512th Squadron Aircraft The Doodlebug Sweet Meat Crews The Blumenthal Crew Photos from S/Sgt. Clyde Hildebrand. Jr. - Nose Gunner The Lt. David C. Burton Crew  Photos from S/Sgt. Bob Mellinger- Tail Turret Gunner The Chase Crew The Davidson Crew Photos from Ray Smalley, Radio Operator The Ford Crew The Heintz Crew The Jackson Crew The Jensen Crew   The LaRoe Crew Photos from Lt. Ernie Schroeder - Co-Pilot The James McConnaughey Crew   The Rinker Crew   The Sandberg Crew The Sussmuth Crew The Whitaker Crew Unknown Crew - Crew Identification Number 8850, 11/11/45. The Bad Penny Crew Men Bill McCarty Dean O. Holman Training and Combat Experience Prisoner of War Major Myron Scott Holmes, USAF, Retired Thomas Raines Stewart
	513th Squadron Aircraft The Wench Crews The Barnes Crew The Barnes Crew The Brown Crew The Connolly Crew The John Dodds Crew Picture #1 Picture #2 The Erickson Crew The Fowler Crew The Gibbons Crew The Gordon Crew The Hoover Crew The Logan Crew The Lowery Crew The Morel Crew The Rutherford Crew The Severson Crew The Thurman Crew The Wright Crew Men Bob and Bill Barnes - Identical Twin Pilots Edward W. Biro - Remembering the Radar Gang, 1944-45: Innovations that Saved Lives 2nd Lt. George W. Crawford - Pilot George Dietz's Mission Notes Angelo "Andy" Giordano - Nose Gunner Burl Hazelwood Glynn Hendrix - Tail Gunner Edward J. McCabe Robert J. Reposa - Ball Turret Gunner Colonel Edwin P. Schmid Curtis Torfin - Waist/Top Turret Gunner
	514th Squadron Aircraft LADY BE GOOD Crews The Boyce Crew The Cornay Crew The Feeley Crew The Hatton Crew The Kistler Crew   The Kremer Crew The McGlynn Crew The Nulty Crew The Rendahl Crew The Shepard Crew The Three Smiths Crew The Stangl Crew Men Howard Beir - Commanding Officer Gordon W. Cook - Tail Gunner Herbie Hackett - Co-Pilot William D. Hathaway - Navigator (at the Copacabana Club, New York, 1944) John V. Hogan - Bombardier "Pete" Peterson Fred Russek - Engineer
	515th Squadron Aircraft B-24, Piloted by Edward H. Belyea Crews The Andrews Crew   The Barnes Crew The Christianson Crew The Mansell Crew The Marcus Crew Picture #1 Picture #2 The McKinney Crew The Reed Crew The Riggs Crew The Salscheider Crew The Serafin Crew The Sparta/Wilkins Crew The Tennant Crew The Thompson Crew The Umphrias Crew The Westby Crew The Whaley Crew The Wiltbank Crew Unknown Crew - John Pinkney Gotham Men Pete Aspesi - Radio Operator/Gunner Fred Felty's Scrapbook Lt. James Fleming James and Donna Grossmann John Pinkney Gotham - Unknown Crew Donald Johnstone's Photo Album Staff Sergeant George Russell Keyes -Waist Gunner Sargent Ronald B. Kneller Vincent M. Migliaccio - Gunner Arthur Mullen - Ball Turret Gunner John D. Palm - Pilot John T. Palmer, Jr. - Waist Gunner James "Jimmy" Sauls - Radio Operator Joe Taddonio - Gunner

Other Photos

• Joseph Corcoran
• Edward A. "Ted" Crouchley- HALPRO 
• The Graff Crew
• The Fiftieth Mission of "The Greek"
• Crew Members of HALPRO
• Edward J. "Buddy" Iannazzi  
• Photographs of Robert K. Outsen, Ordnance Officer
• The Robert I. Paullin Crew- HALPRO
• Unknown Crew- ID# 8850
• Unknown Crew- Henry Elith Larsen
• Unknown Crew- David Earl McNeeley
• James W. Walker - Group Historian

