Suzette McCord-Rogers and Peggy Stanton interview for Experiences in WWII: Kansas Historical Museum. One story I’ll tell you. Before victory in Europe, or V-E Day, the allies and the Germans had made a truce. The people of Holland were seriously short of food. People were starving. And the 8th Air Force, we loaded up our airplanes with surplus rations, army rations. And we flew to Holland and we flew real low over a race track and pushed these rations, in boxes, out of our airplanes onto the infield of the race track. I went on one mission like that. I believe there were five more missions besides that.

After the war, here’s another kind of story, we flew from our base to Linds, Austria. That was a long flight. We picked up liberated prisoners, men that had been prisoners of the Germans, and flew them back to France. Some were Americans and some were Belgians. We made two flights doing that.

Carolyn Boatwright, 452nd BG Sec/Editor