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in an ambulance which immediately pulled away toward the field hospital . The wings of the plane were splinters all over the runway, the engine was buried in the ground one hundred yards away, the rockets, machine guns and ammunition were strewn all over the area. Three days later the pilot was out flying missions again.

The weather continued in its miserable state. We continued to land Black Widow night fighters. Landed two of them right on the ground. After they were down the fog was so bad they couldn't see far enough to taxi. 

April 20 

The events of this morning will remain as a horrible nightmare in my mind for a long time to come. About 3 a.m. a P-61 called us over the radio for help in landing. He was coming back from a night patrol. We worked him around the pattern and set his wheels on the ground. The pilot said later that he realized he was on the ground when the lights of the runway went whizzing past him. He further advanced the information that his windshield was so fogged up as to make a landing by any means other than GCA an impossibility.(This fogging up of P-61 windshields has occurred frequently and is a result of sudden descent from high altitudes. I hope the new P-61's coming out will have a device to eliminate this fault but it seems that the phenomenon should have been discovered before by Air Force test pilots when the plane was in the testing stage. I suppose though that in a war speed in production sometimes make it impossible to check every bug.) A few minutes later another P-61 called for Darkie. We landed him too