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33 Heavy Bomber Missions With 576th Sq 392nd B Gp 2nd Air Division 8th Air Force And Then 10 Months In Stalag Luft Iii Forced March Box Car Ride And Stalag Vii A
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Book Synopsis 33 Heavy Bomber Missions with 576th Sq. 392nd B. Gp. 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force and Then 10 Months in Stalag Luft III, Forced March, Box Car Ride and Stalag VII-A by : Harry Everett Thomas
Download or read book 33 Heavy Bomber Missions with 576th Sq. 392nd B. Gp. 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force and Then 10 Months in Stalag Luft III, Forced March, Box Car Ride and Stalag VII-A written by Harry Everett Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Interrogation to Liberation: a Photographic Journey Stalag Luft Iii by : Marilyn Jeffers Walton
Download or read book From Interrogation to Liberation: a Photographic Journey Stalag Luft Iii written by Marilyn Jeffers Walton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, 300,000 United States Army Air Corps airmen were shot down. Of that number, 51,000 were prisoners of war or listed as missing in action. Bombardiers, positioned in the vulnerable bombardiers compartment at the front of the aircraft, were in high demand. The authors fathers were two such bombardiers, one on a B-17 and the other on a B-24. Like so many of the post-war generation, the authors traveled on their own emotional journeys to reconstruct their fathers WWII experiences. Their fathers fought in the flak-ridden blue battlefield, and like thousands of other airmen shot out of the sky, became prisoners of war. They would endure deprivation, loneliness, and great peril. Held at Stalag Luft III, where the Great Escape of movie fame took place, they, along with the British, were eventually force marched 52-miles in the dead of winter to Spremberg, Germany, and loaded onto overcrowded, filthy, boxcars, the Americans to be taken to Stalag VIIA in Moosburg, Germany, or to Stalag XIII-D in N rnberg. Languishing until their liberation in barbaric conditions with nearly 120,000 international POWs, they witnessed the death throes of the Third Reich. With many sons and daughters trying to explore the wartime histories of their loved ones, the authors supply crucial information and insight regarding the World War II POW experience in Europe. Often times, by necessity, that experience reflects the co-existence and tenuous relationship with the Germans holding them. In this book, there are stories that up until now have not been heard, and there are hundreds of pictures, many previously unseen, illustrating the prisoners plight. This book is a documentation of riveting history and a chance to vicariously live the war, told through their voices --echoes now fading with time. Their sacrifices to ensure precious freedom should never be forgotten.
Download or read book Mission 376 written by Ivo de Jong and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minute-by-minute chronicle of a single Eighth Air Force bombing mission in World War II Dramatic story of how B-17s and B-24s bombed targets inside Germany Captures the courage and confusion of aerial combat Details the first combat use of remote-controlled glide bombs by the U.S. Army Air Force Insert contains color aircraft drawings
Book Synopsis Hell's Belle by : Randall L. Rasmussen
Download or read book Hell's Belle written by Randall L. Rasmussen and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was December 3, 1943, and American warplanes were on assignment over Nazi Germany. Sergeant William Rasmussen was the ball turret gunner on the Hell’s Belle, a B-17 heavy bomber. During one of its missions, the Belle was shot down and the captured American flyers were sent to the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17B. In Stalag the American prisoners of war had to deal with the harsh rules imposed by the German Commandant as well as deplorable living conditions: filth, bitter cold, starvation and disease. Told through the eyes of one young flyer, the book has non-stop action, emotion and humor, and captures the upbeat and undefeatable spirit of America’s finest young men who served the United States during WWII. RANDALL L. RASMUSSEN, M.D. used his father’s memoirs, “From a B-17 to Stalag 17B,” as the basis for this book. Dr. Rasmussen also explored William Rasmussen’s notes, the verbal history that he recorded at the local library, research material, and recollections of the narratives he heard his father tell so many times over the years. William Rasmussen was a popular guest speaker at press clubs, library clubs and service organizations in Michigan’s lower peninsula near his home. His narratives were enjoyed immensely since he had a special gift of being able to captivate audiences as they shared his experiences flying over Nazi Germany and being a prisoner of war.
Download or read book Kriegie written by Kenneth W. Simmons and published by New York, T. Nelson [1960]. This book was released on 1960 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth W. Simmons was a bombardier on board one of the B-24 liberators of 389th Bombardment Group stationed in Europe during the Second World War. As the war ground to a close he had the sheer bad luck to be shot down in October 1944 near Bad Kreuznach and was captured and made prisoner of war. In this book he gives a vivid description of the life of POWs in the American section of Stalag Luft III (in what is now Poland) during the final months of the war, ending with the winter forced-march away from the camp, escaping the advancing Russian troops, and eventually being liberated.
