04 Mar

Luftwaffe is the name for the German Air Force. The two German fighter planes that Herman mentions in his diary are the "FW" (Focke-Wulf Fw 190) and the ME 109. ( Messerschmitt Bf 109.)...

03 Mar

On Sunday, December 5th, 1943, Herman was awakened for his 2nd missions at 2:30 am. The target for the day was the factories at the airport near La Rochelle, deep in France, southwest of Paris....