To Kingdom Come
“The author had a chance to visit a number of them in the course of researching this book. They would be unrecognizable to the Americans who were stationed there during the war.Most are quiet, windswept places, stripped clean of the concrete runways, hardstands, repair hangars, and half-cylindrical Quonset huts with their distinctive corrugated metal roofs.Small granite commemorative monuments, similar to the ones erected by postwar generations at Gettysburg and Antietam, mark the empty airfield...s that once launched intrepid flight crews on their missions to Germany.Grafton Underwood, from which the 384th’s Jimmy Armstrong and Reb Grant took off on their last combat mission, is now a landscape of woods and pasture, with a few concrete perimeter tracks being the last hints of the airfield that once was.The 388th’s base at Knettishall, where Ted Wilken, Warren Laws, and the Greek were stationed, was newly constructed when they got there, with fifty-yard-wide runways and enough concrete hardstands for two groups.MoreLess
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