31 Jan

Sequoia Field is in Visalia, California, is where Herman was sent for flight training in order to become a pilot, Things didn't quite work out....

29 Jan

Santa Ana Army Air Base (SAAAB) was a huge classification and preflight center on the west coast where new Aviation Cadets were indoctrinated into military life. ...

29 Jan

I must now give credit to the website and message board at www.ArmyAirForces.com. It was here in 2008 that I first found Mattias from Sweden searching for information about the Liberty Lady....

On March 18, 1942, four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) ...

27 Jan

I saw Herman's flight jacket this weekend. The back of the jacket has a picture of an airplane and the name "Liberty Lady." ...

26 Jan

(2006) James Bradley writes about the Battle of Iwo Jima after discovering a box of papers left behind by his father, one of the flag raisers....

23 Jan

The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns....

22 Jan

In late 2007, the Roswell Rotary Club voted to undertake a huge new project. We began to raise money to fly World War II Veterans to see the World War II Memorial. ...

21 Jan

I want to go ahead and post the names of the Liberty Lady crew who flew with Herman on March 6, 1944. These airmen flew out of Thurleigh Air Field, 306th Bomber Group, 368th Bomber Squadron....

20 Jan

The B-17's were built by the Boeing Aircraft Company, beginning in 1934. There were several models built until the final and largest model which was the B-17G....

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