Excerpt from Fogg in the Cockpit: The wartime diary of Captain Howard Fogg.
"Wednesday, July
12, 1944: Wretham
Up at 0815. Briefing
at 0930. Took off at 1110. Duplicate of yesterday’s show in every detail but flight
time. I led Olson, White, and Keesey. My #2 and #4 planes got lost in very
rough air of overcast. Picked up Kosc for #2. Homeyer flew #4 later. Encountered
heavy flak near Ruhr so everyone split up as usual. Major Shaw led. I became
Blue Flight.
We only had
eight planes out of 16 for escort duty. Never saw the ground; went from here to
Munich and back on instruments.
Couldn’t release
my left tank and it pissed me off highly. Then it fell off on my landing approach.
Sure was tired. Up
for 6 hours and 10 minutes. A long ride. Plane ran fine, loads of gas.
Damn this lousy
English weather."
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| March 29, 1944 photo of belly tanks. Photo archived by Char Baldridge, Historian, 359th Fighter Group Association. |
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