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Show ROBERT THAYER wrote so kindly of me, and then he came through here on the way to a reunion t Long Beach. We had a reunion on the Queen Mary and it was very appropriate becaus - in fact, I think, most of the group came home on the Queen Mary. We went over on the Elizabeth, but I think the Queen Mary brought most of the people home. But a few of us of course, came home by air. I didn't go over by air but I came back by air. BEC: they wereROB: The accommodations were probably a little better at that reunion than Oh, yes (laughs). But the mayor-! don't know if you've had an opportunity to go see it-it's in Long Beach, docked in Long Beach, and it's a tourist attraction, and they've kept a couple of the state rooms with all the bunks on them, to show how many people were, the officers were in one state room. Talking to you brings back so many memories to me. BEC: ROB: BEC: If thoughts are coming to your mind, tell me; I'd love to hear them. Well, we're not staying in any kind of sequence. That's all right. We'll let the historians sort that out; if they want to put it in order they can. ROB: Okay. Well, where were we? You said you had some more questions, come on. BEC: Those were the main ones, about D-day and about what your most memorable mission was. ROB: That would be Schweinfort. That was a ball-bearing plant and that was one of the, probably inflicted one of the most serious blows to the aircraft industry in Germany because ball-bearings were, and are still, very important part of any kind of 52 |
