14 Feb

Rättvik is a small resort town in central Sweden, 190 miles northeast of Stockholm, on the shore of Lake Siljan. In 1945 it had a population of 900....

12 Feb

In October, Herman's crew went together to New York for the trip to England. In winter months, instead of flying across, the airmen would sail across the Atlantic on one of the ocean liners which had been converted to troop ships....

10 Feb

Yesterday, February 9, 2009, I rode on theLiberty Belle, a restored World War II B-17.  It was an amazing opportunity, an experience of a lifetime, to visualize what their plane must have looked like to the crew of our Dad's B-17, the Liberty Lady....