Author's Note

part 1MEMORY FAILS ME

1Operation 5: Stuttgart

2Telegrams and Letters, Shattered Hopes and Dreams

3The Beginning of a Love Affair

4Seeking Answers

5Making Connections

part 2OF WHOM DO YOU SPEAK?

6The Background of War

7The Boys of EQ-P

8The World by Mid-1943

part 3HAVE WE MET BEFORE?

9Moving On, Moving Forward, but Never Quite Forgotten

10To England

11Becoming a Crew

12408 Squadron

13EQ-P: Birth of a Dragon

14Berlin: A Dickey Flight

15Operation 1: Leipzig

16Three More Operations: Stuttgart, Schweinfurt, and Augsburg

17March Holidays and Late-Winter Stand-Downs

part 4GET YOUR GEESE IN FORMATION

18Walking in Their Footsteps

19Beningbrough Hall

20Present Meets Past

21Just Jane

part 5I REMEMBER YOU

22To France

23Expectations and Realities

24Honking of Geese from Above

25The Cold Dawn

26A Long Walk to Be with Them

27Picking Up the Pieces

28A Celebration

29“Why Now, Why So Late?”

part 6HOW COULD I FORGEt?

30Mizpah

31In Memory

32Remembering the Dead

Afterword: Separating the Geese from the Ganders

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index