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I have a question regarding the USAAF Air Transport Command at the end of WW2.
My Father passed away in Sept. and in going through his things I found some writings and items he had saved from his service period. He served in the
473rd Infantry in Italy. When the war ended he guarded POWs for some time in Pisa before being told he was returning stateside for 30 days leave before
starting for new training. He was given the option of traveling home by ship or plane. Since he had ridden a troopship across the Atlantic to Italy, he
thought that flying home sounded good.
He flew from Rome to Casablanca on what he described as a war weary B-17. There he boarded a C-54 headed to Miami, Florida. They lost one engine enroute
to the Azores. After hanging a new engine they departed for Bermuda. He wrote that 20 minutes out of Bermuda they lost an engine on the other side. He
said the flight took 22.5 hours in the air.
He had an identification tag from the flight in his mementos. I can't scan it right now so I can only describe it. It says USAAF AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND
across the top with a big bold GREEN PROJECT below that. Then there are six boxes of info with Destination Area 6, Route 598, Passengers name, Grade,
Serial No., and weight, which had no entry. The back of the tag has GREEN PROJECT in big bold letters.
What exactly was the GREEN PROJECT? I have never heard of that before. I would appreciate any info.
Les
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