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Where do you live? : Colorado
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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Comments : Just surfed in and thought you had a very nice site. Keep up the good work.
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First Name : debbi van blair
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : IL
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : LOL-obviously!
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Comments : I'm so proud of you both! You've created a wonderful tribute, not only to Dad's crew, but to all who answered the call to fight to protect freedom in those dark days of WWII. The love and care you've both put into this project are apparent. Bravo & brava!
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First Name : Harold
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email : [email protected]
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URL : http:www.geocities.com/harold5695
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Where do you live? : IN.
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : I Did
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Comments : 448th BGp 714th BSq Seething Crew 48.Good Start.I will have you connected with links if you wish when we get more on mine.I hope we can get more 448th and 8th AAF personnel involved.
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First Name : Gene and Marilyn
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Monroe, NY
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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Comments : Thank you for sharing these pictures.
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First Name : Norm
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Oregon
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : 44th BG
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Comments : Nice site, lovely tribute.
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First Name : Daniel
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Maple Shade NJ
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : 8th AF
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Comments : I was a ball turet gunner on a B24.
Flew 36 missions, 35 with the original crew.
466BG/782SQD
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First Name : Harvey
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email : [email protected]
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URL : http://hey_moe.tripod.com
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Where do you live? : MN
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes -me- 451st BG-15th AF
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Comments : Very nice web page-- my web page was put together by a B24 buff . He did an excellant job for me
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First Name : Becky
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Texas
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes, my father
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Comments : My dad was Jack R. Smith. He was a Bombardier and attained the rank of 1st Lt. by the time he was discharged in 1945. He was in the 8th Air Force, 2nd Air Division, 20th Bomb Wing, 448th BG, 713th Bomb Squadron, Crew No. 25. The crew's names:
Pilot, Henr
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First Name : Richard
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : NE Penna
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : My father dis
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Comments : Dad was in Beghazi, Libya and flew on Ploesti bombing mission. I'd love to hear from others.
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First Name : Gerald Yaxley
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Champaign, IL
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : I did.
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Comments : Was in 104th Infantry Div., 413/I, called Timberwolves. Was wounded in Germany Nov. 23, 1944, near Aachan. We also have a web site, www.104infdiv.org
You have a great website.
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First Name : Gary
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : North Carolina
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : My Uncle in USAAF, Father worked for Prat & Whitney, Mother was a plane spotter on Long Island NY
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Comments : This is a beautiful site dedicated to very special Americans during a very trying time for our country. I wish you the very best of wishes.
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First Name : Dick
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Independence, Mo
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First Name : Dick
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Independence, Mo
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : No - too young
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Comments : I did serve 20 years in the AF, most of it in SAC. 1952-1973 You have a great site and I have enjoyed it very much. I was in the 4th-5th-and 6th grades during the war and its great to read what the 20 to 30 year olds did during this time. Thanks.
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First Name : Tom Hegre
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email : [email protected]
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URL : http://www.geocities.com/matherguy/
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Where do you live? : Carmichael, California
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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Comments : A very nice site. It's great to know that someone is remembering the people who gave so much of themselves for their country.
My web page is a pictorial history of Mather Field, California from 1918 to 1935.
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First Name : ROBERT
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : ROSEVILLE, CA
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : I DID
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Comments : I WAS IN THE 389TH BOMB GROUP, 565TH BOMB SQUADRON, MAY THROUGH TO 12 JULY 1944, WHEN I WAS SHOT UP AND LANDED IN SWITZERLAND.
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First Name : dennis
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : cornwall, ny 12518
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : harold kennedy
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Comments : I thoroughly enjoyed your site. It gave me excellent insight [and respect] into the lives of these courageous young men and their battle experiences. We owe them so much..those who lived and those left behind.
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First Name : Eric
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Marietta, GA.
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Father
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Comments : My Father William E Clarke III was in the 389th, 566th. He flew 38 missions from August 1943 to March 1944. He was stationed at Hethel air base. We will visiting the museum Febuary 17th.
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First Name : James David
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Pittsburgh Pa
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Father in Law S/Stg David Calvin Jackson 564th Bomb Squad / 389 th Bomb Group
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Comments : Looking for any information that may help me. I hope this site will assist me/wife's family. I wish to honor him with another grave side ceremony. This time my wife and her brothers will be able to have a better understanding of what their dad did in the
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First Name : Anthony Kain
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Las Vegas, NV
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Dad was in 448th BG, 713 Squadron; served as a waist gunner on 'Tondelayo'
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Comments : Good site. Keep going. I'm doing research on my dad's experiences.
