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Capt. Amos H. "Hess" Bomberger

United States Army Air Force 361st Fighter Squadron 356th Fighter Group

In Carolyn's Vergeltungswaffe - 1944

Captain Amos Bomberger II, known as Hess, served with 361st Fighter Squadron, 356th Fighter Group and was stationed at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, England. He flew: 42-26649 P-47D QI-B Miss Carriage and 44-15080 P-51D QI-B Carolyn's Vergeltungswaffe.

Hess later went on to write the first Experimental Aircraft Association manual on formation flying. He appeared at air shows for a number of years in a Mustang painted in the colours of his wartime plane, although this one was just named Vergeltungswaffe. Carolyn was a former girlfriend, so her name was left off.

I met Hess at a Sun 'n Fun Fly-In, in Lakeland, FL, back in the 1980s, and was fortunate to be able to speak with him at length.

In Miss Carriage

Pilots of the 361st FS



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