I am going to outline a real situaitoin that occured during WW II. I would like to hear opinions and solutions as to how the situation should be handled. I will give the real solutuion that was imposed during the war after a week or so when many opinions have been offered. There was a large...

Dear Cheryl, How wonderful to hear from you. The memories all started surging up; memories of years together with Bob flashed back; England, France, Belgium, Germany and the good times here in the States after the war. The missions flown and the adventures shared are unforgettable. Paul and I...

Bob's Story Paul, Bob and I were in a repple depple in the English midlands (Hanley, Stoke on Trent) waiting to join the 344th as a replacement crew. We all roomed together as pilots, copilots and bombardiers did.. One evening I entered the room to find Bob sobbing and shaking, wracked with tears...

On one mission a 20mm shell came into the cockpit of Willie, ricochet around a bit and andas it lost speed it bounced off our coplot's. nose. The nose swlled up like a grapfruit but the skin was not brokem No Purple Heart. Read, "I'm Hit, I'm Hit on my website for the entire story. Arthur...

Go to my website to the section titled, "MISSIONS AND RESULTS". Click on "The Bridge at Verberie" then" Wurzburg" to see how effective we were. Then peruse the other 10 strike photos to get a good idea of precision bombing at its best. The Bridge at Verberie is an example of putting a bomb in a...

If you didn't fight in WW II do you feel as though your had missed something? Do you feel that given your druthers you'd rather have been there than not? Any regrets at having missed it? Anyone? Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website...

PILOTS You see them at airport terminals around the world. You see them in the morning early, sometimes at night. They come neatly uniformed and hatted, sleeves striped; they show up looking fresh. There's a brisk, young-old look of efficiency about them. They arrive fresh from home, from hotels,...

It was the 4th of June 1944. We had been hitting targets on, around and behind the Normandy beaches. On that morning we lost one plane on take off. It crashed and burned. The entire 4,000 pound bomb load exploded setting off the full fuel tanks and all the MG ammo in the belts. The miraculous thig...

"Posterity: You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." John Quincy Adams Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

I am going to outline a real situation that occurred during WW II. I would like to hear opinions and solutions as to how the situation should be handled. I will give the real solution that was imposed during the war after a week or so when many opinions have been offered. There was a large...

There has been talk here that retired military who play golf at Nellis call the shots concerning traffic patterns.The most avid golfer at Nellis is the CO..And nobody gives a damn what the retired military thinks or wants. You figure it out. Arthur Kramer Visit my WW II B-26 website...

It was now the 21st. The sky was heavlky overcast with a lot of ground fog as well and freezing temperatures. We all walked around looking at the sky for any sign of a break in the weather. Then we all descended on the Metro office where our weatherman 1st.Lt. Paul Forant (Boston) was working up...

Let's take two planes going on low level support missions. They will have to fly through heavy ground fire including small arms fire. One plane is equipped with a radial engine,. let's say an R-2800. The other with a jet engine. Which plane would have a better chance of survival inder these...

GRAVES OF 344TH BOMB GROUP MEMBERS BURIED AT CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN CEMETERY COTON ENGLAND NAME RANK UNIT DATE/DEATH SER. NO. Strauss, John A. S/Sgt 494 04 June 1944 12083270 Eckert, John K. 1 lt. 494 08 March...

Subject: For Fliers Only... Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ...I Shall Fear No Evil ... For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing. (sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location Kadena, Japan). You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. (Paul F. Crickmore - test pilot)

Interesting article in this months issue of Aerospace Engineering on 100 years of unmanned flight in America. Well worth a look. Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Sehr verehrte Kunden, es sind wieder einige Neuheiten eingetroffen. Kagero Kaisers Aces Vol.1 60 Fotos,35 Farbprofile,Decals 17,50 Euro Kagero Aviation Series No.25:JG 26 "Schlageter" Vol.2

Their heroic record speaks for itself. And it seems that the only ones who question that are back-biting, carping, do-nothings who themselves have no record of acheivement. Arthur Kramer Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Subject: Flak, Evasive Action And the Deadly games we played From: Stephen Harding Date: 8/8/03 8:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: ArtKramr wrote: In the Marauders we had an air bottle. When you hit it, it locked...

FLAK, EVASIVE ACTION AND THE DEADLY GAMES WE PLAYED Flak took a greater toll on our bombers than fighters did. We had two weapons against flak, "window" and evasive action. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn't. But work or not, we played them anyway. There was no other choice. "Window"...