Newsletters of the 449th Bomb Group Association
The 449th Bomb Group Association (BGA)began publishing a newsletter in 1982. For the first few years the newsletter was published on a yearly basis. In 1992 the newsletter received the name of "Late Pass," which was the call sign for the control tower at Grottaglie during WWII.
The newsletters contain a wide variety of information pertaining to the history of the 449th as well as details of the 449th BGA reunions which have been held on a regular basis since 1983.
The newsletters of the 449th have been converted to pdf files courtesy of IPS Incorporated. The newsletters are arranged by date. To view a particular newsletter, click in the table below on the selected month and title. If you are using Internet Explorer as your web browser and have Adobe's Acrobat Reader (version 6.0), the pdf file should open automatically. If you are using another web browser, you may get a pop up that asks you to save the file to your local hard drive.
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Newsletters of the 449th Bomb Group Association: