Resources

  • Bennett, Lowell (1945). Parachute to Berlin. New York, NY: Vanguard. (Reissued by Casemate Publishers, 2023.)
  • Carney, Jim (2012). “Grandpa’s War Memories Live on as College Project,” The Akron Beacon-Journal, August 13, pages B1, B4. [Public Radio Audio Interview]
  • Drain, Richard E. (2004). 5th Bomb Wing: History of Aircraft Assigned.
  • Fiveash, Beth (1983). “World War II Veteran Recalls Extraordinary Story,” The Troy Messenger, October 12, page 1B.
  • Grimm, Jacob L. (1997). Hero’s of the 483rd: Crew Histories of a Much-Decorated B-17 Bomber Group During World War II. 483rd Bombardment Group (H) Association.
  • Hutchison, Sheryl L. (2009). Mentor Inbound: The Authorized Biography of Fred J. Ascani, Major General, USAF Retired. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
  • Klise, Heidi M. (2012). “History of the Fifteenth Air Force in World War II Through the Eyes of One Man: The War Story of Second Lieutenant Winthrop Sargent Worcester, Jr.” Senior Independent Study Thesis, College of Wooster, Paper 3849.
  • Kovarik, Eugene (1954). “Brundidge Pecan Firm Is One of U.S.’ Biggest,” Alabama Journal, November 9, page 1.
  • Miller, Donald L. (2006). Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Faught the Air War Against Nazi Germany. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
  • Rankin, Senath and Jay W. Moore (2015). A True Flyer: Memories of a World War II Air Apache. Research Triangle, NC: Lulu.com.
  • Schumacher, Tobias (2018). “The ‘Hildreth Bomber’ Near Friesenhofen,” Swabian Newspaper, December 15, Leutkirch p. 17. [Original in German, translated to English.]
  • Stern, Donald E. (1994). 483rd Bomb Group (H). Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company.
  • The Delta Democrat-Times (1943), “Editorial: We Owe Them More … ” February 25, page 8.
  • The Greenville Army Flying School (1942). Greenville, Mississippi. (Houston, TX: E.M. Berry).
  • The Troy Messenger (1943). “Soldier Guards on Program of S.T.C. Club.” September 23, page 1.
  • The Troy Messenger (1944). “Pike Farmers Are Commended by P.O. Davis.” August 11, 1944, page 1.
  • 483rd Bombardment Group (H) Association (1989). “From the U.S. to Italy with the Flight Echelon” Newsletter, 9:4, August. As reprinted in volume 42, no. 3, September 2019.

MEMMINGEN RAID

  • Erickson, Charles W. (2013). “More on the Memmingen Mission: Charles W. Erickson’s Personal Experience.” 483rd Bombardment Group (H) Association Newsletter, 36:3, September, 5-6.
  • Halder, Daniel (2017). The Fiercest Air Battle Over the Allgau: Four Americans Follow in the Footsteps of Their Father and Grandfather in Legau,” Lindau Newspaper, October 27. [Original in German, translated to English.]
  • Hauber, Ludwig (2020). “A B-17 Pilot Recounts: My Toughest Combat Mission,” Flugzeug Classic, July, 61-68. [Original in German, translated to English.]
  • Hauber, Ludwig (2020). “Fate of a B-17 Crew: A Horrible Bloodbath,” Flugzeug Classic, October, 15-21. [Original in German, translated to English.]
  • Haulman, Daniel L. (undated). “The Battle of Memmingen, July 18, 1944.” Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air Force Historical Research Agency.
  • Haulman, Daniel L. (2008). “Tuskegee Airmen-Escorted Bombers Lost to Enemy Aircraft.” November 26.
  • Haulman, Daniel L. (2010). “A Tail of Two Missions: Memmingen, July 18, 1944 & Berlin, March 24, 1945,” Air Power History, 57:4, Winter, 27-33.
  • Haulman, Daniel L. (2011). “The Tuskegee Airmen and the ‘Never Lost a Bomber’ Myth,” The Alabama Review, 64:1, 30-60. (A pre-publication version of the manuscript is available here.)
  • Haulman, Daniel L. (2012). “The ‘Other’ Red Tails,” Air Power History, 59:4 (Winter) 38-45.
  • Heuberger, Willi (2004). July 18, 1944: Air Battle Over Buchenberg. Buchenberg, Germany: Local History Association of Buchenberg, Buchenberg History Booklets No. 1, July [Original in German, translated to English.]
  • Lollar, Kevin (1994). “Milk Run Becomes Nighmare,” News-Press (Fort Myers, Florida), July 18, 30.
  • Otto, Steve (1981). “Memmingen Raid Turned Into a Nightmare for the 483rd,” The Tampa Times, October 28, B-1, B-2.
  • Rider, Richard L. (2013), “Memmingen on the Ground,” 483rd Bombardment Group (H) Association Newsletter, 36:3, September, 6-7.
  • Zdiarsky, Jan (2017). “Memmingen 18-7-1944.” INFO Eduard, 15-3

