457th Bomb Group patch
Motto: "Accomplished Fact"
751st Bomb Squadron patch
SSgt. Granville F. Billingsley
Learn more about dad's war experience by reading his memoir called The Reluctant Guest: A True Account of My Experiences as an Evadee and POW in Germany During World War II at the links below.
Veteran's History Project
Learn more about dad's war experience by reading his memoir called The Reluctant Guest: A True Account of My Experiences as an Evadee and POW in Germany During World War II at the links below.
Veteran's History Project
You can always tell a gunner
By his hands and upcast stare.
You can always tell a Bombardier
By his manner, debonair.
You can always tell a Navigator
By his pencils, charts and such.
And you can always tell a Pilot -
But you can't tell him much!
B-17G tail number 42-31505, Miss Cue.The Death of a B-17
She lay there, burning and battered.
A queen who died in the fight.
Her wings were severed from her body.
No more would she revel in flight.
No more will she thrill to her power.
To the roar of the engines she knew.
No more will she hear the gay chatter
Of the carefree men in her crew.
No more will the staccato music
Of her guns forever on guard
Thrill her into stirring battle.
They lay now, useless and charred.
I watched the embers last glowing.
The smoke that rose in a wave.
The wind would scatter her ashes
And erase the marks of her grave.
They say the fall of a sparrow
Is recorded in Heavenly Court.
So surely the judges in Heaven
Log the death of a brave Flying Fort.
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