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title: "Wing Ding"
description: "The written memories of Eugene Carson a tailgunner in the 8th Air Force."
url: "https://www.normandy1944.info/blog/ww2-books/wing-ding"
date: "2026-08-03T07:35:06+00:00"
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##  Wing Ding

 ![](https://www.normandy1944.info/images/books/american/eugene_carson/D-Day-Normandy-beyond-Books-wing-ding.jpg)

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###  Author: Lt. Col. Eugene T. Carson

 Book specifics

- Nationality: American
- Book form: Softcover
- Pages: 230
- 2592 views of this book

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It is fitting for me to dwell a moment on the man and a bit about his boyhood fascination with aviation which I too shared. Much of our fascination was whetted and brought to an edge by reading pulp magazines of the old Streets and Smith variety. Our heroes were G-8 and his Aces, Bull Martin and Nippy Weston as they battled against the Hun over the skies of the Western Front. We built 'rubber-band-powered' Spads and German Fokkers launching them from the third floor attic window. Often the Fokkers would be set ablaze to make sure G-8 and his men were winning the battle.

We were about 10 years old when we experienced a real airplane ride. A cousin of our Mother owned a small flying service. During the County Fair at Leighton, Pennsylvania we managed to get a sight seeing ride in his Waco biplane. From then on we were hooked, our feet never belonged on the ground.

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