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Biographies & Stories of 381st BGMA members

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381st Training Group
1999 Heritage Dining In - Vandenburg AFB
Matt Berk & Wade McCook
Miraculous Survival - 535th BS
Richard A. Bettencourt
Ridgewell, England 1945
Bill Bilbruck
Ten Young Men - Armament Office
  Another day at the Bomb Dump
James Good Brown
Group Chaplain (photos only)
  Pictures 2005, 104 years old ! (photos only)
Scott Burris
Project 44, a web site devoted to the Bond Crew, my grandfather Ed Brumback, and the events over Eschwege Germany on April 19, 1944
John M. Carah

Achtung! Achtung! Die FlUGFestungen Kommen! Memoirs of WW-II

 

Tragedy in the Pyrenees The High Cost of Freedom

Winston Churchill
Commendations to 8th Air Force, 1st AD, October 1943
John Comer
A Matter of Days - 533rd BS
Allen Crosson
Mission To Bremen - A Trip Into The Past
George Cummins
Hometown newspaper account of the ordnance section chief saving the day
Philip P. Dreiseszun
Gentlemen, the Target for Today is Hamburg!
Dwight D. Eisenhower
SHAEF message to troops on D-Day
Lifford E. French
Frenchman finds French's Life vest
G - L
Lee Gnatzig
Egg Haid - 535th BS
James F. Grey
War diary of James F. Grey
Melvin Hecker
Two War Time Articles in the Chicago Tribune
Robert Herr
Fire over Stuttgart - 532nd BS
  Return to Ridgewell
Thomas Hogan
Grandkids support National W.W.II Memorial
John Howland
Pathfinder Navigator in 381st & 91st BG
  Pathfinders, Part 1
  Mickey Operators, GEE, & D-Day, Part 2
  Sodium Vapor Flares
  Darky (command set radio)
  Splasher
  The Last Day of Big Week
  Frank Palenik and the Crazy Canadians
  The White Hart Inn
  Carl Clark and the Unforgettable Takeoff
  Carl Clark, a Dedicated Pilot and Historian
  Use of GEE on the Kiel Raid
Through the Cloud Bombing, GEE-H & OBOE explained
David Hutchens

Checking out the Fighter Pilots - 532nd BS

  Schweinfurt & the Hutchens Crew, Oct. 14, 1943.
  Commendation from Col Nazzaro, others, Oct. 1-10, 1943
Isle of Man - April 23, 1945
List of Casualties and Background
June 23, 1943 - Explosion
List of Casualties and accounts of the tragedy
M - R
Earl J. Malerich
303rd BG, GH Navigator with a 381st BG crew and his story of crash landing during the Cologne, Germany, January 10, 1945, mission.
Kim Moore
Dry Gulcher Revisted
Col. Joseph J. Nazzaro
1st Group Command Officer (photos only)
Dave Osborne
Group Historian
George James Pastre
My Life as a Prisoner of War - 532nd BS
Kevin Pearson
381st Bomb & Shield donated to Vandenburg AFB
Bill Poland
The Poland crew story, how a B-24 crew ended up flying for the 381st BG - 532nd BS
  Poem from Cambridge American Military Cemetery
S - Z
Paul Scherrman
Memorial at the Scherrman aircraft crash site
Lloyd Sunderland
Pilot in the 532nd BS
  Mission to Munich
  Contrails Explained
  381st BG ship on a U.S. Stamp
Ewing Watson
533rd BS Commanding Officer - biography
  Plauen Mission, March 19th, 1945
Kevin Wilson
432nd Air Service Group Sees Germany
Robert Withers
Biography Robert Withers by Warren Carah
Everett Worrell
World War II pilot recalls trusty bomber depicted in stamp