A Message for those who receive our 466th Newsletter
We currently mail out over 600 copies of our 466th Newsletter
We have hoped those who receive it will make a $20 annual contribution to help
cover our expenses. In 2023 we received donations from 17 donors who generously donated
$1120. The cost of our newsletter printing and mailing was $3204.84.
Please Consider a Donation this year
So we can keep printing our fine newsletter
If you would like to switch and receive our newsletter by e-mail, to bring down our costs,
Contact: Beverly Tomb,: Secretary466thBGA@gmail.com
THANKS TO PAUL HINDLE, LISA SAVORY-MANSFIELD AND THEIR VOLUNTEER STAFF!
Paul has maintained the Memorial site and been the key architect, builder and dishwasher
of the
Visitor Center at Attlebridge
The 466th Bomb Group Association is making available one of our best research tools “Attlebridge Diaries” by John Woolnough, 8th AFHS founder. It was published first in 1979 and has been out of print for many years. The 466thBGA owns the rights to the book and we have decided to provide researchers with a PDF file copy of the book. Many thanks to the author's son John S. Woolnough for proof reading and making final edits. The cost is $25 and it will be sent on-line via WETRANSFER.COM. Payable by Check or PayPal.
We also still have hardback copies of “Attlebridge Arsenal” by Earl Wassom and Chris Brassfield available for $75 (includes shipping-USA only). Contact Bill Curtis bcurtis419@juno.com
ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL
Available in USA only
DUE TO POSTAGE RATE CHANGES NOW $60.00 + $15 POSTAGE
TOTAL $75.00
Send requests to: bcurtis419@juno.com
(Checks Only to 466th BGA)
Send check to: Bill Curtis, 466th BGA, 515 West Ariel Ave. Foley, Alabama 36535
************466th BGA VIDEO PRODUCTIONS******************
(DOWN-LOADABLE)
Updated 466th Bomb Group Honor Roll
This is a newly updated list of those 466th Veterans who gave their lives in Combat.
We will never forget their sacrifice
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FOR OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE POND
and anyone else who is interested
Attlebridge Notes Newsletter
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LAST AMERICAN BOMBER LOST BEFORE THE
GERMAN SURRENDER
Black Cat - Last American airplane shot down over Germany 4/21/45
Farrington Crew
Photo Credit: American Air Museum in Britain
Richard Farrington Crew
Standing Left to Right: John C. Murphy (RN), John A. Perella (N), John A. Regan (CP), Richard J. Farrington (P), George E. Noe (PN), Chris Manners (B)
Kneeling Left to Right: Robert E. Peterson (TG), John C. Brennan (WG), Jerome Barrett (FE), Howard G. Goodner (R/O), Albert Seraydarian (G)
This was the last 466th BG and indeed the last 8th AF B-24 crew shot down in WW2. Manners and Seraydarian were able to bail out. Everyone else in the photo above was KIA.
A wonderful account of the Black Cat Story has been written by the radio-operator's nephew and historian Thomas Childers:
WINGS OF THE MORNING
a great read and available through AMAZON.COM
BOMBER SQAUDRONS of the 466th
