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Typewritten description of missions 5 and 6 over Messina and Catania, Sicily. Receive Canadian fighter escorts over Malta: "These guys sure do fly the pants off a plane." Two photographs: one of planes aloft, one of crew member with gun.

Typewritten description of missions 7 and 8: destroying new new planes at airfields in San Giavanni and Foggia, Italy. Typewritten description of Missions 9-12: "On the Gerbini raid, a fighter got through our screen and at 3 o-clock, knocked off half…

Typewritten text describing food and living conditions in Benghazi: "the hardest part about living here is the food." Two photographs: One of well, one of crew member bathing.

Typewritten description of German attack on convoy. "They got one oil tanker and a cargo ship . . . We couldn't swim for about 2 weeks In peace without getting covered in oil." Four photographs: airplane aloft, plane being serviced, and wreckage in…

Typewritten description of Missions 15-17 over Sicily. On Catania mission, the crew has to land in Malta because they've lost an engine. Describes injuries at Messina raid that earned him a Purple Heart. Four photographs: plane on the ground,…

Four photographs of camp life: latrines, men shaving.

Typewritten description of surprise raid on Salonika, Greece, to bomb new planes. "Later the raid was written up in Colliers Magazine by a reporter that was in the lead plane." Three images of crewmembers and nose art of Wild Wolf.

Typewritten description of surveillance by German plane and ground attack on airfield by paratroopers. "When it came we were ready and eager to protect our planes cause that's what they were after." Four photographs: three of crew with side arms, and…

Nine photographs of Eddie Huddleston and airplanes at Harlingen Aerial Gunnery School

Typewritten description of leave in Tel Aviv, Palestine. Two photographs of unidentified women. One photograph of five crew members superimposed on Palestine pound with Huddleston's notations: "Killed," "missing," "wounded," "me."