[Milsurplus] Bomber Crew Fantasy Camp ( Milsurplus Digest, Vol 137, Issue 24 )

[Hue Miller]

For some reason this topic jogged my memory and I suddenly, unexpectedly 
recalled something I'd heard years ago.
I was living out here on the coast, so it was maybe around 2005 -2006 maybe. 
I was listening to some late nite A.M.
radio program, one known then for being on the far-out side, and they were 
talking about 'disappearances' or some
such topic. An elderly gentleman called in; I think  he said he was 93 years 
old, and he lived just down the road in
Waldport, Oregon. He said he'd been flying, as pilot I think, in a large 
plane, type disremembered by me, along with
another plane on the CBI 'hump route'.  He said he could see the other plane 
one minute, and the next time he
looked, it was gone - and according to him, never found.  At the time, and 
due to the proximity - it's about a half
hour drive down the coast to Waldport - I thought I should try to look him 
up and talk to him about it. Waldport has
population something like 1000 so it wouldn't be like searching NYC. But I 
forgot the event til this day. I suppose
it is too late now but - I just might advertise in the local paper asking 
for any info or leads on the story.

(Totally OT, related only by 'disappearances'. The same program had a night 
on 'disappearances in National
Parks ( and such spaces ) which the program seemed to imply were due to some 
mysterious agents. I read a book
earlier this year on cougar attacks and I conclude that may explain those 
disappearances, especially of children,
much better. This is one of the absolute scariest books I have ever read: 
cougars making it a point to predate
humans. One of the accounts, it seems, was of someone I attended college 
with ( many years back ) who was
knocked off a bicycle on Vancouver Island ( B.C. Canada ) and attacked. A 
passer-by helped him drive the cat
off. Yesterday I was talking to the owner of a local bookstore and she said 
she'd in July shooed a cougar off her
porch where it was sniffing for some (domestic) kittens hiding there. She 
said the big cat walked nonchalantly
off. She said ODF&W told her the cat would probably leave on its own, as 
they travel with the elk herd. ODF&W
also said if the cat became a problem, it would have to be killed, as 
relocating  them any distance away doesn't
work - they return to their own hunting ground. Sorry - kind of far from WW2 
bombers, I know. )
-Hue Miller