Book Synopsis Oral History Interview with John Ray Lemons by : John R. Lemons
Download or read book Oral History Interview with John Ray Lemons written by John R. Lemons and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with John Ray Lemons, tax consultant and Army Air Forces veteran (702nd Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a crew member on a B-24 in the European Theater; and his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. Conscription into the Army, December, 1942; basic training, Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas; transfer to the Air Force, February, 1943, and further basic training, Miami Beach, Florida; aerial gunnery training, Fort Myers, Florida, 1943; aircraft mechanic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; crew assignment, Kerns, Utah, 1943-44; combat crew training, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1944; ocean voyage to England aboard the Queen Elizabeth, June, 1944; assignment to the 702nd Bomb Squadron at Tibenham; base living conditions; his description of the war damage in London; his first mission, August 6, 1944, to Hamburg; comments about flak; procedures on a typical mission from beginning to end; mission to Dessau, Germany, August 16, 1944; his plane being shot down on a mission to Kassel, Germany, September 27, 1944, and his subsequent capture; initial hostility of German civilians; Dulag Luft, Wetzlar, Germany, October, 1944, and interrogation; Stalag Luft IV, Gross Tychow, Germany, October 10, 1944-February 1, 1945; comments about prison camp life; Red Cross parcels; evacuation of Stalag Luft IV and train trip to Stalag Luft XII-D, Nürnberg, Germany, February 1-7, 1945; evacuation of Stalag Luft XII-D and forced march to Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany, April 4-16, 1945; liberation on April 29, 1945; Camp Lucky Strike, May 8-June 7, 1945; postwar adjustments and career.
Book Synopsis Oral History Interview with Robert J. Widmer, Sr by : Robert J. Widmer
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Robert J. Widmer, Sr written by Robert J. Widmer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with Robert J. Widmer, Sr., Army Air Forces veteran (738th Bomb Squadron, 304th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-24 pilot in the European theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans. His youth during the Great Depression in Toledo, Ohio; college at the University of Toledo and Columbia University; his decision to enlist in the Aviation Cadets, December, 1941; basic training, Santa Ana, California, August, 1942; primary flight training, Oxnard, California, September, 1942; basic flight training, Taft, California, January, 1943; advanced flight training, Stockton, California, March, 1943; B-25 training, Mather Field, Sacramento, California, June, 1943; B-17 training, Hobbs, New Mexico, July, 1943; B-24 training, Tucson, Arizona, August, 1943; B-24 crew training, McCook, Nebraska, fall, 1943; assignment to Italy, December, 1943; reminiscences about various missions; his bomber being shot down on a mission to Budapest, Hungary; Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany; evacuation and forced march to Moosburg, Germany; liberation by General George S. Patton's troops. Appendix consists of photocopies of Certificate of Consent (one leaf), various military documents (eight leaves), letters (four leaves), plane crash eyewitness statements (two leaves), oral report from interviewee about crash (five leaves), photocopy of articles from the Columbus dispatch (one leave), photocopy of USAF investigation into crash (three leaves), location of hospital in Budapest (one leaf), maps (two leaves), photocopies of parts of books (twenty leaves), one drawing (one leaf), miscellaneous information (eight leaves).
Download or read book An Alien Sky written by Andy Wiseman and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary RAF bomber who survived the infamous Stalag 3 POW camp recounts his WWII experiences in this military memoir. Growing up in Berlin just as Adolf Hitler was coming to power, Andrew Wiseman escaped to Poland with is family when he was thirteen. He later made his way to England where he joined the Royal Air Force, training first as a pilot and then as an air bomber in South Africa. Joining No. 466 squadron, he flew Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers in a handful of operations before being shot down in Occupied France. Wiseman spent the next year as a prisoner of war in Nazi prison camp Stalag Luft III, where he used his knowledge of Russian, Polish and German to act as a camp interpreter. Taking part in the prison break known as the Great Escape, Wiseman acted as a scrounger for the X committee who dug the tunnel. Moved from camp to camp, he was one of those forced into the Long March when the Germans attempting to escape the Russian advance. He later played a key role in avoiding bloodshed when the Russians refused to allow British and Norwegian prisoners to return home—a role for which he was later recognized by the King of Norway. Co-written with the acclaimed aviation historian Sean Feast, Andrew Wiseman’s wartime memoir is a vivid chronicle of courage, service and survival through the Second World War.
