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Capt. Amos H. "Hess" Bomberger
United States Army Air Force 361st Fighter Squadron 356th Fighter Group
Captain Amos Bomberger II, known as Hess, served with 361st Fighter Squadron, 356th Fighter Group and was stationed at Martlesham Heath, Suffolk, England.
He flew: 42-26649 P-47D QI-B Miss Carriage and 44-15080 P-51D QI-B Carolyn's Vergeltungswaffe.
Hess later went on to write the first Experimental Aircraft Association manual on formation flying. He appeared at air shows for a number of years in a Mustang painted in the colours of his wartime plane, although this one was just named Vergeltungswaffe. Carolyn was a former girlfriend, so her name was left off.
I met Hess at a Sun 'n Fun Fly-In, in Lakeland, FL, back in the 1980s, and was fortunate to be able to speak with him at length.