#dday70 #ddaycbs11 /SbYG9u6Bqs- Doug Dunbar May 31, 2014 Highland Park D Day vet Major Brooks, describes shooting down 3 German fighters near Bastone. Many times providing top cover (fighter cover) for airborne re-supply missions, especially for drops into Bastogne, for the boys of the 101 st Airborne. He flew 93 missions, 70 of them in P-38’s. READ MORE: School Districts Also Forced To Navigate Supply Chain Shortagesīrooks told me he knew this place well, but he’d never seen it from the ground. What the walls and bricks did not give up, Highland Park resident Major Brooks did.
Part modern museum, if the walls and bricks could talk, what stories they could share. The Battle of the Bulge base of operations for the screaming eagles, and housing, that now stands frozen in time.
It was a short winding ride through the north side of Bastogne, to reach the former home of the 101 st Airborne today.
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