Show OUR MEN and N UNDER the COLORS AN EIGHTH BOMBER STATION england rell nell A reynolds 34 tall gunner of tile the eighth air loice flying tort fort crebs shacked kei 00 oo who flew four missions as dier has recently added the distinguished flying cross to ills his previous decorations of the air meal with three oak leaf clusters he Is a son of 0 john wesley Reyn of Cir cleville and a gr audate of 0 the plute flute high school benoie beffi e entering the fee lie was vaa mill operator con st luction worker ranch lanch hand and worked on the state road commission and for the forest service lie he has two to enemy fighters destroyed to his credit and also a probable we were coming back fro from the first mission to hamburg lie he related to the writer fighters were heay heavy and giving us ais hell an ME air log got nos nosey ey and came in at six thirty level lei el for a tall attack I 1 just poured it into him and he blew up the gunner said the other one an FW I 1 got over paris pails lie he stated it v was as a nice n ice clear day and plenty of enemy fighters were around A afeei f t e r 1 leai eai ing g t the h e t target ar g e t an FW ion c came a i n e 1 in n f aiom r i a about b ou t f ane 1 v e leel and I 1 caught him bilm with my fire as lie he came in the pilot balled out and I 1 watched the ship crash dol doivo in a woods below I 1 mgt gt reynolds once floated toi foi 11 II h 0 urs in a dinghy it so p pleasant 1 e sa lie he rec le called a d fight afe era eis sur d u us s 0 out u over oer the north sea after we had given them battle over the target at kiel they canie came from out of nowhere and cut us out of the was shot completely off and two or our oui gunners wounded gumbei two att 0 ind and four engines were shot out completely and the ship was just littered with holes we kept it in the air until we ne got within 80 miles ot of england and then ditched we floated in ding dinghies lifes 11 hours until all air sea rescue picked us up they did a marvelous job lie he said the mission to bremen on the eighth of october wa was a m my y worst ordeal he c confided on we hid had 0 ito o 3 en engine glue shot out and the gas lines lilt hit gas came coursing through the whole ship we had to call cal ithe the ball turret gunner out of ills his turret or lie he would have drowned why nye e even een put our heads out the waist aalst window without getting heavily sprayed by flying gas we were afraid even to talk over the interphone for fear of causing a flie fire one spark would have am e blown us to kingdom come la in the state we were in previous to the gas leakage I 1 was lilt lift in the back by flak but my flak suit saved me there the ship was full of holes and later we discovered that a tighter fighter had made a direct hit on no 2 engine puncturing the head we had some new men on the crew that day and im telling you we had it ft lie he concluded mgt reynolds feels that its the cooperation between the ground and air echelons that makes for successful bombing |