Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:04 pm
If I recall a conversation with Dad, the reason for the diary was that after 25 missions it was submitted for your Certificate of Membership into "The LUCKY BA$TARD'$" Club
SFC Milton C Hawkins Flight Engineer/Top Turrett gunner 331st Sqd 94th Bomb Grp 8th Air Force Rougham/Burry St Edmunds England.
SFC Milton C Hawkins Flight Engineer/Top Turrett gunner 331st Sqd 94th Bomb Grp 8th Air Force Rougham/Burry St Edmunds England.
Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:09 pm
Thanks for posting...
Keep his memories alive!
SPANNER
Keep his memories alive!
SPANNER
Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:09 pm
Wow. Must've been one heck of a time. Thanks for sharing with us.
Gary
Gary
Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:46 am
Fascinating - thanks you for posting these entries.
Enjoy the Day! Mark
Enjoy the Day! Mark
Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:16 am
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Love those little personal notes on each mission.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:37 pm
Great, great stuff .... loved it, thanks for sharing ..... 
Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:08 pm
Great Posts ... I enjoyed reading them ... I have the log of my cousin's 35 missions with the 381st BG ... amazing how his log was so close in format ... short and precise ... for a moment I thought I was reading his.
I had earlier posted here two clips from his personal 8mm films that we converted to DVD's.
Thanks for the posting.
I had earlier posted here two clips from his personal 8mm films that we converted to DVD's.
Thanks for the posting.
Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:40 pm
I would really like to see a sticky or WIX location where great, great stuff like this can be viewed by more folks. This kind of thread deserves an honorable location. This kind of contibution to WIX is, IMHO so much more valuable than most of the BS posted here ....
Re: Dad's Mission Diary
Mon May 30, 2011 3:07 pm
My Mother and both my sisters just returned fom a trip to England/Scottland where they visited the airfield at Burry Saint Edmunds. My oldest sister had made araingments for a tour with the Rougham Tower Association and they were met by a gentleman named Ted. When they entered the restored tower they were surprised to discover that my Father's crew (and all those who flew that day) was listed on the blackboard for the March 15, 1945 mission to Oranienburg. It seems Ted has done some research and through the freedom of information act has discovered that this was a special mission and had been requested by none other than General Leslie R Groves (Commander of the Manhatten Project). Intelligence had discovered that Oranienburg was where the Germans were working on a nuclear solution and the Russian Army was due to overrun the city in 48 hrs and the delayed action ordinance was dropped in order to deny the Russians any access to the area. History can certainly add a new twist!