07-17-2012, 07:52 PM
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On July 1st 2012 Second Lieutenant Whitney M. Bray of the 392 bombardment group of the Eighth Air force passed away at the age of 92.
He started his flying carrier in 1939 when he joined the RAF. Until the US joined the war he spent his time in the Left seat of an Avro Lancaster.
After the US joined the war he earned his living driving B-17's.
He flew all the big raids. When they woke him on the morning of the raid on the Swangfort ball bearing plant he told me that he knew it was going to be a bad day because they served the crews fresh eggs for breakfast.
In November of '43 he was shot down on the way home from bombing the heavy water plant in Norway.
He spent the rest of the war in Luft Stalag 1 in Barth Germany until he was liberated by the Russians.
I would be honored in any aviators out there would drink a toast to him and the Mighty Eighth ... he preferred gin.
As a side note. My father's eldest son Patrick died on July 12, 2012 of prostate cancer
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