The featured speaker at this year's Memorial Day in Roswell, GA, was Christina Olds. She wrote a book about her father, Robin Olds. Her father! I perked up right away. Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds. ...
Seventy years ago today, March 6, 1944, the B-17 Liberty Lady force-landed on the Swedish island of Gotland just hours after the first large scale daylight raid on the city of Berlin. ...
The 306th Bomb Group Historical Association held its annual reunion the weekend of October 3-6 in New Orleans. Our hotel was just a short walk from the National WWII Museum....
When my sisters, brother, and I (Siblings in Sweden) arrived on the Swedish island of Gotland our mission was to visit the crash site of our Dad's B-17 Liberty Lady....
Last weekend the B-17 Memphis Belle came to town! This is not the original Memphis Belle, the B-17 piloted by Robert K. Morgan that was celebrated so highly in 1943 for finishing 25 missions. That plane is grounded and being lovingly restored in Dayton, Ohio....
When we visited the site of the forced landing of the Liberty Lady B-17, we had two possible crash sites: Mästermyr A or Mästermyr B....
Today is Day 1 of "The Grand Tour" for my son and I as we trace the World War II footsteps of my parents....
(1969) In 1943 the 8th Air Force planned a daring 1000 plane bombing raid on an industrial target deep into Germany....
(2011) Novel by Bobbie Ann Mason about a B-17 crew shot down over Nazi occupied Belgium. The pilot returns decades later to the scene of the crash in order to reconnect with the members of the French underground who helped him escape....
This past weekend, I was inspired to go back through my photographs of the Liberty Lady B-17. Most of them have come from the scrapbooks of our Dad, Herman F. Allen, the bombardier. Several have come from other crew members or their families....