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Six books - 210 WW II stories of teenagers flying 8th Air Corps B-17 missions thru the flak and fighters Two fun books
on pets and my boyhood in the depression ( your great grandpa's story)

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James Lee Hutchinson talks about his experiences as a B-17 radio operator / gunner during WWII.

06/22/2025
06/18/2025

Air Cadet Ring 1943 – 2025 --- I was very proud to be a volunteer for the Air Cadet Basic Training program after I was drafted and I bought a sterling silver Air Cadet ring at a jewelry store in Amarillo. I spent thirteen dollars of my second month’s fifty dollar salary and that turned out to be very poor timing, my first financial error and I had to write home for extra cash. The ‘Big Cadet Wash-Out’ came two weeks later. Only four of the forty Cadets in our barracks were kept in the program and ‘just like that’ we thirty-six became gunners. I decided my new ring would now be my ‘Lucky Ring’ and never flew without it and my other charms. The majority of aircrew boys had superstitions about special lucky charm for survival. I had just found my charm earlier than most. God and the ring carried me through during twenty missions, a mid-air collision and more than 400 hours of combat and flying time! My Lucky ring worked like a charm in WW II however, that is not the end of the story!

The Wedding Ring --- June and I married in 1947 while I was in college on the GI Bill with a monthly stipend of ninety dollars. They raised it fifteen dollars to a hundred and five dollars for my new wife, but we could not afford a ring for me on month hundred and five bucks on month, so the Air Cadet ring became my wedding ring for fifty-eight years. I continue to wear it and it works as well at a hundred as it did at nineteen and flying missions at with the 490th Bomb Group in England

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06/15/2025

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Find my first book, "Through These Eyes" here. Click to order on Amazon!
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Find my first book, "Through These Eyes" here. Click to order on Amazon!

This is the story of Eighth Air Force bombing missions leaving England to blast targets in Hitler's Third Reich in 1944-45. Each clear day, the skies filled with hundreds of B17 Flying Fortress bombers and their escorts crossing the English Channel toward enemy targets protected by anti-aircraft ...

Click here for a full interview of the WWII flying the B-17.
06/15/2025

Click here for a full interview of the WWII flying the B-17.

The Liberty Foundation’s 2018 Salute to Veterans tour made a stop in Kentuckiana to take WWII veterans and the public on flights in a fully restored, WWII-er...

Sixty fun stories of pets and family --- with pencil sketches to prove I'm an old "starving artist'
01/26/2025

Sixty fun stories of pets and family --- with pencil sketches to prove I'm an old "starving artist'

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