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....
Sadly, the last living crew member of the LIBERTY LADY B-17 passed away in January....
A new trailer for the book Liberty Lady: A True Story of Love and Espionage in WWII Sweden...
I have read and reviewed so many World War II books, and now it's hard to believe that mine is finally written and published!...
The leather A-2 bomber jackets that were so proudly worn during World War II had been the standard Air Corps flight jacket since 1931. ...
Early on in the war, the Germans discovered a weakness in the B-17 and attacked the vulnerable nose straight on....
A book published in 1943, Skyways to Berlin: With the American Flyers in England, told the story of Jack and Mark Mathis, the bombardier brothers....
Seventy years ago today, March 6, 1944, the B-17 Liberty Lady force-landed on the Swedish island of Gotland just hours after the first large scale daylight raid on the city of Berlin. ...
When my sisters, brother, and I (Siblings in Sweden) arrived on the Swedish island of Gotland our mission was to visit the crash site of our Dad's B-17 Liberty Lady....
The first stop for our "Siblings in Sweden" trip would be the Swedish island of Gotland where on March 6, 1944, the B-17 Liberty Lady made an emergency wheels-up landing after it was badly damaged during a bombing raid over Berlin....