29 Jul

In September, I'm going back to Sweden! My two sisters and brother will come with me to revisit Gotland and Stockholm. I'm busy mapping out everything we need to see....

01 May

In January of 2011, I was excited to receive an email from a gentleman who wrote to me “from the sunny island of Gotland, Sweden.” Ulf Gahm was the editor at Gotlandsguiden -- the biggest and most comprehensive tourist magazine on the island. ...

19 Aug

After their belly landing on the Swedish island of Gotland, the crew of my Dad's B-17 "Liberty Lady" was sent to the village of Rättvik for their internment. Their "domicile" was the Hotell Lerdalshöjden....

03 Jul

We headed for the Swedish island of Gotland. At the end of the day on March 6, 1944, this is where the crew of the Liberty Lady made their final landing, wheels up on a boggy farmer's field. Miraculously all ten crew members climbed...

10 May

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....

01 May

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 Sep

One recent morning when I opened my email, out of the blue there was a message from Lifecruiser Travel, an international travel blog! ...

16 Aug

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....

07 Mar

Yesterday, March 6th, was Liberty Lady Day in the Allen family. It has been sixty-seven years since the B-17 Liberty Lady was forced to crash land on the Swedish island of Gotland....

04 Jan

Once the crew arrived in Stockholm, a representative from the American Legation told them, "We're going to take you uptown, let you take a bath, get your hair cut and buy you some clothes....

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