An excellent site by Lars Schjorring Knudsen dedicated to the history
of the 447th Bomb Group, from whom I 'borrowed' some pictures of Rattlesden
Airfield and the glossary pic of the nissen hut:
An experiment in wartime journalism:
Just about everything about the 381st BG, with links to Squadron pages.
See the 'quickjump' menu for related good stuff
Some nifty animated gif's of B-17's and other WWII planes
All the color airplane photos in the glossary came from these two sites, and there's tons more to see there:
An FTP site at BYU with lots of plane pics:
More good WWII airplane pictures:
FTP archive of WWII aircraft pictures:
Waren, a town near Peenemunde, Holland, was one of the towns where the
Nazi's built V-1 launch pads. They have a website and museum re: the
V-1, and I took one of their pictures:
Lots about the V-2- thanks for the picture!
Lots of WWII links and some unusual WWII information:
The glossary's waistgunners picture came from one of the pages of:
Nice tidy site with good info on many WWII airplanes, including the glossary pic of ...
The glossary pic of the Ike Jacket came from:
The glossary's Link Trainer pic came from here, but there's more good material:
A good place to research 8th AAF units, lots of pictures, especially the one I used of the Fuddy Duddy, a ship from the 708th Sqdn showing the Sqdn's markings:
The website of the 95th Bomber Group
Harley Sr says this classic movie is the best representation he's seen of life in Stalag XVIIb:
US Veterans' Associations:
A place to start looking for information about DAV services:
Lots of naval Unit research links and FAQ's, other services too
Some POW information, mostly Vietnam but other era resources are available:
On 8 Nov 1985 the US Government authorized a POW Medal for any American serviceman held captive since 1917. This link in the Americal Division Homepage has more information. Also, I used the glossary pictures of the Air Medal and the DFC from other parts of their site.
An incredible stash of POW info!
Dixie Bane, MD Harris' niece, sent me a scan of the only picture I have
of the original Crew #5
Thank you VERY much, Dixie!
Other pictures on other pages in this site came from one or another of these books, in HT Sr's private collection of memorabilia:
"Target: Germany, The Army Air Forces' Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command's First Year Over Europe", Copyright 1943 by the Army Air Force Aid Society, Published by Simon and Schuster, Inc, Rockefeller Center, 1230 6th Ave, New York 20, NY
"Scott Field Army Air Force Technical Training Command, a Pictorial and Historical Review of Scott Field, Illinois". Class graduating 10 May 1943.
"The 8th Sees England", Copyright 1946, Jack Bozung Editor and Publisher, 134 N. Mansfield Ave, Los Angeles, California
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A writer I shall not name got ahold of the journal kept by the American
Commander of the POW's in Stalag XVIIb after it was declassified several
years ago. He saw my website and we corresponded quite a bit, mostly
me giving him infomation from my father's collection and his copy of Kriegie
Memories. When I asked the writer for some info he had that would fill
out my father's website, he gave me my Dad's Stalag XVIIb barracks number
then quit responding to my emails. I realize that he was putting together
a book from which he hoped to make a chunk of bucks and he didn't want to
give away the information he'd worked hard to gather. However, I,
for one, will not buy a copy of it when or if it ever gets published.
And he missed out on a whole lot of free publicity.
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