"Nuisance Air Raids" were quite frequent during the month of December 1944 and on the morning of 23 December a bomb was dropped in the Officers area of this squadron. Two Officers were killed and nine others were wounded. Lieutenant Richard "Mickey" Finn and Harold B. Smith were killed. (Read a report by Lieutenant Bill Holbrook, and a story by Captain Bill Harves  Harve on this attack.)
  (Courtesy Warren Nelson)


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