Jerstad’s was one of five Medals of Honor earned that day over Ploesti, the most Medals of Honor ever conferred in a single military operation, all but two of them posthumously. Maj….
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After his forced bail out and subsequent capture on 8 April 1944, Co-Pilot Vernon Dicke of the 447th Bomb Group was sent to Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany. There he met Otis…
On 16 July 1944, the 398th Bomb Group attacked the aircraft engine factory at Munich and lost two B-17s. One of the destroyed B-17s had Samuel Miller flying as tail gunner. He…
Unlike the fighter pilots, individual bomber gunners did not receive official credit for any of their shootdowns. Part of this was for policy reasons–the Army wanted each gunner to think of himself…
