AIR 28/217 RAF Downham Market ORB
Excerpt from the conclusion of the 28 November 1944 entry
A Skymaster from NEW YORK, bound for PRESTWICK, landed at DOWNHAM MARKET at 06.30 hours, lost and out of petrol. The passengers included an American General, 2 Colonels and a flight nurse.
WEATHER: Nil cloud, Vis 2 Miles, wind S>S>W 5 knots
This was the arrival of The Great Joy Queen, a GOCO (government owned contractor operated) Douglas C-54 of the US Army Air Force’s Air Transport Command (ATC).
The story of its flight appeared in Murchison’s THE SONG OF THE SKY and, considered a classic, has been repeated and anthologized:
https://archive.org/stream/songofsky...0murc_djvu.txt
https://rnpa.org/images/old-contrail...-Sept-2019.pdf
I would be most grateful for any sources for archival reporting of this flight (if extant, likely to be at the US National Archives at College Park MD or the US Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell AFB Alabama) or, even, a photograph of the Great Joy Queen.
many thanks,
david isby