[Protagoras]

My uncle was a B-17 co-pilot in the eighth. He paid the ultimate price for us. God bless those courageous men.

[Bringbackthedraft]

My family lost 3 brothers in one week over the skies in Germany. A horrific loss for one of my 2nd cousin's. The insanitiy of it all was they were bombing one of my great uncles below.

[Wright is right!]

My dad was a pilot of one based in Thorpe Abbott, East Anglia. We lost him on his 18th mission. Freak accident on climbout, not combat-related. Batch of flares stored in the cockpit went off, and the acrid black smoke filled the airplane. Everyone got out OK except my dad and his co-pilot, who stayed with the plane to steer it away from people on the ground. Crashed into the Somerleyton Estate. Buried later in Cambridge Cemetery.

Never knew him. I was born five months later. But what a guy he was.

Michael