Metz Field January 1945, the date of the last big Luftwaffe effort of the war when 500 German fighters were sent up to strafe Allied airfields.P-47's burning

Metz Field

This P-51 Mustang of the pioneer Mustang Group was the first plane of the AEF to be serviced east of the Rhine. The field was in the vicinity of Frankfurt

vicinity of Frankfurt

Lt. Hiram Ralph Corey Jr. served in WW2 as a bombardier navigator. He was in the US Air Force. His plane was shot down over France in 1944. He was only 23.