JIM’S CORNER

Fantastic News!

United Heritage Charity Founda-tion is the official sponsor of the 3rd Annual Jacobson/Hot Stuff Memorial Golf Tournament. The tournament will take place on Monday, June 27, 2016.

Sculptor Terry Hinde has com-pleted the centerpiece of the Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Memorial Monument, a stainless steel mod-el of the B-24 Liberator Hot Stuff. He did an incredible job!

WOW! Thanks to Oli Marteins-son, Icelandair is going to ship the Hot Stuff model to Keflavik, Iceland free of charge.

The book Before The Belle is now available on Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com and can be downloaded from Google Play.

There are several excellent re-views of the book on Amazon.com from readers who have read the book.We should have the final de-sign for the stone portion of the monument available by the next newsletter.

Jim Lux

HOT STUFF/GEN. ANDREWSNewsletter #13February 2016

HOT STUFF LIVES!

Sculptor Terry Hinde created a spectacular stainless steel model of Hot Stuff in amazing detail.

Hot Stuff lives because Terry incorporated a piece of stainless steel from one of Hot Stuff’s turbo chargers, recovered from the crash site in Iceland, and welded it into the model. The part number identifying the piece from Hot Stuff’s turbo is visible on the tail section of the model.

Sculptor Terry Hinde thePerfectionist

Terry Hinde, the sculptor of the Hot Stuff model, is not only an outstanding sculptor, he is a per-fectionist. Jim told him it proba-bly wouldn’t be necessary to put propellers on Hot Stuff but Terry would have none of that. It had to be perfect! He also came up with the idea of having the propellers spring loaded so that, if someone reached up and tried to pull down on a blade a spring would allow the propeller to turn.

It’s difficult to believe the model was built entirely by hand. Terry used a 1/48 scale plastic model of a B-24D to work from and scaled it up to a stainless steel B-24D with an 8 foot wingspan.

Icelandair to transport the Stainless Steel model of

Hot Stuff to Iceland!The problem of getting the stain-less steel model of Hot Stuff has been solved.

Oli Marteinsson, a retired Icelan-dair executive, has arranged for Icelandair to transport the model from Colorado to Iceland.

Icelandair has been a supporter of the Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Memorial Monument Project from the beginning. The compa-ny transported pieces of Hot Stuff wreckage recovered by Oli, his brother Doddi and Jim to Jim’s home in Austin, Texas. Many of the pieces are on display, or soon will be, at the Veterans Muse-um and Memorial Center in San Diego, CA, the Strategic Air & Space Museum near Omaha, NE,

93rd Bombardment GroupAssociation Award

Jim Lux was surprised and hon-ored to receive an award from the 93rd BG Assoc. last October for his work on the Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Memorial Monu-ment Project. The award was an-nounced by President Jim Root. Jim was truly honored to receive a beautiful crystal trophy handed to him by Fernley Smith. Fern-ley is an original member of the 93rd BG. He was the pilot of a B-24 Liberator and flew combat mission in Europe during World War II at the age of 18!

and the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Day-ton, OH. Jim continues to work on placing pieces for display in other prominent airplane muse-ums throughout the country.

Hot Stuff model to bedisplayed at KeflavikInternational Airport

Thanks to Fridthor Eydal of Isav-ia Ltd., the Hot Stuff model will be put on display in the lobby at Keflavik International Airport. It will be an obvious attraction and hopefully encourage those who see it to donate to the monu-ment project.

Keflavik International Airport, Keflavik, IcelandMore than 5 million people a year travel through KIA.

KIA was Meeks Field, an American base during World War II. Meeks Field was one of the airfields where Hot Stuff tried to land but couldn’t because of poor visibility.

3rd AnnualJacobson/Hot Stuff

Memorial Golf TournamentThanks to the sponsorship of United Heritage Charity Founda-tion, the support of Roger Beas-ley Mazda and LaRue Architects, this year’s tournament will be bigger and better than ever!

