02-Aug-2008
 

 

Home of the U.S Fifth Air Force in WW2


 
 
RECOLLECTIONS

The literary quality of these writings varies from raw to the sophisticated, but all are expressive, historically valuable, and each writer has his own unique expression. None have never been previously published, and there is nothing like hearing the words of the men themselves.  

MEMOIRS OF A LOW-LEVEL GUNNER - William Strictland

MY MEMORY OF PAPPY GUNN - Roy Lee Grover

SOMETHING DIFFERENT - a 4th Air Depot Story - Walt Cornell

MITCHELL DITCHING OFF FORMOSA (author unknown)

MY LAST MISSION – Lehug Drome - Gayland Dill

LIFE ON THE LINE – 38th BG crew chief Al Saccomando

THE NOVICE – First Combat Over Port Moresby – Don McGee

CRACK-UP AT CAIRNS - Co-pilot John Hellstrom

MacARTHUR BLASTS RABAUL - Robert Cromie of the Chicago Tribune

FROZEN IN TIME - Recollections of a tail gunner over Borneo - Hager Blair

DEADLY GAME - Early Mitchell Missions in New Guinea - Roy Lee Grover

NO ATHIESTS IN A FOXHOLE - a 49th Service Squadron Diary - Kenneth Paul Meriam

PEOPLE, MACHINES, NATURE & MYSELF - Life in New Guinea - Roy Lee Grover

 

 

 
 

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