Z SQUARE 7, A B-29 TRUE STORY

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The Z Square 7 Crew
Z Square 7 Crew Families
Z Square 7 Crew Cemeteries.
Missing Air Crew Report
Z Square 7 Crew Military Funeral
Memorial Lt Eugene M. Thomas Jr (Marion, Al)
Memorial Lt Francis X. Glacken (Cambridge, MA)
Memorial Lt Norman B. Bassett (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
Marcia Bassett McGrattan
Memorial Sgt George P. Demers (Lynn, MA)
Memorial Sgt George P. Demers (Lynn, MA)
Peter & Lillian Demers/Charlotte (Demers) Fiasconaro
Memorial Sgt Louis A. Dorio (Clarksville, VA)
POW-MIA-KIA Ceremony
Bill Mauldin With Willie And Joe
Father John McBride
S/Sgt Kenneth O. Eslick with Photo Album
Sgt Jesse S. Klein. 41-13180
Sgt James B. Rice, Radio Operator, C47, 42-108884
Frank Farr & Merseburg, Germany
Ivan Fail Introduction and "Long Before The Guns And Tanks."
Ivan Fail's "Tribute to the Queen"
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL
Frank Farr Poetry "November 2, 1944", "Old Men And The War", " Merseburg"
Zachary Taylor Nat'l Cemetery Memorial Pages Introduction
Zachary Taylor Nat'l Cemetery Memorial Crew Index
Zachary Taylor Nat'l Cemetery Memorial Page 1
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Ivan Fail's "The Tuskegee Airmen"
Memorial Page #1
Memorial Page #2
Memorial Page #3
Memorial Page #4
Memorial Page #5
Memorial Page #6
The Navajo Code Talkers & Native American Medals Of Honor
Ivan Fail's "D Day, The Normandy Invasion"
Ivan Fail's "When The Mustangs Came"
Ivan Fail's "Against All Odds - Mission Complete"
Ford Tolbert by Sallyann
Ford Tolbert Pictures
A Tribute to Lt Raymond "Hap" Halloran
Lt Raymond "Hap" Halloran
Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC, The Black Sheep Squadron
Lt Halloran Eulogy for Colonel Boyington
Omori POW Camp
Ivan Fail's "A Salute To Lt. Holguin"/ "Shoo Shoo Baby"
General Lemay's biography including a B-29 nose art photo album
March 9 and 10, 1945 Over Tokyo
Lt "Hap" Halloran on March 10, 1945
General Earl Johnson
General Earl Johnson Biography
313th Bomb Wing Mining Missions
Lt Robert Copeland, copilot, Z Square 8
Pyote Bomber Base With A Photo Album
"Hap" Halloran induction Combat Airman Hall of Fame
Blackie Blackburn with a photo album
Hap's Memorable Flight On FIFI
C. Douglas Caffey, A WW2 Veteran, Book Of Poetry
C. Douglas Caffey Collection Of Poetry
C. Douglas Caffey Poetry
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "Graveyard at the Bottom of the Sea"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "I Saw Liberty Crying"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "Old Memories"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "I Saw An Old Veteran"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "Flying Backwards"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "All Is Quiet On Iwo Jima"
C. Douglas Caffey Poem "Bones In The Sand"
C. Douglas Caffey on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
C. Douglas Caffey With More on PTSD
C. Douglas Caffey Memorial Day Flying The Flag
C. Douglas Caffey Saying Goodbye To America
The Pacific Theater
Battle of Saipan, Mariana Islands
Saipan Medals of Honor
Battle of Tinian, Mariana Islands
Tinian Medals of Honor
Battle of Guam, Mariana Islands
Guam Medals of Honor
Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima Medals of Honor
Cpl Ira Hayes, USMC
Battle of Okinawa
Okinawa Medals of Honor
Ivan Fail's "The Saga Of The Superfortress"
Ivan Fail's "The Silent Sentries"
Last Page

C. Douglas Caffey

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Piper J-3 Cub

Flying Backwards
 
 
Now this is a true
account
of how I found
out
that planes could fly
backwards!
Leased a Piper J-3
Cub
on a very windy day
above.
The man at the hanger said
"It's awful windy out
there."
And my reply to him was;
"I like turbulent
air".
So headed her into the strong
blowin' wind
and was air borne
quicker than you could say
"Great gobs of goose
grease".
Headed her up wind
pulled the throttle
out,
pulled the stick back
climbing, climbing away from
Mother Earth
and that J-3, it was plain to
see
wanted to be free
like she had a second
birth!
Up, up she went very
high
in the very windy
sky.
Leveled off watching a
country barn
approach;
began to throttle back  on that
J-3
and that barn stood still
for me!
Now ease the throttle back
some more and I
declare
that Piper Cub was
flying backward
in the
air!
Mission accomplished!
Just a little less
throttle
and did a partial-power
stall,
and as she dropped away
on that cold and
windy
day,
kicked left rudder,
felt that tell-tale shudder
and did a tail-spin
turning round and round
and headed for a certain spot
on the ground;
Now kick right rudder
and that Cub,
smooth as butter,
went into a screaming dive.
So much fun I'm having
up here in God's
blue sky!
Time to push the stick forward
then back into my gut,
and out of the dive
she flies
in these cold and windy
skies.
Sure had my fun today,
like an extra-marital
affair
with a Piper Cub in God's cold
and windy
air.
Set her down so gently
like a feather wafting
down,
and you can bet
Caffey was the happiest
guy in
town.
And as I left the hanger
I saw an old Buick
whose bumper sticker read,
"Flying is the most fun
one
can have with his pants
on!"
 
 
The above is the only
extra-marital affair
I've had
on the ground
or in the
air!
 
 
 

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C. Douglas Caffey

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