Unfortunately, I didn't pay too much attention to Dad's stories when I was a kid. If he ever described any details, I don't remember them. When I showed him a special plane I had found, he said he remembered it. I really thought it was the one. I wanted to solve the puzzle for him. It matched his stories: Ladd Field, Russians, secrets, everyone talking about it. But Dad's plane was a bomber with secret cargo and it was the only one he was ever given "shoot to kill" orders for. Another freeper tried to help find the plane before Dad died, but Dad was starting to get sick and I couldn't pry any details out of him.
But the plane I did find is pretty interesting. Someone may want to read about it.
http://www.akpub.com/akttt/oneof.html
By the way, as you foxholers jog my memories of Dad's stories, I am going to record them so the Hobbit lass will have them. :^)