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Here is my dad's crew

EXCELLENT stuff jjb17463rd.

Thankyou very much for sharing[8D]

Steven

Thanks everyone.I'm sorry if I posted too many pictures.My dad was promoted to
1st Lt when he was in the E.T.O.
For the first 5 missions he was the co pilot.
Shockwave productions has many people(pilots,crewmembers) with extensive historical knowledge on their message boards and they just released a remake of Rowan's Battle of Britain flight sim.Sadly though they just cancelled B17 III The legend Returns.

No need to apologise. Great to see them.

Regards,

Steven

Thanks for sharing your fathers logs and photos with us.

von Shagmeister

One thing I noticed was how often he flew. Looked like it was nearly everyday. My crews would be useless by now.

Thanks for posting your dad's log books really interesting - not many a dull day there!!

Thanks for shareing

too many people forget

ORIGINAL: jjb17463rd

Thanks everyone.I'm sorry if I posted too many pictures.

Too many pictures? Impossible!

Those pictures and logbook pages are real treasures, and I sure appreciate you sharing them with us. If you have more I'd enjoy seeing those, too.

Sadly though they just cancelled B17 III The legend Returns.

Shockwave's remake may be dead, but there may be something else brewing. Take a look at the posts here:

http://www.bombs-away.net/forums/showth ... ge=1&pp=25

Thanks for sharing jjb17463rd.

Real treat IMHO.

And I want to extend to you my thanks for your Dad's service to the US.

Thanks again.I'll share a few more photos.Mom was a rosie the riviter and married to my father in 1944.She worked in a subcontractor plant riviting the Dorsel fins on
B-17's.She also worked on the thicker skinned B-29 Super forts.
You might want to ask the people in the http://www.armyairforces.com forum if they would like their family member to be in this wargame.It would be great to have real personel in the game as much as possible to make it especially realistic.I can however understand why some families would not want their family member in the game though because of bad memories.
I already had the previous 12 O Clock high Bombing the Reich strategy game by Talonsoft as well as Battle of Britain.It reminded me a lot of what the war planners did as I saw in the original Memphis Belle documentary which is free to download in the public domain at http://www.archive.org
One thing that I noticed in the video was that Brig. General Hansel awarded all the crewmen DFC's.What a coincidence because my dad was General Hansel's personal pilot in the states for a while after he served in the E.T.O

Here is dad sitting on a wrecked JU-88 at the Celone airbase which used to be a Luftwaffe airfield

Lassie and her Lads dad's favorite ship although he flew many other ones.
BTW I only posted fathers flight logs that had his combat missions.The rest of his Pilot logbook was huge and went back to Air Cadets in 1942