Every hangar destroyed. We received an urgent call from II./JG26 asking us to ferry up building materials from our remaining bases near Rennes. It would take almost a full tank of gas. We took off in the dark, I looked over at my copilot and said "if we see a white plane its American, if a black it's RAF, if we see no planes at all it's the Luftwaffe. He grimaced and turned back to scanning the sky for enemy planes. I laughed, "What I wouldn't give for a few 190's from JG26 for escort" I thought. The flight is a long one over the Burgandy river near Orleans then turn towards Troyes on the Seine then North to our base near Utrecht. I settled back for a long flight.
