27 Mar

General Axel Georg Ljungdahl served with the Swedish Air Force during World War II and was therefore very much involved with the Americans who were interned there....

23 Mar

Åke Stavenow was a lieutenant in the Swedish military and a close associate of Count Folke Bernadotte....

22 Mar

Accompanying the American General Edward P. Curtis on his trip from England to Sweden in October 1944 was Gunnar Hägglöf, who was, according to 8th Air Force Historian, at the time the Swedish Minister to Holland....

10 Mar

Edward Peck Curtis was an American ace during the first World War. He shot down six German planes and was awarded the distinguished flying cross....

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....

02 Mar

Rosita Serrano, born in 1914, was a beautiful World War II era singer and actress who grew up in Chile. With her mother, an opera singer, and her father, a diplomat, she moved to Germany in 1936. There she became very popular and performed for...

21 Feb

Eldon E. Posey left college in the summer of 1941 to join the Army Air Corps. By April of 1942, he was a fighter pilot ...

16 Feb

The navigator of the Liberty Lady on the day of their March 6, 1944, emergency landing on the island of Gotland was 1st Lt. Stanley N. Buck. ...

27 Jan

Update: Most of this post has been updated, thanks to a new photograph I received in 2013. Please see “The Dealers” dine at Tattersall Restaurant, written on March 27, 2014....

26 Jan

Bernt Balchen (1899 - 1973) led a remarkable life. He was an Arctic explorer, then during World War II he established US airfields in Greenland. Then he continued to work with the US Airforce on many projects which also involved the OSS....

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