352nd Fighter Group - The Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney

Digitally edited version of "American Patrol" © Troy White. Used with permission.

This site is dedicated to all those who served with the
352nd Fighter Group and 1st Service Group during the Second World War.

2012 352nd Fighter Group Reunion

September 27 - 30, Seattle, WA

Itinerary

Thursday

Arrival and check-in @ Seatac Marriott. See below for optional day trips depending on arrival time.

Friday

Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage Collection

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Historic Flight Museum
http://historicflight.org/hf/

We have the hangar reserved at Historic Flight for an early evening BBQ. Because of this we will likely have a late start as it will be a long day. I could add an event for Friday morning for those that want to explore.

Saturday

Morning: Seattle Center. Space Needle, the Experience Music Project, and the Pacific Science Center are all located within an easy walk at Seattle Center. The King Tut exhibit is at Seattle Center on its last stop in the States before going back to Egypt.
Afternoon: Boeing Museum of Flight
Evening: Banquet

The Following Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and or previous Wednesday

I will take these days off. If anyone wants to have a guided tour I will accommodate them wherever they want to go. Depending on demand we may need to rent vehicles.

Options include:

· Day trip to Mount Rainier

· Day trip to Deception Pass

· Pike Place Market and seafood dinner on our deck.

· Day trip to northern Oregon, including trip to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum and Tillamook Air Museum. Depending on budget of those wanting to go this might require a trip by air. I have access to a pilot (former commercial) and aircraft, and if we went this route it would be limited seating and roughly $150 to $200 per person. Flight would take you by Mt Rainier, Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, and the Oregon Coast. Possible stop at the Pearson Air Museum in Vancouver, WA.

· Day trip to Olympic Flight Museum, LeMay Car Museum, and possibly a tour of McCord AFB.

· Day trip to Bellingham, WA to the Heritage Flight Museum and Vancouver, B.C. (passport required).

Hope you will plan to attend.

Todd Gehrke

President, 352nd Fighter Group Association

todd@352ndfightergroup.com

Bluenoser Tales is out of print

Bluenoser Tales is out of print an currently unavailable for purchase. Unfortunately there are no plans for another printing. Copies can occasionally found on ebay for purchase.

Bluenoser Tales is a riveting collection of first-person stories written in the skies over Europe by and about the pilots and airmen of the 352nd Fighter Group and the 1st Service Group of the "Mighty Eighth" Air Force during World War II. Experience flight in the cockpit of a P-47 Thunderbolt or a P-51 Mustang with these pilots in combat against the vaunted German Luftwaffe. Live with the ground crews working on their aircraft in the bitter cold, wet weather of English winters.

Meticulously researched, fast-paced, and laced with wartime humor, this book is the next best thing to having been there. More than 400 grayscale and color photographs illustrate over 80 fascinating tales describing the achievements and wartime life of this highly decorated fighter group. Fly with them on these missions as you read the stories, many in their own words, of these young fighter pilots who lived and died to help save the world. Bluenoser Tales is a tribute to their valor.

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