WEBSITES

P.O.W. CAMP

FACEBOOK GROUPS

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

BACKGROUND MATERIAL

  • American National Red Cross, Prisoners of War Bulletin: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=arcprisoners
  • Arct, Bohdan (1988). Prisoner of War: My Secret Journal, Squadron Leader B. Arct, Stalag Luft 1, Germany 1944-45. Exeter, Devon UK: Webb & Bower.
  • Armstrong, Roger W. (1991). U.S.A. The Hard Way: An Autobiography of a B-17 Crew Member. Orange County, CA: Quail House Publishing Co.
  • Beltrone, Art and Lee Beltrone (1994). A Wartime Log: A Remembrance From Home Through the American Y.M.C.A. Charlottesville, VA: Howell Press, Inc.
  • Bozung, Jack H. (1947). The 15th Over Italy. Los Angeles: AAF Publications Company.
  • Carlson, Lewis H. (1997). We Were Each Other’s Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II American and German Prisoners of War. New York, NY: Basic Books.
  • Coalter, Robert (2020). Rigor Mortis: The Machine and His Men, The Story of B-17 Flying Fortress 42-5233 in World War II.
  • ‘Combat America’ with Clark Gable (1944) [USAAF ‘Training’ Movie of 351st Bombardment Group (Heavy)]: https://youtu.be/7SJQYG_GskY
  • Comer, John (1989). Combat Crew: The True Story of One Man’s Part in World War II’s Allied Bomber Offensive. New York, NY: Pocket Books
  • Dye, John Thomas (1962). Golden Leaves. Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press.
  • Dyreborg, Erik (2006). The Captured Ones: American Prisoners of War in Germany, 1944-1945. New York, NY: iUniverse, Inc.
  • Fyler, Carl (1995). Staying Alive: A B-17 Pilot’s Experience Flying Unescorted Bomber Missions by 8th Air Force Elements During World War II. Leavenworth, KS: J.H. Johnston III.
  • Greening, Charles R. (undated). Not as Briefed. St. Paul, MN: Brown & Bigelow.
  • Hess, William N. (2003). B-17 Flying Fortress: Units of the MTO. Osprey Combat Aircraft No. 38, Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing.
  • Jablonski, Edward. Flying Fortress: The Illustrated Biography of the B-17s and the Men Who Flew Them.
  • James, B.A. (1983). Moonless Night: The Second World War Escape Epic. South Yorkshire, UK: Penn & Sword Books Ltd.
  • LaHurd, Christopher M. (2012). A Story of One: Walking the Path of a World War II Airman. Bennington, VT: Merriam Press. Reprinted as: World War II: Dispatches to Akron (2009). Charleston, SC: The History Press.
  • Lienemann, Donald H. (2003). Miracles Do Happen: A B-17 Navigator’s Story. Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing.
  • Logan, Edward F. (2006). Jump, Damn It, Jump: Memoir of a Downed B-17 Pilot in World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.
  • Mahoney, Kevin A. (2013). Fifteenth Air Force Against the Axis: Combat Missions over Europe During World War II. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
  • McGarry, James M. (1995). In and Above the Olive Groves: The Personal Remembrances of a World War II B-17 Pilot. Ballston Lake, NY: Gregory McGarry.
  • Mosenthin, H. Glenn (2015). “Stuttgart Army Airfield: A Photo Essay.” Grand Prairie Historical Bulletin 58 (April), 38-43.
    https://www.grandprairiehistory.org/_files/ugd/011294_094ef9b96bff4f5c9e72281064c79878.pdf
  • Neilson, Robert P. (2017). A Bomber Pilot’s Story: The George H. Neilson World War II Memoirs. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
  • Neufeld, Michael J. (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: Free Press.
  • Perry, George F. (1990). “For You Der Var Iss Ofer.” Portland, OR: George Perry.
  • Rankin, Senath and Jay W. Moore (2015). A True Flyer: Memories of a World War II Air Apache. Research Triangle, NC: Lulu.com.
  • Rice, Rondall (1999). “Bombing Auschwitz: US 15th Air Force and the Military Aspects of a Possible Attack.” War in History, 6:2 (April 1999), 205-229.
  • Richard, Oscar G. (2000). Kriegie: An American POW in Germany. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press.
  • Soale, Brandon (2011). From Foggia to Freedom: First-Hand Accounts of the Airmen of the 15th Air Force During World War II. Camden, OH: Crab Apple Books.
  • Sroda, Becky and Albert G. Williams (2003). Falling Down for the Count. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford Publishing.
  • Stiles, Bert (1952). Serenade to the Big Bird. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company (reprinted Acadia Press, 2017).
  • Stout, Jay A. (2003). Fortress Ploesti: The Campaign to Destroy Hitler’s Oil. Havertown, Pa: Casemate Publishers.
  • Tillman, Barrett (2014). Forgotten Fifteenth: The Daring Airmen Who Crippled Hitler’s War Machine. Washington, DC: Regency History.
  • Zemke Hubert as told to Roger A. Freeman (1991). Zemke’s Stalag: The Final Days of World War II. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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