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“Chick’s Crew is the best book I have seen on life in the 8th Air Force circa 1944.” 

                                                                                                      (Gen. Curtis Lemay)

 

“I want to congratulate you on a very good and touching story of the Eighth Air Force and its people.” 

                                                                                                      (Gen. James Doolittle)

Chick’s Crew

A Tale of the Eighth Air Force

By Ben Smith, Jr.

Tech. Sgt. BEN SMITH JR.

1944

“Chick’s Crew” is the story of the hair-raising adventures of a combat crewman who flew missions with the famed 303rd ‘Hell’s Angels’ Bombardment Group out of England in World War II.

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Third Edition - Bigger and Better

Chick’s Crew reunion on the Satilla River in South Georgia, 1978.

 

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Website designed and maintained by W. Austin Smith

Contact the author, Ben Smith, via email at judgebensmithjr@hotmail.com

An autobiography of

 World War II

 

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World War II