Dwight Eisenhower’s Address to D-Day Forces
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE SOLDIERS, SAILORS AND AIRMEN OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave […]
Christmas in a POW Camp
by Sgt. Robert Grimes CHRISTMAS REVERIE IN A GERMAN PRISON STALAG LUFT IV 1944 Silvery moonbeams infiltrate the boarded windows of my prison room, Falling gently across the faces of my slumbering comrades, Like ghostly fingers of an Omnipresent God splashing His love and benediction across the barren walls and into each sad and hurting […]
Letter to Ron Leigh from Bill Carleton
Letter to Mr. Ron Leigh of 52 Grosvenor Way, Horwich BL6 8DJ England 1112 E. Eckman South Bend, IN August 5, 1996 Dear Ron, We did have, as I recall, and Armament Officer who had the nick-name of “Bolt Stud” and his Spaniel dog was called “Sear – Spring,” I suppose you could say they […]
J. E. Ferroggiaro Data
Data from Thomas Sarbaugh October, 1996 AIRCRAFT OF SPANISH CIVIL WAR VETERANS PROJECT: BOEING B-17F BOMBERS OF THE 350TH BOMB SQUADRON, (“BLOODY”) 100TH BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (H), USAAF, BASED AT Thorpe Abbotts , England, IN WHICH LINCOLN BATTALION SCOUT JEROME E. “JERRY” FERROGGIARO FLEW AS A GUNNER , 1943. On August 17, 1943, the 8th AAF launched it’s famous […]
The Bombers
by Sarah Chruchill Gleaming and proud in the morning sky Or lying awake in bed at night I hear them pass on their outward flight I feel the mass of metal and guns Delicate instruments, deadweight tons Awkward, slow, bomb racks full Staining away from downward pull Straining away from home and base And try […]
Airman’s Account of 18 Mar 44 Berlin Mission
INTRODUCTION Merrill Jensen’s crew was assembled in Lincoln NE after earning their wings at various flying schools. We were then sent to Rapid City SD where we spent the fall of 1944 learning to operate a B-17 aircraft and how to work as a crew. We returned to Lincoln for overseas processing during the week […]
Robert Rosenthal Honored
Lt. Colonel Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal Jewish-American Hall of Fame Honors an American Hero It is appropriate, as we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, that Lt. Col. Robert Rosie Rosenthal, now a healthy 88 years young, has been chosen as the distinguished honoree of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame. Former […]
Donald A. Becker Diary
(2nd Lt. Bernard L. Painter Crew) 2nd Lt Bernard L. Painter P POW 21-Mar-45 PLAUEN / RUHLAND 2nd Lt Charles W. Higginbotham CP KIA 21-Mar-45 PLAUEN / RUHLAND 2nd Lt Daniel Marin NAV KIA 21-Mar-45 PLAUEN / RUHLAND S/Sgt Herbert Singer TOG KIA 21-Mar-45 PLAUEN / RUHLAND S/Sgt Arthur B. MacNeil ROG KIA 21-Mar-45 PLAUEN […]
Corporal Richard Blenz
Radar Counter Measures Repair and Maintenance I was drafted in March 1943 after my first semester of college. Did basic and was sent to the A. S. T. P. program. A chance to get a college degree and a commission. Finished the first semester and was warned in a secret meeting held by the commander […]
James H. Wright, Jr. – Service Diary
Albert E. Trommer Crew Page Entries : May 29, 1943 – September 9, 1944 Diary provided by Melinda Newman, James H. Wright’s granddaughter May 29, 1943 – Kirtland Field I start here because it seems that my life in the Army really starts on this day. I say it starts today because I complete my […]