The storyThe Story01 How it Started A model B-24 for Christmas, and a message posted to a veterans' group. 02 Childhood Years A coal miner's son in West Virginia, and the girl from the third grade. 03 Early Days of Training From an airfield in Tucson to the Queen Mary to a Norfolk bomb group. 04 Crew Put Together How 42-100281 became Naughty Norma, and who paid for the nose art. 05 First Missions Thirty missions stood between the crew and home, and the odds were not good. 06 May 29, 1944 The twenty-ninth mission — bombs on Politz, eighteen fighters, and a field in Sweden. 07 Stay in Sweden Interned at Bulltofta, outside Malmö. 08 Home Again Back in the States on the twenty-second, married by the twenty-ninth. 09 Post War Discharged into the coal mines, and back in the Air Force by 1949. 10 To Retirement Rapid City, Morocco, and the crash he missed by a matter of days. 11 After Retirement A salmon-fishing trip to Alaska, and the last picture anyone took of him. 12 Other Crew Members Where the rest of the Forsyth crew went, and how their lives turned out. 13 The Last of Norma What became of Naughty Norma, six weeks after Dad's crew left her behind. 14 Salvaged Sally The plane left at Bulltofta, rebuilt from four wrecks and finally given a name.