Book Synopsis Oral History Interview with Ira L. Simpson by : Ira L. Simpson
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Ira L. Simpson written by Ira L. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with Ira L. Simpson, Army Air Forces veteran (566th Bomb Squadron, 389th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-24 navigator in the European Theater during World War II; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1943; pre-flight training, Santa Ana, California, 1943; his selection for navigator training, Santa Ana; aerial gunnery training, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1943; advanced navigation training, Hondo, Texas, 1943-44; combat crew training, Charleston, South Carolina, 1944; his description of the flight characteristics of the B-24; the flight to England and assignment to the 339th Bomb Group at Hethel, 1944; his first mission, October 1, 1944, to Hanau, Germany; base living conditions; off-base social activities; German fighters and flak; Ardennes Offensive and the Battle of the Bulge, December, 1944-January, 1945; forced landing due to flak damage on a mission to Magdeburg, Germany, January 3, 1945; his plane being shot down and his capture, February 14, 1945; interrogation; train trip from Holland to Germany; solitary confinement and further interrogation at Dulag Luft, Frankfurt, Germany; processing at Wetzlar, Germany; incarceration at Stalag Luft XIII-D in Nürnberg, Germany; his description of the physical layout of the POW camp; POW camp life; his bouts with mental depression; internal camp organization among the POWs; Red Cross parcels; relationship between POWs and German guards; forced march from Nürnberg to Stalag VII-A at Moosburg, Germany, April, 1945; living conditions at Stalag VII-A; liberation on April 29, 1945; his postwar career in the U.S. Air Force.
Book Synopsis Oral History Interview with Robert Weinberg by : Robert Weinberg
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Robert Weinberg written by Robert Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with Robert Weinberg, Army Air Forces veteran (776th Bomb Squadron, 464th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-24 navigator; also his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; Cadet Classification Center, San Antonio, Texas, 1943; basic training, Lackland Field, San Antonio, 1943; pre-flight training, Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, 1943; navigation school, Hondo Army Air Field, Hondo, Texas, 1943; crew assignment and bomber transition training, Pocatello, Idaho, 1943; assignment to the 464th Bomb Group at Gioia del Colle, Italy, 1944; transfer to Patanella, Italy, June 1, 1944; mission to Wiener Neustadt, Austria, May 10, 1944; comments about the Tuskegee Airmen (99th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group); mission to the Pardubice, Czechoslovakia, synthetic oil facility and the downing of his plane, August 24, 1944; his capture by the Hitler Youth; initial incarceration in Czechoslovakia; harassment by German civilians; interrogations at Oberursel, Germany; Stalag Luft III, Labor Day, 1944; prison camp routine; forced march and train trip to Stalag Luft VII-A, Moosburg, Germany, January 27-February 12, 1945; living conditions at Stalag Luft VII-A; excerpts from his prison camp diary; liberation, April 25, 1945.
Book Synopsis Oral History Interview with Robert Bruce Kilmer by : Robert B. Kilmer
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Robert Bruce Kilmer written by Robert B. Kilmer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with Robert Bruce Kilmer, Army Air Forces veteran (547th Bomb Squadron, 389th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II; also his experiences with the French Resistance and as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. His educational background; his reaction to the Pearl Harbor attack; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, April, 1942; basic training, Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 1942; primary flight training, Sikeston, Missouri, 1942; basic flight training, Majors Field, Greenville, Texas, 1942; advanced flight training, Pampa, Texas, 1942-43; B-17 transition training, Windover, Utah, 1943; stationing at Grafton Underwood, England, 1943; his description of preparations for a bombing mission; post-mission debriefings; description of missions and his getting shot down, October 14, 1943; rescue by the French Resistance and his six-month experience operating with them; capture by the Gestapo and incarceration at Fresnes Prison, Paris; solitary confinement and interrogation at Wiesbaden, Germany; transfer to Dulag Luft, Frankfurt, Germany, for further interrogation by the Luftwaffe, 1943; transfer to Stalag Luft-III, Sagan, Germany, 1943; physical description of Stalag Luft-III and his compound; daily life in the POW camp; value of Red Cross parcels; evacuation and forced march to Nürnberg, Germany, January, 1945; forced march to Moosburg, Germany, 1945; liberation and reunion with his brother at Moosburg; processing at Camp Lucky Strike, Le Havre, France, and return to the States by troopship.