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First Name : Larrie
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Jacksonville FL
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : no
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Comments : alumni of QHS in Quincy Ill
Left Quincy in 1956 but still visit the area frequently
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First Name : Lloyd
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Lakeland, Fl.
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Dad, 427th Nav. 303rdBG
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Comments : Came in from the Heavy Bombers ring to read about ditching a B-24. Will book mark the page and come back to read all. This looks like a better than average site. Congratulations on a good job. Lloyd.
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First Name : John Durst
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email : [email protected]
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URL : http://www.homestead.com/durst/index.html
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Where do you live? : Bonham, Texas
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes, several cousins and uncles
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Comments : Most interesting learning how some survived in almost hopless conditions. God Bless our veterans, living and dead.
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First Name : Daniel L. Stockton
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email : [email protected]
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URL : http://www.b24bestweb.com
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Where do you live? : Liberator Land!
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : You bet ya!
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Comments : Great Stuff!!
Image Archive and Research/Reference Center for W.W.II B-24 Liberator Bombers
(over 1600 images!!)
Click �BANNER� (below)�
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First Name : Palidin
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : (warm) Lk/Ld, Fl
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : 303rdBG, 427th
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Comments : You have done an exellent job Melinda ( you too Dale). Now we have the history. It was a Brit idea, perhaps they should put it on the Web, hey? Why leave it up to the bloody Yanks? They'll want to name a car after it. Cheers. Palidin.
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First Name : Don
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Frankfort, KY
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : COUSINS, UNCLES
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First Name : william
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email : [email protected]
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URL : http://goecities.com/wsquires
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Where do you live? : Ohio
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : My uncle and my brother
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How did you find our website? : Heavy Bombers email
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Comments : My compliments on the web page, you have done an excellent job. I was a bit amazed after reading the story of the ditching because the original B24 that my uncle flew in ditched in the same place 4 days after he was killed. In their case all but one survi
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First Name : Carolyn
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Florida
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes, my late husband - 8th Air Force, 448th Bomb Group, 712th Bomb Squadron, Crew 13.
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Comments : Beautiful site, tributes, pictures and letters.
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First Name : john
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : valley forge pa
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : father
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How did you find our website? : surf
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Comments : Good Afternoon Dale & Melinda:
My wife and I will be returning to East Anglia England in July. We are very interested in USAAF history and will once again be visiting former Air Corps bases.
Our guide has arranged for us to visit Seething. I am keenly
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First Name : Lori
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email : [email protected]
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URL : hometown.aol.com/hearthislj/index.html
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Where do you live? : Peoria, IL
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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How did you find our website? : Great
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Comments : Wonderful dedication to a time in history and to the people who saved the world as best as they could.
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First Name : Rudy Preus
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email : [email protected]
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URL : http://members.home.net/stellarimages
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Where do you live? : Comox, BC, Canada
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : My Uncles
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How did you find our website? : Surfing
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Comments : I am a retired Canadian Air Force pilot. My hobby is Stained Glass and my Three Dimensional Stained Glass Aircraft may be of interest to your guests. If anyone wishes to view my work, please visit me at http://members.home.net/stellarimages
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First Name : James Carroll Harrison
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Bridge City, Texas 77611
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : father in 715th/ uncles in German army
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How did you find our website? : internet search for B-24 sqd
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Comments : My father never talked about what he did in the war. he was an engineer. I have pictures of his crew after WWII in Germany and his plane. He did tell me it had a red ball on the nose. I found his unit in the sheild and new testament metal cover bible my g
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First Name : Reinhard Bojer
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Germany
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? :
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How did you find our website? :
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Comments : Am 29. April 1944 st�rzte die Maschine von 2Lt John W. Cathley in Deutschland ab. (MACR4490) Die Absturzstelle habe ich zu einem Denkmal gemacht. Es befindet sich dort seit dem 23.12.2000 ein Kreuz, mit einem Schild, worauf die Namen der Gefallenen ARLUCK
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First Name : Henri Etta
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Alaska
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : My Father
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How did you find our website? :
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Comments : My father, Henry David Rexroad crashed in Tunisia 02/44. Trying to contact anyone who knew him.
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First Name : Glenn
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Mesa, AZ
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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How did you find our website? : Yahoo
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Comments : Surfed in after searching for "Chateaubernard". My uncle was a B-17 co-pilot who was shot down and KIA on 31 December 1943 raid on Cognac. Plane was disabled by flak and was trying to join up with a B-24 group when it was finished off by German fighters.
