My Dad Standing Beside His Crashed B-17 in WWII

 

My Dad is standing next to the Airman in the light colored shirt.

 

Two engines lost. No landing gear. All of the crew survived.

"These guys were 19, 20, and 21, and they're flying B-17s on these ridiculously complicated, hazardous missions. The idea that they'd be in these planes for 10 hours, round-trip, in temperatures equaling Mount Everest, with this sort of crude technology to drop bombs, and they'd head back and wake up and do it all over again ... people just can't imagine now."

 I Was a Morse Intercept Operator USAFSS - Misawa, Japan

 

At Delphi, Greece - 1972

 

Garage

 

My Grandad's old service station. He owned it for over 30 years. Sold in 1975.

 I was stationed at Iraklion Air Station, Crete - Morse Intercept Operator