After his B-17 force-landed in Sweden on March 6, 1944, my father, bombardier Herman F. Allen, spent the rest of the year in Stockholm working in the office of the Military Air Attache. One evening, he met the beautiful singer, Rosita Serrano. ...
Whenever an American airman escaped or evaded capture in Denmark or Norway, he would be taken to the Legation in Stockholm to be questioned by the American Air Attache and his aides, one of which was my father....
A year or so ago, Joakim, a gentleman from Sweden, sent me a 1943 luggage label from the Hotell Siljansborg! Out of the blue! ...
Sgt. Carl A. Heuser was the engineer and top turret gunner on the Liberty Lady B-17. He was born in Germany, and his nickname was "Tiny" ...
In 2011 I posted a photograph that I found in Herman F. Allen's (my Dad's) wartime scrapbook. A group of mostly Americans were seated around a grand banquet table. I knew it was somewhere in Stockholm, and I knew it was in 1944....
It didn't take long for Herman to find a typewriter. He began to put out a newsletter named "The Beaver's Spur," in honor of the nickname given to his bombardment squadron at Thurleigh, the 368th ...
On May 8, 1944, the crew of 2nd Lt. Louis F Matichka with the 306th BG was forced to ditch their B-17 into the Baltic Sea. In 2006, two Swedish divers explored the grave of the 888 and took an amazing film....
Strandvägen 7 is the complex on the famed "Beach Road" in Stockholm where the American Legation was located. In the back corner of the Legation offices were the top secret desks of OSS Stockholm, the Office of Strategic Services. ...
The Hotell Rättviksgården is another little hotel where the American internees in Rättvik were housed during 1944. ...