Before every mission it was my duty to fill out the form that would list the members of the crew on the mission for that day. It seems to me that it was called the Form #1. Usually I would fill in our names and serial numbers while we were waiting on the flight line. The plane on its nose, if I am reading the information on the print happened on the day we had the mission to Eger, on April 10, 1945 .

The Cavillot family in Florennes had a standing invitation for Bill and Me, that we were to come in every day that we were not flying a mission. They shared their food with us. I would consider them to have been middle class. They owned their home, it had a small garden space and I saw for the first time fruit trees pruned in "Espalier" form. In addition, they like most of the other residents of the town, had a garden spot out side the town limits, about a miles walk. Their plot had a small shed to store their tools. Along the roadway wild poppies were blooming and I remembered "In Flanders field where poppies grow, between the crosses row on row"-----

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