Lt. Col. Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal Awards and Citations
Distinguished Service Cross: 24 May 1945 “For extraordinary heroism in action against the enemy on 3 February 1945 while serving as Air Commander of a Heavy Bombardment Divisions formation attacking the Templehof Marshalling Yards, Berlin, Germany. On this date, while on the bombing run, his aircraft suffered a direct hit by enemy-aircraft fire which inflicted […]
My View From the Tail
by Bob Kazee Tail Gunner on the Willis “Moose” Miller Crew In 1994 while cleaning out some old drawers, I found my diary of missions in World War II. I thought at the time it would be a simple matter to put this in some kind of readable form. But was I surprised to find […]
Assorted Memories of Bill Kennedy
Related Page: Kennedy Crew Page LIGHTING THE BARRACKS STOVE (Did this really happen or did I dream it? Didn’t we have a better way to warm our barracks? I can’t remember what.) So what’s the big deal about lighting a stove?It’s the gasoline we had to use for heating fuel, that’s what. A few yards from our […]
Charles D. Walts A Pilot’s Memories
Walts Crew Information I entered the Army Air Corps in October 1940, and after the war was declared, I was accepted as an Aviation Cadet. I went through all my training, and my final assignment was to B-17s. Our crew arrived in England in September of 1943, and was shot down on my fifth mission […]
Dutch Newspaper Article on Salvo Sal
Lt. William H. McDonald Endstation Opsterland By Ernst Huisman June 5th, 1975 The end of the two Flying Fortresses After the disaster with the Wellington at Terwispel in September 1941 more than two years passed before another aircraft found its end in the municipality Opsterland. In the meantime the American Air Force started to participate […]
Paris Mission, 3 Sep 43
Letter to Edward H. Hovde stating what he recalls happening on 3 Sep 1943 by Gene H. Hogge We had dropped part of our bombs and were heading for the airport to drop the rest of them when we were hit and on fire. We fell several thousand feet or dived to put the fire […]
Pacific POW
Data from John P. Hunter of the 351st, concerning a letter of his close friend Arnold A. Bocksel to “Boxie’s” POW comrade James Phillips’s mother in August 17th , 1946. It is impossible not to note that it is dated on the 3rd Anniversary of the 100th famous Regensburg – North Africa shuttle mission. …pw […]
Bowman Diary Page 10
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 This is the diary of Major Marvin Bowman as compiled by Paul West. Jan Riddling, 100th Bomb Group Historian, reformatted this version in July 2003. April 4, 1945 The 100th returned to Kiel with the […]
Bowman Diary Page 09
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 EYEWITNESS: “A/C 43-37521 was attacked by an ME 262 at 1109 hours,5240N, 1200E and the left stabilizer broke off. A/C was last seen going down into contrails under control with E/A making another attack. “ […]
Bowman Diary Page 08
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 This is the diary of Major Marvin Bowman as compiled by Paul West. Jan Riddling, 100th Bomb Group Historian, reformatted this version in July 2003. Lead Bombardier (Actually the Deputy lead as the Lead was […]