He worked in the bomb dump. He left Thurleigh 07 November 1945.







From a letter William E. Butler describes his ride over Europe after VE-Day. 'We took off from Thurleigh and headed straight for Cologne, Germany. According to the information I received, the pilot set the automatic controls as we left the English coast and did not touch them until we reached Cologne. We flew at 2,000ft. And if we had been at 200ft, we could have split the twin towers of the Cologne Cathedral. Either the automatic controls and navigation were that precise, or we were awfully lucky. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It looked like the only thing left standing in Cologne was the Cathedral.







Everything else was a sea of rubble. The pilot took the controls then and we flew down the Ruhr Valley, devastation everywhere. We left the Ruhr Valley and flew to Paris, then back to Thurleigh. I occupied the tail gunner's position part of the trip and had an excellent view of where I had been. But the fact there was no flak or ME 110s around helped considerably. '