This United States pilot stationed in Karachi, India, deserted several weeks before his 23rd birthday. Playing a bit of bluff, he ended up in German-held territory in Europe, joined the ss propaganda ...
THE WILD BLUE: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-1945. By Stephen E. Ambrose. Simon & Schuster, $26. FLAK hit the plane ... Oil streamed out of the engine, and flame was belching ...
A 1941 graduate of Sugar Notch High School, Joseph John Miskel was one of thousands of young men and women who enlisted in the U.S. Armed Services at the outbreak of World War II. While each have ...
In the winter of 1944, as German forces pushed back across Belgium, the 48th Fighter Group, known as the Grim Reapers, played ...
Throughout December, the 29th Division’s front was “quiet,” meaning that there were no large-scale combat operations in their sector, but artillery was fired back and forth across the Roer, and German ...
Arthur Monroe Lingo has finally come home. The World War II pilot, killed in action in 1944, is now at rest at National ...