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Helen Fox Angell letters to Bess Peebles Fox, April-September 1945

1945-06-27 Helen Angell to Bess Peebles Fox Page 3

go. About two thirty we took off in our B-26. Naomi and I were up in front with Jim and another navigator and the two pilots. It was a nice, smooth take off. I was sitting by a window and Naomi & Jim went way up in the nose as soon as we got up. We flew to Namur, Liege, Aachen, Munden Gladback, Duren, Cologne, Bonn, past all the  castles and the Lorelei up to Heidelberg, back across the Rhine and the Moselle as the crow flies, and back to Florennes. When we got to Cologne, Naomi and Jim crawled back and the Lt. & I crawled forward, right up in the plexiglass nose where the front gunner would be. It was indescribable. We circled the most interesting things a couple of times. When they say that Duren and Cologne are wiped out they mean just that. They look as though they had melted and then been swept. We had a map and plotted our course. At Cologne I wanted to try a picture so we went around again and if it isn't a good one of the cathedral it's because I got excited.

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go. About two thirty we took off in our B-26. Naomi and I were up in front with Jim and another navigator and the two pilots. It was a nice, smooth take off. I was sitting by a window and Naomi & Jim went way up in the nose as soon as we got up. We flew to Namur, Liege, Aachen, Munden Gladback, Duren, Cologne, Bonn, past all the castles and the Lorelei up to Heidelberg, back across the Rhine and the Moselle as the crow flies, and back to Florennes. When we got to Cologne, Naomi and Jim crawled back and the Lt. & I crawled forward, right up in the plexiglass nose where the front gunner would be. It was indescribable. We circled the most interesting things a couple of times. When they say that Duren and Cologne are wiped out they mean just that. They look as though they had melted and then been swept. We had a map and plotted our course. At Cologne I wanted to try a picture so we went around again and if it isn't a good one of the cathedral it's because I got excited.