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If the People at Home Only Knew

21 April 1945

Newspaper clipping of a letter titled If the People at Home Only Knew, signed Frank Calicura, England, 21 April 1945 — England, 21 April 1945. To Ray Taylor, later printed under the title “If the People at Home Only Knew.” Twenty-eight combat missions, seven still to go; the Spirit stood down for her third engine change; not once an abort. “We should be the honored ones, in having the people at home asking us to name it after our town.”Family collection · Zoom to read the handwriting

Newspaper clipping of a letter titled If the People at Home Only Knew, signed Frank Calicura, England, 21 April 1945 — England, 21 April 1945. To Ray Taylor, later printed under the title “If the People at Home Only Knew.” Twenty-eight combat missions, seven still to go; the Spirit stood down for her third engine change; not once an abort. “We should be the honored ones, in having the people at home asking us to name it after our town.”Family collection · Zoom to read the handwriting

What is visible

Newspaper clipping of a letter titled If the People at Home Only Knew, signed Frank Calicura, England, 21 April 1945

In the book

Chapter 11Borrowed Aircraft

On the roster

PilotFrank J. Calicura

Also

More of Frank J. Calicura in the footlocker
More of Ray Taylor in the footlocker
- Martinez Puts Name on Plane

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Family Collection. If the People at Home Only Knew, 21 April 1945. The Spirit of Martinez.

https://www.spiritofmartinez.com/archive/letter

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