised at its condition . As time went on Hugh and his family visited me and my friends on at least three maybe four occasions, I began a very long correspondence relationship with the entire crew, apart from Steve Gogoyla who was killed after baling out and he fell out of his parachute on their last mission to Rotterdam.They were forced to return after heavy fighter attacks. It would have been nice to have shared all this with Bill, its a small world until you want something, it can then be very big. To a man I never knew but respect his efforts and achievements, R.I.P. Bill.