Red Cross Girls
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Lt Thomas Cryan
DATE: 18 March 1944 350th Sqdn. A/C#42-39830 “BERLIN PLAYBOY” MISSION: Augsburg/Munich MACR#3234,Micro-flche#1105 CREW: 2nd Lt Paul A.Martin P KIA 1st Lt Thomas Cryan CP KIA 2nd Lt Albert F.Racz […]
S/SGT Lynn V.L. VAN SYCKLE Form 5’s
As Original Ground Personnel in the 456th Sub Depot, Lynn decided he want to get into the action and applied for Flight Status. After completion of training on base, he was sent to 350th BS Spare Gunners Pool where he Flew 25 Missions between Dec 1944 and end of Feb 1945. Would like to know […]
Richard Faulkner receives Purple Heart
World War II veteran in CNY receives Purple Heart 70 years after turning it down By Charley Hannagan Escape and Evasion Story Page II Page III Page IV Page V Auburn, NY -Dick Faulkner’s World War II survival story would make a great movie, on the level of a “Saving Private Ryan.” Faulkner was […]
Wartime Log of Jame Harper “High Life Crew”
A WARTIME LOG A REMEMBRANCE FROM HOME THROUGH THE AMERICAN Y.M.C.A Published by The War Prisoners’ Aid of the Y.M.C.A. Geneva – Switzerland WAR PRISONERS AID AIDE AUX PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE KRIEGSGEFANGENENHILIFE July 7, 1943 Dear Friend, As its title-page indicates, this “War-time Log” is aprt of a special remembrance from the folks at home. […]
Murray, William B. – 1st Lt.
1st Lt. William B. Murray William B. Murray crew (left to right) Standing: Mahlon Hall, California, William Carr, Michigan, Orrin Heinrich, Wisconsin William Kraft, Pennsylvania, William Murray, Pennsylvania, Emory Brandt, Missouri Kneeling: Fred Schillinger, Pennsylvania, Ray Peace, Louisiana, Palmer Hanson, Minnesota, Nick Hamalak, New York 100th BG Photo Archives 1st Lt William B. Murray P […]
Bob Wolff’s History
The war that we were expecting to engulf the U.S. came in an unexpected way, Pearl Harbor. All of us age 18 and over had signed up for the draft, but as time went on I did not want to be drafted, so in March of 1942 I enlisted as Private in the Army Air […]
Lt Ray Harney Sept 28, 1944 Mission
Excerpt “missions by Lothar Günther and destinies “from the book 25 The continuation of the attacks the U.S. Air Force on the German fuel industry THURSDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 1944 STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 652: 1,049 bombers and 724 fighters are dispatched to hit oil and military vehicle factories in Central Germany using PFF […]
D-Day Memoir
By Leonard J. Rosenfeld Splasher Six Volume 32, Spring 2001, No. 1 Cindy Goodman, Editor In June of 1944, I was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, stationed at an airfield amid the farms of Norfolk, England. I was in charge of loading and fusing the bombs on my squadron’s planes, the B-17s, the […]
Sgt. Joseph Adams 350th HQ Detachment
S/Sgt Joseph Adams, original WG on Cecil O. Daniels crew and grounded due to chronic air sickness. “Rosie” assigned him to 350th BS HQ where he was a clerk throughout the remainder of the War. We asked Joe what took place at Squadron Operations before and after a mission since we rarely are able to […]