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First Name : John Cooper
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email : [email protected]
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URL : http://splashdown2.tripod.com/HandleyPageHastingsTG579/
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Where do you live? : Suffolk England
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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How did you find our website? : Search engine
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Comments : Hi Dale and Melinda, nice site,I too belong to the Goldfish Club and my story can be read on the above URL. Have a good Christmas from everyone across the pond!
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First Name : Donald
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Tampa Florida
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : I beleive my Grandfather did, But never was able to find out
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How did you find our website? : A Close freind, Frank Arnold aka "God Father"
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Comments : I enjoyed reading through the pages. I feel peopel are not giving enough time to our past and am greatful that you have taken the time to share a small piece through this web site. Thank you for helping some of us understand just what it's like when we ar
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First Name : Jim
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Vandalia, IL
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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How did you find our website? : Dale VanBlair
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Comments : Interesting website - well organized and easy to use.
I'm anxious to read more about the Crew's experiences!
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First Name : Joyce
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Vandalia, IL
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : yes
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How did you find our website? : Dale VanBlair
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Comments : Very nice web site and very interesting.
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First Name : John
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Louisville, KY
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : no
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How did you find our website? : Joyce Staff
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Comments : Thought I would sign in before I read the website just in case I forgot afterwards.
I imagine I would have paid more attention in your class if you taught WWII instead of English.
John Moore
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First Name : tom
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Pana, Il
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : my Dad
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How did you find our website? : Joyce Staff
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Comments : I graduated form Vandalia H.S. is 1951, and served in the Air Force, in Germany, during the Korean War.
Joyce, knowing this, told me of this website.
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First Name : Barbara Janes Crye
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Vandalia, IL
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : yes,brother & family
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How did you find our website? : Thru Dale Van Blair
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Comments : As a former student of Mr. Van Blair in Vandalia, IL. High School, I think this is wonderful. Every vet should put in writing his experiences, at least for his family. Thanks
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First Name : Jim
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Puyallup, Washington
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes, My Dad & Uncles
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How did you find our website? : Surfing
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Comments : My mother's cousin,who I had the honor to meet when I was a boy of about 9 or 10 years of age,served as a radio operator on a B-24 in Europe during World War II. He told me of being shot down over Germany. I'm researching information on him and his career
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First Name : Rylan
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Nebraska
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : yes, both of my Grandfathers, in the Navy
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How did you find our website? : from a post by "Godfather" on www.romad.com
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Comments : Outstanding site, I just wanted to pass on a crisp salute
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First Name : Louis
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Florida
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : yes
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How did you find our website? :
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Comments : an excellent tribute to those who served and sacrificed during a great time of need.
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First Name : Barbara
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : New Jersey
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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How did you find our website? : Searching
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Comments : My grandmother's brother First
Lieutenant Frank E. Nadler served
in then the U.S. Army Force. LT.
Nadler flew with the 389th BG 564th
BS.This group was with the 2nd Air
Division flying B-24 Liberators
out of Hethel, England. The aircraft went down
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First Name : Daniel
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email : [email protected]
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URL :
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Where do you live? : Paragould, AR
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : 713 BS 448 BG
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How did you find our website? :
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Comments : My uncle, Roosevelt Jameson, was a radio operator/gunner with the 713th BS, 448th BG (H), stationed in Seething, England. Wish to contact others in the 713th.
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First Name : Jean
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First Name : Bill
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Cupertino, Ca
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Myself
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How did you find our website? : 389th BG Newsletter
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Comments : I flew 30&1/2 missions,nose turret gunner, 389th BG,566th Squadron,(K+) Aug 44 thru Jan 28th,45 on the crew of Lt Al Berthelsen
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First Name : Darrell
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Where do you live? : Illinois
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : Yes
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How did you find our website? : 389thBG newsletter
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Comments : Lewis H Raines, served with the 389thBG-565thBS. Lost at Kjeller, Norway nov 43 "VagabondKing"
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First Name : Scott
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email : [email protected]
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Where do you live? : Great Falls, MT
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Did you or anyone in your family serve in WWII? : My great grandfather
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How did you find our website? : Google search
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Comments : I am beginning my master program at American Military University. My initial research paper is focusing on the history of my squadron, which is presently the 564th Missile Squadron at Malmstrom AFB, MT. Any additional historical info, or person accounts m
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