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Bringing the Peacemaker Home by Robert Taylor.
Badly marked by Focke-Wulf 190’s the B-17 The Peacemaker of the 91st Bomb Group
limps towards the sanctuary of the English coast escorted by P-51B Mustangs of
the 361st Fighter Group. To keep her flying the crew are jettisoning everything
that they can. The Peacemaker made it back to Bassingbourne that day, eight
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Bringing the Peacemaker Home by Robert Taylor
- The Signatures
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 | Colonel C E Bud Anderson
Bud Anderson went to England with the 357th Fighter Group in 1943, the first Eighth Air Force Group to be equipped with the P-51 Mustang. He got himself on the score sheet on one of the first Berlin missions, dog fighting with a bunch of Me109s who had set upon a straggling B-17. On 29th June 1944, leading his squadron on a mission to Leipzig, they ran into a formation of Fw190s. In the ensuing battle Anderson shot down the leader, and two more Fw190s. After a short rest in the U.S., Bud returned for a second tour, just in time for the 357th's big day on 27th November 1944. With the 353rd they took on a huge formation of some 200 enemy fighters, Anderson adding three more to his score. He finished the war with 16 air victories and many more probables.
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 | Colonel Steve Pisanos
Volunteering for the RAF in 1941, he joined 71 Eagle Squadron RAF, flying Spitfires, transferring into the USAAF 4th Fighter Group in October 1942. On 5th March he got his 10th victory in a P51 on an escort mission over France, but was forced down through engine failure. Evading capture he served behind enemy lines with the French Resistance, the American OSS, and the British SOE. He returned to England in September 1944 following the Allied liberation of Paris.
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