The tournament will take place

The fee per player is $150. Four mulligans for $20 per player may also be purchased on-line or at tournament check-in. If you ex-perience problems with register-ing contact Jim Lux at:hotstuff.memorial@gmail.comH: 512-327-1750C: 512-731-8024

on Monday, June 27, 2016 at Lost Creek Country Club in Austin, Texas. The format will be a two person team scramble. Check-in and practice begins at 11:30 AM with a shotgun start at 1:00 PM. You can register on-line via Pay-Pal or credit card at:

www.b24hotstuff.wikispaces.com

It’s an honor to welcome theUnited Heritage

Charity Foundationas the official sponsor of the 3rd annual

Jacobson/Hot Stuff Memorial Golf Tournament Fund Raiser

June 27, 2018

BIGGER & BETTER

THAN EVER!

FANTASTIC PRIZES!

REGISTER ON-LINE NOW AT:www.b24hotstuff.wikispaces.com

Winners receive a ride in the

Commemorative Air ForceSan Marcos , Texas

Great Prizes for:1st Place2nd Place5th Place10th Place 15th PlaceAnd.......Next to last Place

AdditionalHole-In-One

PrizesTwo Airline TicketsFlat Panel TVSet of Callaway Irons

Auctionand

Silent Auction

Two PersonTeamsLadies

Invited

Before the BelleBook Signing Schedule

Cash Mullen and Betty Byron, authors of Before the Belle, have scheduled book signing sessions in the Central Texas area. Check out the locations on their website at: www.readbyron.com

TheMemorial Monument

Fund Is Now Over

$50,000!DONORS

Johannes Allert MNAncient & Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts MASusan Andrews TNPeter & Joan Asch MILillian Ayars TXJohn Baker TXBank of America (Matching Grant) CABrig. Gen. Richard Baughn TXJim Beck COTom Bednorz TXLaurence & Verna Belair NHLawrence Berman MAG.T. Bjornsson VANick Bohas TXJack Bond TXRaymond & Michelle Bonilla Jr. TXGeorge Boyd TXScott Branson TXBrian & Becky Breece COMike & Conni Brennan TX*Harrell & Jackie Broome MSAaron Buckholtz TXAl and Mattie Buckles NEChris & Sharon Cain COCovenant Land Co. (J.B. Carlson) CO*Peggy Carmen MSClairmont Retirement Community TX*Jan & Robert Clark COLt. Gen. Charles Cleveland ALJM Colaluca & LA Littrell TXDoug & Kathy Compton TXCynthia Coven COCovenant Land Company, Inc. COShannon & Gay Cox TXCharles Cox TXJimmie & Jennifer Craig TXCol. David & Nelda Cravey TX*Dayton Foundation OHMark Davis TXJohn & Suzanne Donatucci TXEric & Domi Ducreau FRANCEJoe & Phyllis Duran CABlaine & Robin Duxbury INDr.Robert & Barbara Emerson TXRay & Alison Ender TX

R.F. Ferguson TXJudy & Albert Figoski TXPatrick Finnegan TXLarry and Janet Flohr NELeland Kizer & Kathy Fourcroy COLes Frazier TXRobert & Joan Gallup TXCarol Gerard WIBruce and Shirley Gerk CORichard Golombeck TXDorris E. Green TXWilliam Gros PADavid Guerra TXHelen Gutfreund AZMarvin Haddock TXJames Han TXThomas & Julia Harris TXBen Harrison TXJohn B. Harris IV TXBenjamin Harry TXWilliam Hawes TXMax Hill TXB.E. and T.D. Hinde COTim and Deborah Hinde COTerry Hinde COKenneth Hodges II COMatt Hood TXMatt Hoover TXWilbur Hopson TXRonald & Charlotte Iberg TXSkot Ingram TXKaylie Ivester TXISAVIA ICELANDThomas & Margaret Jacobs TX*Kevin Jacobson TX*Ronald Jacobson MSLt Gen. Dirk & Betty Jameson TXRay Janes TX*Cecil Johnson MSVic and Jeanna Johnson, Jr. CORobert Jones TXGeorge & Elizabeth Jung NYAl Kainz TXJoseph Keip NJJoe & Ruth Kinnie/KJK Farms COJim Kirschner TXLee Kizer COJames Koch TXJames and Carolyn Kontny COL7 Computer Parts TXKermit & Nancy Larson TXJames LaRue TXDr. BA & MW Levy TXLarry Little TXHarry Loftis TXRichard and Connie Loos COLost Creek CC Members TXJim & Nancy Lux TXJames Lux TXRobert (Col Rt) & Barbara Madden NERobert Marquette TXJohn & Rayann Marx PAJohn L. Mathews WIMac Mathuna TXBill & Linda McCarley TXJ. and D. McClary COScott Merchen TXAndrew & Marge Meyer TXLeonard Miller CAMilitary Officers Assoc. of America, Austin, TX Chapter TX