Aircraft and Crews

• B-24 Serial # 42-51151, Piloted by Lt. Frank O. Rutherford
  • B-24 Serial # 42-51151, Picture #2
• B-24 Serial # 42-51813
• B-24 Serial # 42-52200 Piloted by Edward H. Belyea 
• B-24, Serial # 42-100255, Piloted by Benjamin B. Chase
• BLACK MARIAH II 
• BREWERY WAGON
• CHUM VII
• FLAME McGOON
• GIN RAE 
• HARRY THE HORSE and the Story of Frank Hermann 
• LORRAINE
• MALICIOUS B-24 Serial # 41-11603.
• MARY ELLEN B-24 Serial # 42-50960  and the Mader Crew
• MISS INCENDIARY 
• PATHFINDER  AIRCRAFT
• PINK LADY 
• RIPPER
• SWEET MEAT
• The Mystery of the VITAMIN-P 
• WONGO WONGO
• YANK B-24 Serial # 41-11625

Memoirs

• Training Was Tough, Too
  by David C. Benoit, son of Ret. Lt. Col. Kenneth J. Benoit
• Life As a Liberandos
  by Richard H. Miller, Engineer, 514th Squadron
• True American Hero
  The Story of Dutch McElree, Top Turret Gunner, Brainard Crew, 512th Squadron
• Birth of A Combat Crew
  by Joseph Taddonio, Radio Operator, M.C. Serafin Crew, 515th Squadron
• View From A Jeep
  by Joe Petrak, Flight Engineer, Lt. D.R. O'Sullivan's Crew
• The Raid on Vicenza, Italy, December 28, 1943
  by Clifford Wendell, Pilot of the "Red Wing"
• "An Account of My Experience"
  by Ralph "Red" Thompson, 515th Squadron Commander
• Escape From Vicenza
  by Arthur Leadingham, Engineer, The Collison Crew, 512th Squadron
• Recollections of San Pan
  by Captain Jack Preble
• The Frascati Mission on May 23, 1944
  by T.Sgt. Raymond Roemer, Flight Engineer, 515th Squadron
• The Raid on Pottendorf, May 30, 1944
  by T.Sgt. Raymond Roemer, Flight Engineer, 515th Squadron
• By 2nd Lt. George W. Crawford, Pilot, 513th Squadron
• On Two Engines And A Prayer, From Munich to San Pancrazio, June 9, 1944
• Wiener-Neustadt, April 12, 1944, 13th Mission as a B-24 Pilot
• Innsbruck, Austria - December 15th, 1944
  by M.R. Gerszewski, Bombardier of Kremer's Crew
• Reflections on the Life of Kermit Peter Hansen
• World War II Training and Combat Experience
  by Dean O. Holman
• World War II Prisoner of War
  Personal Recollections of Dean O. Holman
• Remembering The Radar Gang, 1944-45 by Edward W.  Biro, radar mechanic, 513th Squadron and daughter Diana Biro
• Frequent Flyers of The Forties, Lt. Glenn E. Rendahl, Pilot- 514th Squadron
• Dear John  By  by Lt. Colonel Howard F. Beir
• Strawberry Bitch, by Daniel Rice- Pilot,  512th Squadron
• What was it like to fly a combat mission as part of a B-24 crew in WW II by Chet Humeniuk, Flight Engineer/Gunner, 512th Squadron
• Merry Christmas 1944 and After by  "Bill" Barton
  

News Stories

• KILLED IN 1944, AIRMAN JOHN S. MCCONNON
  MAY BE COMING HOME
  Three news reports
• COMRADE DIED ON RAFT IN 3-DAY ORDEAL AT SEA
  1st Lt. Philip Scott tells his story
• WII aviator Ernest Fogel shares his diary, bittersweet memories for Memorial Day  

Reunions

• The 1998 Minneapolis Reunion
• The 1999 Tucson Reunion

Bomb Strikes

• Mission #254,  5/14/44, Vicenza, Italy Marshalling Yard
  
• Mission #412, 2/19/45, Grazse, Austria Marshalling Yard
• Mission #432, 3/20/45, Amstetten, Austria Marshalling Yard
• Mission #434, 3/22/45, Vienna, Austria, Southeast Ordnance Depot
• Aerial Photo #1
• Aerial Photo #2
• Mission #436, 3/24/45, Neuburg, Germany Jet Training Field
• Mission #446, 4/8/45, Vipiteno, Italy, Railroad Bridge, "Brenner Pass"
• Mission #449, 4/11/45, Campodazzo RR Bridge, Osoppo Motor Truck Repair Shop

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