Ellington Field News

Lieutenant Richard Cole and the 17th Bombardment Group had never seen combat, but that changed once Japanese bombs surprised Pearl Harbor, flinging America into World War II.

Chief Master Sgt. Tom Bragg, with the 147th Reconnaissance Wing at Ellington Field, Texas, flies Ollie during one of his volunteer flights with Pilots N Paws.

Warren Pietsch, Minot, director of warbirds operations and chief pilot for the Texas private museum, said getting the planes to Minot took several people: Eloise Ogden/MDN Don Larson, president of the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot, stands beside the TBM-3E Avenger in the air museum Monday.

The memory of explosions and airplanes falling out of the sky is still very vivid for two East Texas men.