thank you from cindy stillwell. where were most of your flights to and from? when we went to italy of our early flying was from an airfield. near i'm gonna listen name wants to slip away from me the end. in southern italy and then later we moved to the adriatic side near the fauji area of italy and that's where we did the escort. or from the forge area of italy the bombers had moved out of north africa into southern italy. we were just north of them. so we as they took off and formed up we could joint meet them and join them at designated there is a flew toward their targets and that course was north to well from from italy and northwest to southern france to north olive, germany. and then of course eastern czechoslovakia and all the way over to the enzo beach and in romanian, so that was the setup at the time from from bases in italy. but that prime base was in the poja area of italy. great. thank you. from david trail he asks what selection criteria were there for the tuskegee airmen when you joined select that's interesting. i'm not sure. i have the answer.