Journey into Fear
(1943) An American armaments engineer in neutral Turkey gets into trouble with the Nazis....
17
Aug
16
Aug
Liberty Lady
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....
15
Aug
A ride on the Aluminum Overcast
I recently had the opportunity to take a flight on the restored B-17 "Aluminum Overcast" when it was visiting the Waterbury-Oxford CT airport. The plane is one of a handful of B-17s that are still airworthy ...
14
Aug
Stella Polaris
On September 21st and 22nd 1944 four rusting ships left Närpes, a city on the west coast of Finland, and on a stormy night crossed over the Gulf of Bothnia (upper portion of the Baltic Sea) to two cities on Sweden’s eastern coastline, It...
13
Aug
I Was an American Spy
(1951) An American living in the Philippines opens a nightclub under an assumed identity and offers valuable assistance to the Allies and to the Bataan Death March prisoners at Cabanatuan....
11
Aug
The Pawnbroker
Favorite (1965) Rod Steiger plays a Jewish pawnbroker who can't forgive himself for not dying in a German concentration camp with the rest of his family....
11
Aug
The Third Man
Favorite (1949) A writer comes to post-World War II Vienna after he is offered a job by an old friend named Harry Lime....
11
Aug
Blanche’s Café
Since Sweden was a neutral country during World War II, internationals from all over the world congregated there. They would mingle freely in the cafes and restaurants. ...
08
Aug
Dangerously They Live
(1941) After a young lady is in an automobile accident she seems to have amnesia. Then she lets her doctor know that she is actually a British intelligence agent!...