American Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:45:03 +0000 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:45:03 +0000 Whitebeam Battlefield Research Forum http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/forums/american.89/ Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:32:51 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/american-pows-transit-points-in-normandy.21/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/american-pows-transit-points-in-normandy.21/ invalid@example.com (sirjahn) sirjahn
South of the Douve is a bit more of a tangle and seems like most went to a place...

American POWs transit points in Normandy]]> 83 Sat, 09 May 2015 11:24:42 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/glider-pilot-pws-at-rennes-military-hospital.211/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/glider-pilot-pws-at-rennes-military-hospital.211/ invalid@example.com (sirjahn) sirjahn

1LT O/370984 Bolan, Richard V. US Fracture head of right Tibia AAF 437th Trans Group 86th Troop Carrier Squadron Glider Pilot flying CG-4A crashed 6 June MACR# 6474 13-Jun-44
F/O T/122010 Kuller, Floyd K. US Fracture head of right Tibia AAF...

Glider Pilot PWs at Rennes Military Hospital]]> 45 Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:23:46 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/curtis-l-johnson-hq-company-3-508th-pir.148/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/curtis-l-johnson-hq-company-3-508th-pir.148/ invalid@example.com (sirjahn) sirjahn
"On the night of June 5, 1944 Curtis was one of the hundreds of men who loaded aboard C-47 and C-53 aircraft at RAF Folkingham for the transit of the English Channel in Operation Overlord, Mission Boston as the D-Day invasion of France got underway. As it turned out, he was to...

Curtis L. Johnson (HQ Company 3/508th PIR]]> 2 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:34:34 +0000 http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/leavitt-shertzer-15th-usaaf-italy.147/ http://normandy.whitebeamimages.ie/forum/threads/leavitt-shertzer-15th-usaaf-italy.147/ invalid@example.com (Pat Curran) Pat Curran
Our newest member, Alane Alden, has kindly allowed me to post some documents from his private collection pertaining to a B-24 navigator with the 15th Air Force in Italy. His name was Leavitt Shertzer (Lev for short) of the 464th Bomb Group. Even though Lev's story is not directly Normandy related, he did end up in Barracks #44, Center Compound in Stalag Luft III along with at least one Normandy glider pilot, Alfred J. Sapa (Pilot of Horsa #10, 'Mission 'Keokuk').

The first...

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