The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan Col. Bainbridge came over this evening for supper and stayed and talked, and he brought us quite a story and mission. A Frenchman, named Jean, had been a political prisoner of the Germans for a couple of years. They had him working in an underground coal mine where…
The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan We four P51 Mustangs, called the 589th Fighter Wing, are more or less an experimental group. We are part of the Air Force, but work hand in hand with ordinance department as we are the first to try out some new weapons. We are the only American planes…
The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan Our P51D’s have covered many hundred of miles since I wrote the last time. Colonel Bainbridge came over a few days ago and wanted us to use our rocket on some German Radar sights in southern France down on the Mediterranean on the area of Monaco. As I…
The Lobo Tank Busters; This Past Growing Season; I Attended The Senior Citizens Breakfast At The High School The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan This morning, we four pilots in our P51D’s had on extra fuel tanks and we headed northeast to the small country of Luxembourg. Some of the Resistance people gave us…
The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan We are going down to the area of Duren Germany, one of their better middle size cities. This city has been bombed time and time again and is pretty much destroyed. But it is still a big, busy railroad yard. This place is well guarded by automatic anti–aircraft…
The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan On today’s raid, we had on extra gas tanks and we flew straight west to the French and German border to a place called Wolfhaggen. This is a big railroad yard that connects to the French National Railway. It was a very big yard and it looked like…
The Lobo Tank Busters By: Stan Jordan We took off this morning about like any other morning on dawn patrol. We had on a full-load of rockets and ammo, but no extra gas tanks. We were on a common hunt and destroy mission, when the radio crackled and Col. Bainbridge called and said some of…
By: Stan Jordan As you can see from her career beginning to end photos, the years and old age has crept upon Joyce’s law enforcement career. So, with regret and many memories left behind, on March 4, 2015 after over thirty one years, Joyce Carr has retired from her law enforcement career. The hardest part…
