Ed Peters from Oakdale, Ca was 22 when he was accepted for pilot training with the USAAF. He trained as a fighter pilot in the Gulf region and joined the 350th on 4th May 1944. Prior to D-Day he flew ten missions. He had a lucky escape on the 18th May when he was forced to bail out of his flaming P-47 while on a training mission over Raydon. Leaving the aircraft at 550ft his chute opened, swung once, and then he hit the ground yards from where his plane had crashed. In the five days after 6th June he flew 18 missions. Then came the fateful June 12th mission. Bounced by a numerically superior Luftwaffe force, the Squadron lost six pilots. Peters, badly hit, bailed out over the Channel. Indoing so he lost his left leg at the knee. With great pressence of mind and courage, he used his belt to form a tourniquet and so stemed the loss of blood, while he waited an hour in the water for Air Sea Rescue. Ed was flown back to the United States by C-54 and within a few months was well enough to be discharged and go back to civilian life. Ed Peters passed away 1st Feb 1991 and this contribution is made by his son, Dennis, in memory of a proud member of the Squadron.