By 1943, the USAAF was training bombardiers to use the Norden Bombsight. This piece of equipment was a carefully guarded secret and crews were instructed to destroy the bombsight if forced down in or near enemy territory. ...
Lt. Allen received his bombardier wings upon graduation from the Victorville, California Bombardier School. All students at the Carlsbad school, the only one of its kind, are commissioned bombardiers who come to Carlsbad to receive a special intensified course in 'dead reckoning' navigation. ...
The Bombardier Training School that Herman went to after he left Sequoia Field was located at Victorville Army Air Field, later called George Air Force Base, just north of Victorville, California. ...
Propwash is the title of the Sequoia Field class books. That is where I found Herman's poem that explained why he didn't become a pilot....
Sequoia Field is in Visalia, California, is where Herman was sent for flight training in order to become a pilot, Things didn't quite work out....
Santa Ana Army Air Base (SAAAB) was a huge classification and preflight center on the west coast where new Aviation Cadets were indoctrinated into military life. ...
I must now give credit to the website and message board at www.ArmyAirForces.com. It was here in 2008 that I first found Mattias from Sweden searching for information about the Liberty Lady....
On March 18, 1942, four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) ...
I saw Herman's flight jacket this weekend. The back of the jacket has a picture of an airplane and the name "Liberty Lady." ...
In late 2007, the Roswell Rotary Club voted to undertake a huge new project. We began to raise money to fly World War II Veterans to see the World War II Memorial. ...