[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

I am Madison Jonas, from IHRA. I'm posting from Larry's account because when I tried to make my own account, it said that registration was disabled for new members. Anyway, I just wanted to answer some of the questions brought up in this thread.

First of all: yes, it’s true that we’re no longer working on the Eagles over Europe project. Larry was the driving force behind that project, and with his passing…we just didn’t have the resources to carry on with it. Last I heard, some of the other people who worked on the project might publish something from the research we all amassed over the years, but that is not something IHRA is involved with any longer. I certainly wish them all the luck.

And yes, I can confirm that is our eBay account. I do want to emphasize—as far as photos go, we are only selling off the photos that we purchased directly and have the original copies. We are not selling any photos that were loaned to us for research purposes or jointly purchased with other people. We have a great deal of respect for the people who shared information with Larry during his lifetime, and we’re not looking to betray that trust.

Regarding the Eagles Over the Pacific project: I’m happy to confirm the manuscript for Harvest of the Grim Reapers, Volume I is at the printer. It is a 528-page tome about the 27th and 3rd Bomb Groups in 1941 and 1942. It’s got some wonderful stories, amazing photography, profile art—the works, everything you’d expect from our books. Larry was heavily involved in the project up until he fell ill, and Edward Rogers and I carried it over the finish line. I’m really proud of how it turned out.

Beyond that, though…I don’t know. We have all the research and partial manuscripts for the 38th Bomb Group project and the remainder of the 3rd Bomb Group project. I don’t know what’s going to happen to them. I certainly hope we’ll be able to publish them all, but I don’t know how it will go. Unfortunately, it depends on several factors that are either unknown or private, and that’s all I can say about that.

So that’s about the size of things.