We received the following message from Australia. We've asked Mr. Atkinson to send photos and a story for a future newsletter!

Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 8:49 PM

Dear Sir,

I came across your site whilst researching B24 Beautiful Betsy. A number of friends and myself are planning a trip into the crash site on Tuesday September 6th. We are all ex servicemen most with active service in Vietnam as either Infanteers or Artillery gunners. Our party will be no more than 8 in number and at the crash site we plan on raising the United States Flag and the Australian flag. playing Taps, followed by the Last Post, reading out the names of those lost, a minute silence, then we shall all sit and drink a cold beer with your old buddies in the Queensland bush.

Lest we Forget. I shall send photos and a report on our return. With deepest respect,

Ian G. Atkinson
ex 2nd battalion Royal Australian Regiment
MOOLOOLABA - QUEENSLAND
AUSTRALIA

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Dear Barbara, successfully reached Beautiful Betsy last Tuesday 6 Sept . Heather my wife has commenced to construct a small site at www.users.on.net/~theakkos/betsy -- it has no captions or text at this time but will have soon. In the interim, one of our team has requested that you inform any old friends or family of the lost crew that he and myself are prepared to act as guides and drivers if they wish visit the crash site.

We also received a letter dated August 19th, from

Wayne Shearsmith
27 Coniston Road
Kettering, Northants, NN16 8UL, England

Email: paulshearsmith@btinternet.com