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The Bottisham Blues

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on December 30, 2020December 7, 2021

The Bottisham Four, 26th July, 1944; iconic images that spawned a hundred pages of discussion. Blue or not?

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Running On Fumes

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on July 19, 2020December 7, 2021

Seven hours, covering 1300NM over open ocean, limited fuel, one engine, enemy fighters; there were few missions more relentlessly hazardous, nor with so many different hazards to face.

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“Rescue Me”

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on April 12, 2020December 7, 2021

The little told story of the USAAF’s 5th ASR and how they rescued war weary P-47’s and in turn, rescued almost a thousand downed airmen in the North Sea and English Channel.

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A War Weary Spitfire MkV of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on January 7, 2020December 7, 2021

What to do with a spare Spitfire?

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Not Just Pretty Nose Art; The Black Widows of Iwo Jima and Ie Shima, March-August 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on September 18, 2019December 7, 2021

The men of the 348th, 349th and 6th Night Fighter Squadrons were more than the nose art on their P-61’s.

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“The Little Friends” – Fighter Escorts of the Eighth Air Force, USAAF in the ETO 1944/45

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on June 2, 2019December 7, 2021

This one is a multifaceted Feature Article containing a biography of the pilot, a description of the build and a piece describing the importance of the ground attack role the “Little Friends” played in addition to the bomber escort role they are more widely known for.

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Lt. John “Ray” Johnson’s “Fighting Cocks” P-38L-1 Sep 1944 – Mar 1945

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on April 30, 2019December 7, 2021

The 13th Air Force did not fight the most glamorous of wars, theirs’ was a war of ground attack, relentlessly destroying Japanese ground forces and infrastructure. They fought, not from centralized bases closely tied together, but from island bases, spread hundreds of miles apart.

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Col. James Beckwith’s 15th FG P-51D-25 Mustang “Squirt” at Iwo Jima, March-May 1944

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on March 4, 2019December 7, 2021

Early on the morning of 7 April the 15th and 21st Groups were poised ready for the signal to start engines. The briefings of the day before and that morning had everyone eager to get the operation underway…

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2nd Lt. John A. Weese’s USAAF P-47D-15-RE of 365th F/G, 386th F/S in June, 1944

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on February 25, 2019December 7, 2021

“A short time later 2nd Lt. Weese reported that his engine was out and that he thought he could put his aircraft down behind friendly lines in the shallow water a little offshore Juno Beach.  1st Lt. Beaudrault reported that nothing more was heard from Wesse.”

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Lt. Bill Wisner’s USAAF North American P-51B-10-NA S/N 42-106449

  • by Mark Beckwith
  • Posted on November 6, 2018December 7, 2021

    Lt. William “Bill” Whisner DSC, USAAF Only one Air Force pilot was both…

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