28 Jul

This week, I found a tiny photograph of a plane in my Dad's scrapbook from World War II Sweden. I blew it up and discovered some creative nose art -- a scantily-clad blonde!...

29 Mar

Swedish filmmaker and author Jan-Olof Nilsson recently visited me while he and his family were vacationing in south Florida....

04 Apr

A year or so ago, Joakim, a gentleman from Sweden, sent me a 1943 luggage label from the Hotell Siljansborg! Out of the blue! ...

27 Mar

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....

06 Mar

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. ...

16 Aug

Rättvik is where, during World War II, my Dad and his crew were interned after their crippled B-17 “Liberty Lady” belly landed on the Swedish island of Gotland....

15 Jul

On October 1, 1943 Falun was opened as an official camp for interned American flyers. The internees were put up in various hotels and boarding houses. Some even stayed in private homes....