After VE Day, about May 27th, the 320th was disbanded. Most of us went to the 397th Bomb Group at San Quentin, France. Some favored individuals went to Germany near Nuremberq where they were to search the countryside for assets of the German Luftwaff. They ended at an airfield near Nuremberq, Herzabenaurach. Some were stationed at Furth, a near suburb of Nuremberq, where the Nuremberg trials took place.

The 397th received orders to fly all of its planes to a little field near Landsberg, Germany where Hitler had been imprisoned and where he wrote "Mein Kampf) I flew one there. They said, "It's a little short field and muddy. If you go through the fence, don't worry about it as the plane is just going to be blown up."

I had no trouble in landing and getting stopped. I later flew there with friends taking B- 26's there to be destroyed.

I later drove a jeep to Landsberq and drove out to where the B-26's were. There were just some GI's there and I drove among the rows. There were 30 rows of 30 meaning 900 B-26's were there. The GI's told me in the coming weeks they were going to start blowing the nose wheels off of the B-26's. I even found the one I flew on the Southern route. I had written it up when I got to St. Mawqan that the empennage was out of rig but have no idea if anything was ever done about it.

After I had been checked out in a P-51 and about three weeks after I had visited the B-26's by jeep, I flew to Landsberg in a P-51. What a sight to see! 900 B-26's with the noses down and the tails in the air. Would that I had taken a photo. I have never seen any photos of that or true accounts of what transpired there.

Darrel G. Lefever, 444th Squadron