13th Combat Wing Commanders
13th Combat Wing Commanders 3rd Air Division Commanders (left to right) 3rd Air Division: MG Anderson, MG Partridge, MG LeMay 13th Combat Wing: (top) Col. Wittan (KIA 13 Sep 44), BG Huglin, BG Kessler 13th Combat Wing: (bottom) Col. Harding, BG Forrest (KIA 13 Jun 43), Col. Harris 95th Bomb Group: Col. Trusdale, Col. Shuck, Col. Gilger, BG Gerhart […]
Bob Wolff’s Story
Four 100th B-17s over the Alps, top “Cowboy” Roane in LADEN MAIDEN, 2nd from top (smaller image) Henry Henington in HORNY, center Bob Wolff in WOLF PACK, lower “Bucky” Egan and “Crankshaft” Cruikshank in MUGWUMP. (The captions on the picture are incorrect – 100th BG Photo Archives) The war that we were expecting to engulf the […]
Piccadilly Lily
by Paul M. Andrews & David Aiken After completing over on hundred missions in less than fourteen months of operations, Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker’s Eighth Air Force stood very near the cusp of greatness. At Eaker’s disposal were twenty bombardment groups, comprising 915 heavy bombers and 839 combat crews. Operations could now be conducted […]
John A. Miller
S/SGT JOHN A. MILLER S/SGT JOHN A. MILLER COMPLETED 35 MISSIONS ON 17 JULY 44 AND HAD HIT “BIG B” SIX TIMES, 5 WITH LT LAWRENCE TOWNSEND’S CREW. HE HAD SEEN COL. KELLY’S SHIP “BL0W UP”, HAD FLOWN THE FIRST RUSSIAN SHUTTLE MISSION, WAS CREDITED WITH SHOOTING DOWN AN ME 410, WAS AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED […]
Crew Diaries
Document: Source: Personal Diary S/Sgt Donald A. Becker War Experiences S/Sgt Leo J. Bianchi Bowman Diary Maj Marvin S. Bowman War Diary S/Sgt Paul J. Carbone The Promise of His Youth Lt Thomas Cryan (Jill DeVito, author) Mission Diary S/Sgt James Hendrix 35 Times Lt Keith W. Lamb The Jesse Wofford B-17 Crew S/Sgt […]
Mission Palm Springs
By Mike Faley Splasher Six Volume 35, Winter 2004, No. 4 Cindy Goodman, Editor Close This Window Mission Order: No 3 100th Bomb Group (H) Mini Reunion Date: Jan 15, 2005 Target: Palm Springs, California Briefing: 1500-2400 hrs 14/01/05 Start Engines: 0700hrs Take Off: 1000 hrs IP: 1300hrs Strike Report: 1330hrs Return: 1700hrs Debriefing: 1800hrs […]
A B-17 Story
The Collings Foundation flies across the U.S. for nine months every year with a B-17 Flying Fortress and the only flyable B-24 Liberator. It is their way of keeping the memory of the brave crews who fought and won the war for freedom in the forties, and the magnificent aircraft that allowed them to do […]
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