This episode is the first of Stanley's letters, "Dearest Ones," in November 1944, from A-72, north of Paris. The Silver King saw Germany for the first time on November 5, 1944. A night mission with clear skies and no enemy encounters, Stanley delivered his first bombing payload over Homburg. The New York Times published a brief story about the mission on Monday, November 6, 1944 (page 13), describing that.... "The attackers bombed warehouses, ammunition dumps and stockpiles, at Homburg, fifteen miles northeast of Saarbrucken, without encountering Nazi fighters or flak."
Stanley's war began with a train ride to the U. S. Army Air Corps classification HQ in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 10, 1943. He was 19. Twenty-two months later, on November 5, 1944, Stanley rode over Germany in a B-26 nose, the "Greenhouse." He was 21.
