To mark the Fourth of July in 1942, the Eighth Air Force flew its official first combat mission, identified as “Mission One” in Eighth Air Force documents. In six Douglas A-20 Bostons,…
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The Casablanca Conference The Casablanca US/UK Summit on Jan 13, 1943 was held to coordinate Allied military strategy against the Axis powers, and to resolve Allied tactics in air operations in the…
During the second week of October 1943, the Eighth flew a series of maximum-effort missions. Their first targets were in the Bremen-Vegesack area on October 8th. The next day their targets…
Major John L. “Jack” Jerstad could have just gone home to Racine, Wisconsin and nobody would have faulted him. After all, he’d already earned rapid promotion in the U.S. Army Air Corps,…
75 years ago on July 26, 1943, 2nd Lt. John Morgan, had two alternatives: pull the plug on a wounded friend or fight him for control of the stricken B-17. At mid-1940, with…
