"GENTLE ANNIE AND HER PIKCHORE
In the midst of a war a letter such as this must have been like a breath of fresh air, a little touch of the innocence that the pilots were fighting to keep alive and well in the world. --Syd Edwards, webmaster |
 "Gentle Annie" (front) pictured with the mounts of other Group C.O.s at the Bottisham Group Commanders Conference, circa Oct., 1944. � � Dear Pilot, � � I saw the pikchore of Gentle Annie in the Buffalo Courier Express. My Mummy and Daddy call me Gentle Annie and I will pray that you don't get into as much trubol as I do. I am in the third grade. Annie Croop P.S.: Here is my pikchore. I am 7. � � Colonel Rau had named his plane originally for Ann Kenyon, of Providence, R.I., a Women's Air Force Service Pilot, but, he decided, "effective immediately, Gentle Annie is named for little Annie Croop, of Wilson, NY. Reprinted from King's Cliffe Remembered Summer, 1996 issue. |
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