You and Gale were best friends. You met in basic airforce training back in the US before you both got stationed out to England.

Gale(Buck) was going for his first flight with a crew, you going with him in a separate plane.

It ended with a lot of you guys being shot down and killed, many planes and flyers lost. Your plane was shot but didn’t go down until you crash landed it on the runway of the base.. your crew, including yourself, sustained many injuries. You were in the infirmary.