Book Synopsis Fated to Survive by : William P. Maher
Download or read book Fated to Survive written by William P. Maher and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis War Eagles by : Michael Norwood McDowell
Download or read book War Eagles written by Michael Norwood McDowell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oral History Interview with Thomas Richard Young by : Thomas R. Young
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Thomas Richard Young written by Thomas R. Young and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with Thomas Richard Young, artist and Army Air Forces veteran (463rd Bomb Group, 774th Bomb Squadron, 15th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot and a prisoner-of-war in the European Theater during World War II. Basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, January, 1943; primary flight training, Mira Loma Air Base, Oxnard, California, 1943; basic flight training, Mirana, Arizona, 1943; advanced flight training, Marfa, Texas, 1943-44; B-17 training, Roswell, New Mexico, 1944; crew assignment at Lincoln, Nebraska, 1944; crew training at Sioux City, Iowa, 1944; trans-Atlantic flight to England, 1944; assignment to the 15th Air Force, Foggia, Italy; living conditions at Foggia; experiences with the Tuskegee Airmen; various missions to Munich, Germany; his account of his B-17 being shot down on the nineteenth mission, November 16, 1944; details of his capture by Italian troops; interrogation by German personnel and solitary confinement; Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany, December, 1944; evacuation of Stalag Luft III and forced march to Spremberg, Germany, January-February, 1945; Nürnberg, Germany, 1945; forced march to Moosburg, Germany; liberation by 3rd Army troops. Appendix includes a photocopy of a drawing titled, "North Compound, Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany, January, 1945."
Book Synopsis Oral History Interview with Earl Sharp by : Sharp. Earl
Download or read book Oral History Interview with Earl Sharp written by Sharp. Earl and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interview with Earl Sharp, Army Air Forces veteran (533rd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force), concerning his experiences as a B-17 pilot and a prisoner-of-war in the European Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Air National Guard (154th Observation Squadron), 1939; enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; pre-flight training, Maxwell Field, Alabama, 1942; primary flight training, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1942; basic flight training, Newport, Arkansas, 1942; advanced flight training, Blytheville, Arkansas, 1942-43; transition to B-17s, Sebring, Florida, 1943; formation of his combat crew, Pyote, Texas, 1943; additional combat crew training, Dalhart, Texas, 1943; journey from Grand Island, Nebraska, to the British Isles, 1943; assignment to the 533rd Bomb Squadron, 1944; his first mission, January 30, 1944; his detailed description of the mission when his plane was shot down, May 19, 1944; hospitalization for battle wounds; transfer to the interrogation center at Dulag Luft; Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany, 1944-45; evacuation from Stalag Luft III and march to Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany, 1945; liberation.
Book Synopsis The Territorial Air Force by : Frances Louise Wilkinson
Download or read book The Territorial Air Force written by Frances Louise Wilkinson and published by Air World. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What is almost certainly the definitive account of the Auxiliary Air Force, the Special Reserve and the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.” —Paul Nixon, Army Ancestry Research To date, little has been written about the Territorial Air Force as a voluntary military organization and no sustained analysis of its recruitment and social composition undertaken. Made up of three different parts, the Auxiliary Air Force, the Special Reserve and the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, these three separate and different groups have not featured significantly in existing literature. Along with a history of the Territorial Air Force, this book includes an analysis of how the volunteers joined, and what kinds of men were accepted into the organizations as both pilots and officers. The influences class and social status had on recruitment in the run up to the Second World War are also discussed. There is an exploration of the key differences between the Auxiliary squadrons and the SR squadrons, as well as the main reasons for the idea of merging the SR squadrons into the AAF squadrons. Briefly discussed are the newly formed University Air Squadrons that were set up to promote “air mindedness” and to stimulate an interest and research on matters aeronautical. Military voluntarism continued to play a key role in the defense of twentieth-century Britain, and class ceased to be the key determining factor in the recruitment of officers as the organizations faced new challenges. Within both the AAF and the RAFVR the pre-war impression of a gentlemen’s flying club finally gave way to a more meritocratic culture in the post-war world.
Author :Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum Publisher :Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN 13 :9780971978416 Total Pages :262 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (784 download)
Book Synopsis Clergymen and Chiefs by : Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum
Download or read book Clergymen and Chiefs written by Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum first visited the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. After surveying the land and finding it a stark contrast to the fertile fields of South Carolina's lowcountry, he understood why, after generations, his forbears had chosen to leave the Scottish isle and cross the Atlantic. However, over the next two decades he made annual visits to Scotland and slowly uncovered the rich history of the MacQueen and Macfarlane families.
