On Sunday, October 27, the World War 2 Guys got to take part in our first ever "Flight of Fright" event at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum. The fun feature of this family trick or treating experience was that volunteers like our group would get to throw candy from inside the museum's aircraft collection. So with our mission established, and bags of candy in hand, we manned our aircraft. Rhys was dressed as an Airborne trooper dropping candy from the C-47 Skytrain. Matt and Cody were assigned to the B-17 Flying Fortress. Eric and Bryson were stationed in the B-29 Super Fortress, Lucky Lady. And Jeff made it out for the day, roaming the museum hangers as an Army M.P. The only big SNAFU of the day was that there were WAY more trick or treaters than the museum was expecting!!! We ran out of our first large bags of candy within the first hour. So a resupply mission brought back additional bombloads of candy for the guys inside the planes. It was an awesome afternoon event and drew enormous crowds to the museum which was great to see. Our group's favorite aspect was just getting to spend some quality time in these legendary aircraft of World War II.

On Saturday, October 12, the World War 2 Guys took advantage of the beautiful fall weather and held our annual photo shoot day. In attendance this year were five member representing various historical impressions. Matt was honoring Captain Charles T. Schoolfield of the 369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group who flew on the 2nd Schweinfurt mission on October 14, 1943 when he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross. Eric was portraying a fighter pilot of the 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group in the fall of 1944. This is the squadron that Major Francis "Gabby" Gabreski flew with in WWII when he became the top scoring USAAF ace in the European Theatre. Will and Rhys were both portraying infantrymen of the 16th Infantry Regiment in "The Big Red One" in 1944. And Bryson sported the uniform and equipment of a Belgian infantryman of the late 1950's and early 1960's with some pretty awesome weapons, a FN FAL, a Vigneron M2 submachine gun, and the venerable Browning Hi Power. It was a really fun afternoon and a great time among friends.