Army Air Force WWII Veterans Face Many Health Risks (Guest Post by Doug Karr)
In 1947, two years after the end of World War II, the United States Armed Forces created a new branch of the military, the United States Air Force (USAF). The brave men and women who served in the USAF were not new to service, of course: many of them were veterans of the United States Army Air [...]
{ Leave a comment }The Milk Run Fanzine
Contributions in this first issue from Vic Walzel and James S. Peters. Thanks to Lisa Niehoff for her suggestions and help. Click to view or Right-click ‘save as’ to download. File is a PDF. http://bit.ly/k88h9X You can copy this freely and share it. You are allowed to remix, tweak, and build upon this work [...]
{ Leave a comment }‘Let’s make a film…’
Greetings. I thought it high time you received an update from headquarters.. Several years ago I decided to make a film about the U.S Air Force in Britain. My mate Mike and I spent an afternoon driving around East Anglia with camcorders filming American military installations (probably a bad idea). That was a long time [...]
{ 4 Comments }WWII Relics Unearthed
I bumped into Simon Dunham at this years Seething Air Show. He was dressed as an American Airman and looked the part. He agreed to be filmed and started to tell me about other USAAF projects he had been involved with namely a number of archaeological digs in Norfolk and Suffolk. So, this weekend, with [...]
{ Leave a comment }Nasty Weather / Josh Winiberg / 448th Mission Reports
Today was characterised by howling wind and rain. It’s easy to see why, for some 8th Air Force veterans, their lingering memory of East Anglia involves lots of mud, rain, fog or drizzle (or all of the above). Apparently the idea that Eskimos have a hundred different words for snow is an urban legend so [...]
{ 3 Comments }Tributes so far…
I’m aiming to get 30 people to sign up to the tributes side of Happy Warriors. I’m close to the halfway point now and have a nice little collection which will include tributes to: Robert Saffir 448th BG John Yatsko 448th BG Richard Walsh 448th BG Eugene Pulcipher 448th BG Joseph Marganski 448th BG Edward [...]
{ 7 Comments }A Tribute to Leland Walzel
England is in full bloom. You may or may not be aware that the Happy Warriors project is now split into two parts. Part I is the documentary film and Part II is a collection of wartime biographies or ‘tributes’. The plan is to put thirty of these tributes together for inclusion on a DVD [...]
{ 3 Comments }Mother of all Hangovers (9th May 1945)
With that in mind perhaps today is more appropriate since 65 years ago many people must have endured the mother of all hangovers. The country breathed a collective sigh of relief, people partied in the streets, I wonder what it felt like to be connected to each other like that?
{ 4 Comments }Articles of War
Greetings. Dan Kanemoto, an award-winning filmmaker and animator posted news of his new release on the armyairforces forums this week. Articles of War is a 12 minute animated short about one pilots experiences flying a B-24 liberator during the Second world war. It looks gorgeous and this cartoon crew photo from the film is the [...]
{ Leave a comment }The Death of Red Bow
On 4th April 1945 Liberators of the 2nd Air Division took off from their bases in East Anglia to bomb airfields in Germany. At 0539 that morning aircraft serial number 44-50838 nickname Red Bow was airborne and headed in the direction of the jet airfields near the German town of Parchim. Piloted by Lt. Robert [...]
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