Contributor - Vic Cleary

Info Contributor - Norman R. Stickney (Co-Pilot)

I served with Lt. Gemmato's crew on both NO LOVE NO NOTHIN' (42-52533) & EASY MAID. EASY MAID was a new plane (1st mission) and we were shot down over Linz, Austria 25 Apr 45 (MACR 13987), on what I understand was the last mission of the war. I was one of the wounded and had a leg amputated in a German hospital. We also made a forced landing on the island of Vis in the Adriatic. Plane had so many shrapnel hits that it was beyond repair. Lt. Joe McGovern landed right after us. We also had to bail out over German territory in Yugoslavia and were picked up by Partisans. I had the occasion to meet Marshal Tito's chief of staff and was even asked to go on night patrols by the Partisans.

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