Site Index

(NOTE: individual image files, PDF files, and mission map pages are not listed here)

Note the new addition (2015) of the Postwar Postscript pages (marked with asterisks).

Letters, etc.:

Letters Index (through 1945)
Billy's address book
Christmas card — images of the card Billy sent to June in 1944
Postcards — images of postcards from Billy to June and Una
V-mail — images of six "V-mail" letters Billy sent June, and a explanation of this type of mail service
*Letters from Newfoundland (1953-54)

Explanatory and supplementary pages:

AAF Navigator School — information, photos and artifacts
Bases (and locations) in the ETO — map and table of locations and dates
Bibliography and List of Sources
Billy's Service in the Texas National Guard — photos, information, links to documents
Earls Colne Today — photos of Billy's base as it appears today
Glossary — explanations of acronyms, terminology, airplane types, etc.
Jolly Roger — Mick's plane; photos and information
Maps Index — maps of missions and supplementary maps
Missions Index
Narsarsuaq (B-W 1) — the stopping-off base in Greenland; information and photos
Navigator School newspaper story
No Ball Targets information page
Robert Mims' story — more information on Mission #27, transcription of Mims' letter to Billy

Timeline — World War II events juxtaposed with events in Billy's life
Waley Garrett — information about Billy's friend, including an image of a newspaper article describing his death while in pilot training
Wartime housekeeping — Billy and June's first year of marriage; images of ration stamps
Wartime News on the Homefront — articles from Houston papers
Who's Who — a listing of the people prominently referred to in the Journal and letters

Postwar Postscript pages:

*Introduction — summary of Billy's service activities from 1946-1960
*1945-50: Back to school
*1950-52: Back in uniform
*1953-54: Arctic Sojourn
*1955-56: Great Falls, Montana
*1957-60: Great Falls, Montana
*After 4-18-60 — links to documents and other information concerning Billy's death

Documents:

Official Orders and Other Documents — index (note: this index includes documents through 1946; links to selected later documents are made at appropriate points in the Postwar Postscript text)

Other:

Andy Rooney's 1943 article
Yank picture — the cover of an Army magazine, and a picture from it, that Billy sent June in a 1943 letter

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