JIM,
     In a message dated 07-09Ä97 you wrote ...
> I learned a lot baout the '17 that was new. And today while ooling
> around on the internet, I found WWW.Avnet.com that had a story from 1944
> covering a B-17 of the 8th that was hit in the horizontal stabilizer by
> another plane of their group. The plane that was hit did a loop and
> ended in a spin. Crew recovered and made a successful landing. Pilot got
> DFC. The theme was above all else, fly the plane.
   See if you can located a copy of "Flying Fortress by Edward
 Jablonski (c) 1965 Doubleday... The Library of Congress number
 is 65-19886... There is not ISBBN number in the book...
   I just got my 1945 issue of the Bombardier Information File
 back from EAA.  They say I may have one of the very few in
 existance... They made copies for their archives. They say
 they have plenty of PIFs (pilits) but that was the first BIF
 they had ever seen.  Verne Jobst, Director of EAA Air
 Operations was once copilot for Merle Black at Capital...
 Small world... Talked with Merle last night. He then told
 me they have 10 pilots in his family... I would like to know
 if that is some kind of record.
   One B-17 in my unit returned with over 30,000 (offically)
 holes in it.... Also a DFC maker..
 Jim
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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