After posting the mission log book I interviewed my dad. I had a lot of questions about the occurances and the people involved. Dad didn't enter certain kinds of information in his mission log. He just kept to the facts. On the log I have created hyperlinks to the information below.

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"At mission briefings Major Norgaard and Colonal Vance would describe the mission. If the map they showed us had a lot of red areas (we called 'ketsup') on it, we knew we were in for a dangerous mission over anti-aircraft hotspots. Invariably, if Major Norgaard flew in the lead plane, we were in for it!"

"Tracers are a special kind of bullet that lit up. Every fifth bullet was a tracer. The anti-craft installations could see were they were shooting in relation to the planes." "We could also tell where they were from those same tracers."

"After a briefing we were told to stand near our plane. If a green flare shot into the sky, the mission commensed. An amber flare told us to stand by. A red flare meant that the mission had been cancelled."