ArtKramr wrote:

Subject: Aircrew casualities
From: Juvat
Date: 10/1/03 9:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, Guy Alcala
blurted out:

I've just retrieved a copy of Roger Freeman's "Mighty Eighth
War Manual," which...

...is a great resource. Couple years ago down at the Archives at
Maxwell, I heard a resident PhD War College staffer discuss Freeman's
work with one of Art's contemporaries. I chimed in how I thought the
"War Manual" was his best (at least my favorite)...the good doctor
scrunched up his forehead, "but it's just tactics and formations..."

I just smiled...different strokes I guess.

Juvat


Just curious. Did Freeman actually fly missions with the 8th?

Nope, he was an English kid who lived near one of the bomber bases during
the war, and spent a lot of time hanging out there (the ground crews let
him). Since then he's become unquestionably the foremost historian of the
8th AF, although his aviation interest extend somewhat beyond that -- do a
google or amazon.com search on Roger A. Freeman. ISTR that he's also
involved in the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library in Norwich, England -

http://www.2ndair.org.uk/new%20pages/library.htm

Guy