ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The 489th Bombardment Squadron on Corsica</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#CCFFCC"> <CENTER><FONT SIZE="5"> <FONT COLOR=BLUE><B>The 489th Bombardment Squadron on Corsica</B> </FONT COLOR></FONT SIZE="5"></CENTER><BR> <Center> <IMG SRC=TitlePage2.jpg Width=750 Height=176 ALT="1. 489th BS Insignia from B-25 at MAAM, 2. 340th BG Insignia from Q. Kaiser's A2 flight jacket (1944), 3. NASA space shuttle photo of Corsica, 4. 12th Air Force patch, 5. U.S. Army Air Corps Patch ."> </Center><BR><BR> <CENTER><FONT SIZE="5"><FONT COLOR=BLUE><B>The Beach at Alesan, Corsica </FONT COLOR></FONT SIZE="5"></CENTER><BR> <Center> <IMG SRC="QCKBeach01.jpg" Width=700 Height=468 ALT="'...Messing about in boats, simply messing...'"><BR><Font Size=4> The guys spent much of their free time down at the beach when the weather was nice. In the life raft is a gunner named Richardson, Bill Devine and my dad, Quentin Kaiser. Richardson became a bombardier after they asked for volunteers due to a shortage of bombardiers. My dad declined despite the fact it would up his rank and pay.<BR><BR> <Font Color=Red>"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing- absolutely nothing- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing..."</Font Color=Red> <BR><BR> From "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame. <BR><BR><BR> <IMG SRC="QCKBeach04.jpg" Width=700 Height=367 ALT="C-47 buzzing the guys on the beach."><BR> This is a C-47 buzzing the guys on the beach at Alesani, Corsica.<BR>The men are naked so maybe it's a good thing this picture is out of focus.<BR><BR><BR> <IMG SRC="QCKBeach02.jpg" Width=350 Height=465 ALT="QCK in life raft where Alesani River meets Tyrrhenian Sea."> <IMG SRC="QCKBeach03.jpg" Width=350 Height=465 ALT="QCK hanging out at the beach."><BR> Quentin Kaiser in one of the life rafts where the Alesani River flows into the <BR>Tyrrhenian Sea (left), and just hanging out at the beach in the summer of 1944 (right). <BR><BR><BR> <IMG SRC="BeachFlight.jpg" Width=700 Height=479 ALT="Three B-25s flying over the beach at Alesani, Corsica."><BR> My father took this photo of three B-25s buzzing the beach at Alesani, Corsica.<BR><BR><BR> <IMG SRC="Guys25.jpg" Width=750 Height=570 ALT="Seven guys having fun at the beach at Alesani, Corsica."><BR> My dad photographed these guys getting ready to shove-off in their motorized life rafts.<BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR> <A HREF="mitchellmap.html" target="_blank"> The Larger picture</A><BR><BR> <A HREF="57thoncorsica.html" target="_blank"> Groups on Corsica</A><BR><BR> <BR><BR>Site created by Don Kaiser<BR><BR> If you have any comments or suggestions please <A HREF="mailto:489thcorsica@gmail.com?Subject=The 489th Bombardment Squadron on Corsica"> email me</A>.<BR><BR> Go to <A HREF="page.html"> Page 1, The 489th Bombardment Squadron in Corsica</a>.<br><br> Go to <A HREF="page2.html"> Page 2, searchable website</a>.<br><br> <!--WEBBOT bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan ALT="Site Meter" --> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">var site="sm6Fstella"</script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://sm6.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=sm6Fstella"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://sm6.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=sm6Fstella" target="_top"> <img src="http://sm6.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=sm6Fstella" alt="Site Meter" border=0></a> </noscript> <!-- Copyright (c)2000 Site Meter --> <!--WEBBOT bot="HTMLMarkup" Endspan --> </center> </body> </html>