Stories of the 357th

Stories of the 357th Fighter Group "Yoxford Boys"

Gun camera film of Captain John England strafing a French D520 in Luftwaffe markings.

	Interview with 363rd FS Ace, OBee O'Brien
Captain William R. "OBee" O'Brien, 363rd FS, 6 Victories	OBee's Stories: Dogfight over Bordeaux France First Christmas in England Wrong Room First Daylight Bombing of Berlin Tommy Hayes in Java 1942
	The Yoxford Boys and the Me262
	Captain Bob Winks Another Jet for the Yoxford Boys by Jon Guttman
	Captain Bill Overstreet Short Snorter from Bill Overstreet Lt. Bill Overstreet, 363rd FS
	357th FG Mustangs in Sweden
	Crash site of 363rd FS Pilot Donovan Siverts
	RICHARD W. TAYLOR, 363rd FS
	Don Bochkay's "B" Model Mustangs
	A Name From the Past
	Captain Jim Browning's Last Mission Collection of WWII Newspaper Articles on Jim Browning.
	Normandy Invasion by Mark Stepelton LeRoy Ruder Notes from Mark Stepelton Assistance to Hurry Home Honey June 29, 1944 Rescue
	My Encounter with an ME 262 By Carroll Ofsthun
	On The Other Side OF The Coin
	Kit Carson's Narrow Escape
	The Short War of Don Rice
	James T. Crump, 363rd FS
	Air War Over Europe (Excerpts from Scott Richardson's Thesis)
	Morris McKinney, 364th FS
	A Speech Worth Dying For - Col. Russ Spicer
	On the Same Day - a collection of stories about the mission of 20 January 1945
	Will Foard, 364th FS
	The Yoxford Boys and the Arnhem Affair
	German Ace Richard Franz tells of Combat against the Yoxford Boys during the Arnhem Affair
	The Great Mouse Trap Play

	Interview with 362nd FS Armorer, Hoyt Parmer
	A View from the Flight Line, A personal Memoir (Merle Olmsted, Joe Deshay and Willar Bierly talk about maintaining the Mustangs of the 357th FG)
	Drop Tanks - The Wartime Experience of Donald W. Marner
	Bernard Seitzinger, 364th FS
	357th Big Beautiful Doll?
	Down in the Drink
	Captain Hubbard
	D Day. A Year Before the Big Bang Two stories from Ted Conlin
	357th FG Aircraft Markings
	The Adventures of a Frantic V Crew Chief
	How to Draw a Crowd 1945 ETO Style
	Jack Cleland RNZAF Exchange Pilot
	The Hard Way Home
	Lt. John Jenest, 362nd FS
	Remembering Jack Warren
	The Norwegian Odyssey of Bill Dunlop
	364th Pilot captures Prague/Ruzyne Airdrome
	Major Alva Murphy, Ace, 364th FS
	The Russian Pilot
	Captain William H. Mooney Jr.
	Matthew S. Martin, 362nd FS
	Interview with 357th FG member William Blystone by Darrell Reel
	"And Mama, what did you do in the great war?" The story of Red Cross Lady, Virginia Curnutt
	Dog Fight Over Germany. Kit Carson's account of the engagement on 14 January 1945.
	Swiss Mustangs

	108 Gallon Drop Tanks During Early 357th Operations
	Roland Wright - pilot of Mormon Mustang. Hear his 1945 BBC radio interview.

	"Joy Ride" My flight in "Eager Beaver"
	RV-8 Old Crow
	My Account by Lt John W (Jack) Dunn, 362nd FS

	The Mustangs of John England
	New 357th Memorial to Kirby Brown
	From Bali to Berlin - An Interview with General Tommy Hayes by Jon Guttman
	A Tale of two P-51s Named Joan by Merle Olmsted
	Pete Peterson's P-39 Adventure
	The Mystery of the 364th Squadron's "PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA
	D-Day and the Yoxford Boys
	Jim Browning's Flight Cap - 60 Years Later Collection or WWII Newspaper Articles on Jim Browning.
	Leiston Airfield
	German Aircraft After the War.
	Memories of the 357th FG by Joe Shea
	Story of 363rd FS pilot Lt Lawrence Dale Wood
	Story of 364th FS pilot, Jerome Jacobs

Coming Soon:

A Walk in France Summer of '44

Story of Charles G. Jones, P-51 Fighter Pilot Oct 19, 1944.

November 1944

(These and many other stories will be added soon. )

To read more stories of the 357th FG from Frank Aldridge's 357th FG site click here: http://www.357thfightergroup.com/

Drawing by Merle Olmsted