Mästermyr A or Mästermyr B
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....
10
May
05
May
Churchill War Rooms
Most of Churchill's War Room is just as it was back then. A few rooms have been faithfully recreated and all give a sense of simplicity and sparseness. They only contained what was needed to make critical decisions...
04
May
Park Close
All we knew was that in 1944 my mother Hedvig Johnson lived at "Park Close" in a 5th-floor apartment ...
03
May
Ryder Street
We found the building that housed OSS Counterespionage, known as X-2, during World War II ...
01
May
The Grand Tour
Today is Day 1 of "The Grand Tour" for my son and I as we trace the World War II footsteps of my parents....
26
Apr
Citizens of London
Favorite (2010) Author Lynne Olson writes about the World War II years in London, in particular "the Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest hours."...
16
Apr
Captain Walter Irving Lawson
Walter Irving Lawson already had his pilot’s license when he joined the 99th Flying Pursuit Squadron, better known to all of us as the Tuskegee Airmen....
16
Apr
Green for Danger
(1946) This British murder mystery takes place in a rural World War II hospital during the V-1 "Doodlebug" bombardments. ...
03
Apr
The Lost Weekend
(1945) An alcoholic writer can think of nothing except where he will get his next drink....
01
Apr
Roosevelt Warm Springs Cottages
The story of FDR’s refusal to be defeated by the paralysis of polio is well known....