A Bridge Too Far..................

Diver6106 · 01-30-2015, 11:55 PM

Interesting. I also contacted the Dutch Museum about MG and offered to provide the particulars and pictures for their archive of the Ridgeway's B-17 flight. They weren't interested as "there wasn't a B-17 participating", despite my references. It also is not listed in official AF History, Lindley was the pilot and probably never wrote up the mission. But my Dad was co-pilot with his crew and they lived thru it and wrote it up for the 95th BG History, and of course Ridgeway in his memoirs. Lindley did remember it at a reunion in Seattle a few years back, but there memories had diverged some by then. Lindley had a whole career of three wars worth of missions by then, Dad had only WWII. Dad added a few particulars to that day 17 September 1944 when he told me about it. I think Holland has closed their archive and are not interest in any changes or additions.

01-30-2015, 11:55 PM	#24
Diver6106 User Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Mt. Vernon VA Posts: 246 Thanks: 1,436 Thanked 119 Times in 76 Posts	Interesting. I also contacted the Dutch Museum about MG and offered to provide the particulars and pictures for their archive of the Ridgeway's B-17 flight. They weren't interested as "there wasn't a B-17 participating", despite my references. It also is not listed in official AF History, Lindley was the pilot and probably never wrote up the mission. But my Dad was co-pilot with his crew and they lived thru it and wrote it up for the 95th BG History, and of course Ridgeway in his memoirs. Lindley did remember it at a reunion in Seattle a few years back, but there memories had diverged some by then. Lindley had a whole career of three wars worth of missions by then, Dad had only WWII. Dad added a few particulars to that day 17 September 1944 when he told me about it. I think Holland has closed their archive and are not interest in any changes or additions.