The Friends Journal is the quarterly publication of the Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. (AFMF), and is a member benefit. Among the stories included in this issue are the two surviving members reuniting to describe the mission that earned their entire B-17 crew the Silver Star; a CAS interpreter, a helicopter gunship pilot, and an air-evac medic relating their experiences in Vietnam; details about a WWI flying school in France; flying P-47s to the Nationalist Chinese after WWII; a T-33’s dangerous encounter with a thunderstorm; and a B-26 pilot among the first to take the fight to the Japanese in WWII. If you are interested in receiving the Journal in its entirety every quarter, consider a membership to the AFMF – visit afmuseum.com/membership or call (937) 258-1225. The AFMF is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to the expansion and improvement of the NMUSAF and to the preservation of the history of the United States Air Force.