Nurses from a nearby unit were frequent visitors.
In between missions the pilots spent many hours lounging around the Officer’s Mess.
Duke Ellington heading stateside for a leave puts on an act as an injured evacuee. Just before being loaded aboard the DC-3 he jumped up and shouted “On to Spearfish!” (His hometown).
Sicily and civilization brought about many changes, including women, here on a captured ME-109.
Getting a chance to sit in a captured ME-109.
Victory Arch at Catania.
From Malta we were flown into Sicily.
We have an escort, a British Beaufighter.
Ships waiting offshore to unload.
Many flyable enemy aircraft were abandoned in Sicily.