John & Barbara Mitchell UTJim Moffett TXPatrick Moore TXGeorge Morrison Sr. MACol. Cassius & Betty Mullen TXAlbert Mundo MARalph & Phyllis Mundy TXDavid and Cheryl Nein COSteven and Anita Nein COMichael Oliver TXTom Olson, Jr. COThomas Owens TXRobert Peckham TXBill Pierce TXDavid Pierce NCPökkun &Flutningar ehf ICELANDCarl Pollock TXRon Poole TXKurt Reedy TXRobert & Wanda Reetz TXDr. William Robertson TXJohn & Pat Roche FLBob & Terri Rodreguez TX*Rondeau Family CA & AZRothwell Dave TXPatrick & Yvonne Ryan TXPeter & Colleen Sanderson COBill & Joanne Sargent COMichael Sellers NYDonald Schneider/Schneider Farms CO*Sarah Helene Sharp FLFrank Sicuro TXBob Spurck TXRobert Spurck, Jr. TXScott Stewart NEFraye Stokes TXPaul Stroich, Jr. AZVernon Swaim WASamuel Mirrop & Barbara Szalay TXKenneth Taplin CAGeorge Taylor TXMats Tedeneryd SWEDENLeon & Joan Thomas TXTony Thompson TXRobert Tresch TXBlair Tolleson TX*Theodore Totman VA*Kelly Jacobson Treybig TXTerrance & Sylvia Turner CAHeath Twitchell RICharles Thompson TXUnited Heritage Corp. TXBrig. Gen. Regis Urshler NEKristine & Dwitt Vanwisse TXMaj. Russell Vanderlugt NYLynn & Scott Vosler COJames & Vicki Warren TXWiesner DF TXJim White TXLynn and Scott Vosler CORobert Weeks TXJon West IABud & Charla Winnett MOJoe & Beth Woods TXRita Woodlief CADF & LA Wiesner TXCharles & Josephine Wiegand TX

* Family of Hot Stuff Crew &/or passengers

Thank you for your donation.

93rd Bombardment Group Assoc.995 Cottonwood LaneGlenwood Springs, Colorado 81601

5. Refer everyone to the Hot Stuff web site at:www.b24hotstuff.wikispaces.com

6. Brochures and a PowerPoint presen-tation are available for making presenta-tions.

7. Jim Lux is available for Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews fund raiser presentations in the Central Texas area.

8. Contact Information:

Jim Lux

You Can Help RaiseFunds For The Hot Stuff

Gen. AndrewsMemorial Monument

1. Send this newsletter to everyone on your email list and ask for their help.

2. Every donation of $250 or more will receive a copy of “Ted’s Travel-ling Circus,” a comprehensive histo-ry of the 93rd Bomb Group.

3. Donations are tax deductible.

4. Send donations to:Attn: Nancy Stranger

H: 512-327-1750C: 512-731-8024hotstuff.memorial@gmail.com

If you know of anyone who would like to receive the Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews newsletter, with their permission, please send Jim their email address.

Suggestions and comments on how to improve the newsletter are welcome.

Thank you, Jim Lux

World War II Memorial Park Concept.

Oli and Doddi Marteinsson suggested the site become a World War II Memorial Park with plaques along side the Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews monument representing several WW II crash sites in the area.

Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Memorial Monument Concept

Need a tax deduction in 2016?

Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews Memorial FundDonation Form(Print and Cut Out)

Name _______________________________ Address _____________________________ City ________________________________ State __________________ Zip __________ Email _______________________________ Make check payable to: 93rd BG Association Send to: 93rd Bombardment Group Association 995 Cottonwood Lane Glenwood Springs, Colorado 81601

You will receive a copy ofTed’s Travelling Cir-cus with a donation of $250 or more. This rare book is a comprehen-sive history of the 93rd Bombardment Group in World War II

Donations may be made through PayPal on the Hot Stuff/Gen. Andrews website at: www.b24hotstuff.wikispaces.com

Or by mail

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