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...
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....
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....
In custody of the local military unit, the ten airmen, miraculously safe and sound, were taken by truck to the folk high school in nearby Hemse. After two nights, the crew left for the Swedish mainland....
Albin Larsson, of the Home Guard, armed with the rifle and bayonet, neared the area of the smoking plane and called out to the crew of ten in his foreign tongue, "Are you wounded? Are there any bombs?"...
Captain Charles W. "Smithy" Smith, with assistance from co-pilot Merle P. Brown, skillfully guided the crippled B-17 for about 2500 feet before it came to rest. The crew members, all ten of them, were stunned but unhurt. It was 4:55 in the afternoon....
There is a place on the island known as "Mastermyr." It is a bog west of Hemse where significant medieval artifacts have been found. This is the spot where the Liberty Lady pilot Charles W. Smith and the copilot Merle P. Brown chose to bring...
Our wilting B-17 Liberty Lady is flying over the island of Gotland, a Swedish province. Remember that the crew had no idea where they were and suspected that they were still flying over enemy territory. As waist gunner Don Courson remembers, when they came...
Lasse Svensson, a little boy who lived in the tiny village of Hemse on the island of Gotland, heard the noise of a plane flying low. Because his Dad owned a photoshop in Hemse, there was always a camera nearby, and it was always loaded...
In an effort to hide from the furious enemy fighter planes, our wounded Liberty Lady slipped into a cover of clouds....