You don't have to be in a war zone to find unexploded ordinance. In New Jersey people keep finding handgrenades and even a WWI mustard gas canister in piles of seashells used to pave driveways
just to jump in. In 8th grade I won my science fair with a report on aviation and there was no internet. It can help a lot but all my research was done by reading a book. I know it's quite old fashion but there are a lot more good books out there now than in 1964 and there would be no danger of...
MACR 4723 lists my uncle Lt. Gerald Gowen as the Pilot. His aircraft was shot down by flack the same mission as Lt Dwyer's plane. Allyn's Irish Orphans History has the planes and pilots switched. Two crew members survived from each plane. The last member of my uncles crew was buried in Arlington...
Just wanted to say hi to all the members. I found this site while answering a question about my uncles B-17. He was killed May 10,1944, on a mission to Werner Neustadt. And I thought this was a good site to let everyone know about my group at Welcome to Operation Bolero.org it's great to see all...