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Lt. Ernest Anders Erickson
Air Corps 1942 - 1945

Click to view Lt. Ernest Anders Erickson's complete thirty five 
mission list and twelve B-17 Flying Fortresses flown between
March 27th thru August 26th, 1944 out of Horham Airfield, England.


A beautiful black and white aerial photograph of Horham Airfield, England in 1944. Close your eyes and think of the film 12 O'Clock High and then begin to imagine the 95th Bomb Group's B-17s taking off and landing from that field. 17s heading out on a mission or returning from a mission over mainland of Europe back in 1943 through 1945, like a criss-cross star of the triangle.

One can only imagine the thousands of tales from those few years, so many stories told and untold. I can now think of the hundred questions I would ask if I could sit down with my father today and maybe start with:

"What was it like in the early morning to be in your ship, propellers blazing away and you awaiting take-off and soon enough joining the formation heading to your next target?" He told me often, he was too busy to be nervous, yet how many times did he wonder what was out there awaiting them.


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