Subject: This day in 1944: Bastogne resupplied
From: "Ed Majden"
Date: 12/22/03 8:21 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: cpPFb.794884$9l5.400963@pd7tw2no


"ArtKramr"

We flew 2 missions that day. The sky was black with our planes. The USAAC
was
flying 11,000 missions a day. And the sky was packed with what seemed to
be
hundreds of C-47's dropping thousands of cargo chutes into Bastogne loaded
with
food, ammo, clothing, weapons and medicines. We later ;learned that 0ver
90% of
the chutes dropped were sucessfuly recovered by 101st forces. A remarkable
tribute ot he accuracy of the C-47's. The battle was far from over, but at
least the 101st now had what they needed to fight on. But Christmas would
be a
K ration day. We might take a moment this Christmas and think of those men
so
many years ago as we enjoy our Turkeys with all the fixins. Iron men in
harms
way.

Art:
I really enjoy reading your stories about the war years. I wish more
veterans would do the same. It won't be very many more years where much of
this first hand information will no longer be available. This era in our
history should never be forgotten. Thank you for your efforts.
Ed




Thanks for the kind words Ed. Actually all posts up to this point got little or
no responses and I have the feeling that there is very little interest in this
subject on this NG. I had planned on stopping with this last post. But with
your encouraging post, I think I might continue a while longer . Thanks again.
I appreciate your coming forward.

Best Regards,



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer