From Moses Lake, the crew moved east to Kearney Army Air Field in middle Nebraska for additional Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Training. Kearney was a heavy bombardment processing center, a "staging area" where the crews were prepared for overseas duty....
Yesterday, February 9, 2009, I rode on theLiberty Belle, a restored World War II B-17. It was an amazing opportunity, an experience of a lifetime, to visualize what their plane must have looked like to the crew of our Dad's B-17, the Liberty Lady....
Moses Lake Army Air Base is where combat crews were assembled and given their initial flight and gunnery training in preparation for going overseas....
By 1943, the USAAF was training bombardiers to use the Norden Bombsight. This piece of equipment was a carefully guarded secret and crews were instructed to destroy the bombsight if forced down in or near enemy territory. ...
Lt. Allen received his bombardier wings upon graduation from the Victorville, California Bombardier School. All students at the Carlsbad school, the only one of its kind, are commissioned bombardiers who come to Carlsbad to receive a special intensified course in 'dead reckoning' navigation. ...
The Bombardier Training School that Herman went to after he left Sequoia Field was located at Victorville Army Air Field, later called George Air Force Base, just north of Victorville, California. ...
Propwash is the title of the Sequoia Field class books. That is where I found Herman's poem that explained why he didn't become a pilot....