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Issue 9.14 Two brothers, Clyde and Stirling Patton from Orem, Utah went in the Military during World War 2. Clyde went into the Army Air Corp and a crewmember on a heavy bomber that flew missions over Germany. Stirling was a company commander in an engineer unit also in the war against Germany. Clyde’s crew […] Issue 8.14 The summer when I was aged seventeen my brother, Albert, took me in his 1935 Plymouth from Butte, Montana to the west coast where we intended to work at an Army camp that was just building. AI was ten years older than I, and it was the year 1942 and America was a […] Issue 7.14 For short it was called PFF. The Royal Air Force(RAF) developed the concept of PFF. Great Britain invented radar before the beginning of World War Two and were the first to use it for war advantage. We all have read about how the English used radar to warn of aerial attacks by the […] Issue 6.14 I still think of things that happened to me seventy years ago. I think about the days and evenings that we didn’t fly a mission. We were always happy when the weather at winter time at Europe was so terrible that we couldn’t get off the ground. We gunners could go to the […] Issue 5.14 I think it was the year 1940; I was living with the Scharf’s on South Montana Street in Butte, Montana. We had a next door neighbor by the name of Les Ledibur. He was married and had one little boy. My nephew, Gene, and I sometimes went over to their house and played […] Issue 4.14 Part 2 Each member of the crew could be reached by another, at most, by snapping on a walk around oxygen bottle and walking except the ball turret gunner who was in an enclosed movable capsule. At one check it went like this; Bombardier O K. Navigator O K. Pilot O K. Co-pilot […] Isssue 3.14 Part 1 Most Of our missions were carried out at altitude of 30,000 feet or higher. Our highest mission was flown at 34,000 feet Today, when you see the contrails high in the sky but can’t see the airplane causing them; that’s where we flew. We didn’t have pressurized or heated interiors so […] Issue 2.14 These two brothers grew up and lived in Bannock County of southern Idaho. They both enlisted or were drafted into the Army before the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor. December in 1941 changed all of their plans. Ralph and Boyd were identical twins and you had to be married to one to be […] Issue 1.14 On returning from a bombing mission into Germany, the procedure is for the Flying Fortresses of the 36 sent out that morning that have not been shot down to land in a pre determined sequence. The three squadrons of twelve bombers each will fly in formation on a circular route around the home […] Issue 51.13 There has been account after account of how the Flying Fortress brought its crew members home in spite of unimaginable damage to the airplane. I saw first hand how planes came home and landed and I wondered how they kept together long enough to land. Many planes in that shape could not even […] |
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