Found!!!

I found the photos I had been looking for! I had gone through the large box of my parent's old photos over and over, and through the photo albums, and then countless boxes and drawers but could not find them.Then I picked up a small box and unfolded some tissue paper. Wrapped in the paper was an envelope with the writing "old photos from WW II". Sometimes you are just one small box away from loosing something rare.

This is my dad inspecting 100 lb. napalm incendiary bombs -- Photographed at Airbase -- Poltava, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. June 1944". A note was added: "Note the cigarette behind back, he has just discovered one of the bombs is leaking and is about to get out of there, fast."

Italy 1944. In this photo my dad is pictured with three other crew members. I am guessing a pilot and co-pilot plus another member. There are no names. Captions reads "Frank with his crew". My dad is on the left. I am hoping the co-pilot I am in contact with is in the picture. That would be too cool!

Italy 1944. The caption on the back of this photo reads:

"The best crew the 347th ever had -- right Frank?"

(my dad is not in this picture but it is a picture of his crew)

I'm sending copies of the photos to the 99th. They have an archivist who won't almost loose things in little boxes.

In other news, I did a little Christmas shopping today. I only found some of what I was looking for. Bought dad and I some chocolate. Well, that wasn't on my list. Gotta have chocolate! LOL