As a B17 lead pilot explained, there were some decisions you could make that would give your crew a better chance of survival, but there was no decision you could make that would guarantee your survival. It was like playing Russian roulette....
This week, I found a tiny photograph of a plane in my Dad's scrapbook from World War II Sweden. I blew it up and discovered some creative nose art -- a scantily-clad blonde!...
Sadly, the last living crew member of the LIBERTY LADY B-17 passed away in January....
Finally, Frank Gleason of Marietta, GA, has received his OSS Congressional Gold Medal!...
As I watched the Rev. Billy Graham’s funeral, his final crusade, on Friday, March 2nd, I heard his daughter say, “everyone’s got a Billy Graham Story. I thought, yes, I have a Billy Graham story too....
A new trailer for the book Liberty Lady: A True Story of Love and Espionage in WWII Sweden...
On the 19th day of January 1945, the Dagens Nyheter in Stockholm published an article about the marriage of my parents, Americans Herman Allen and Hevig Johnsson (sic), pictured with Count Folke Bernadotte, nephew to the king of Sweden....
In 1938, at the age of 15, Eric G. Newhouse left his native Austria to escape Nazi persecution. Even before he became an American citizen, he wrote the Secretary of War, requesting permission to enlist in the Army....
The National Library of Sweden, Kungliga Biblioteket (translated “Royal Library”) is located in the heart of Stockholm in the area Humlegården. ...