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The twenty-seven stories in this book serve as a graphic reminder of the selfless heroism of Americas World War II Army Air Forces flyers and how necessary they were to achieve Allied victory. Wolfgang Samuel and the pilots he interviewed reveal the peril these men faced to achieve a daunting task, impossible without their bravery. And their sacrifices were stunningAmerican bomber crews suffered the highest casualties (KIA, MIA, POW, wounded) of all American armed services in World War II. The stories preserved in this book bear that grave danger out. A member of a heavy bomber crew in the 8th Air Force in the period from mid-1942 to spring 1944 was less likely to survive than a US Marine fighting on Iwo Jima or Okinawa.
The stories in this unique book are about men who went face to face with their adversaries, who saw their buddies die, who crashed planes, and who became prisoners of war. Many later went on to become the backbone of the postwar Air Force, serving in Korea and Vietnam and during the Cold War.
Young Ken Chilstrom led a flight of eight A-36 fighter bombers on a low-level foray in Italy. Only he and two others came home. Bob Hoover thought he could take on the entire German air force, but on his first mission he was shot down, nearly perished, and suffered the remainder of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp. Wolfgang Samuels new book is all about men like Ken, Bob, and the many friends they lost, who saw World War II through to the end and gave freedom to so many others.
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IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM
IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM
Stories of Courage and Sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces Flyers
WOLFGANG W. E. SAMUEL
COLONEL, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (RETIRED)
FOREWORD BY JAMES F. TENT
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI / JACKSON
www.upress.state.ms.us
The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses.
Copyright 2015 by University Press of Mississippi
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
First printing 2015
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.
In defense of freedom : stories of courage and sacrifice of World War II Army Air Forces flyers / Wolfgang W.E. Samuel, Colonel, United States Air Force (Retired) ; foreword by James F. Tent.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-62846-217-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-62674-594-0 (ebook) 1. World War, 19391945Personal narratives, American. 2. World War, 19391945Aerial operations, American. 3. United States. Army Air ForcesBiography. 4. Air pilots, MilitaryUnited StatesBiography. 5. World War, 19391945Campaigns. I. Title.
D790.2.S26 2015
940.5449730922dc23 2014045127
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
Dedicated to the young men of the United States Army Air Forces who flew into the face of fear to free our world from tyranny.
When they finished their work, in spite of horrific losses, the Empire of the Rising Sun was history, as was Hitlers Germany and Mussolinis Italy.
Their courage and sacrifice helped make possible the world we now live in.
We owe them great thanks for what they accomplished and the sacrifices they made for you and me.
CONTENTS
Robert P. WalkerMosquito/C-54/B-66/Test Pilot
RCAF, 8th Air Force
David M. TaylorB-17/C-54/C-47
8th Air Force
Charles P. JohnsonB-17
8th Air Force
POW StalagLuft I, Barth, Germany
Byron A. Dobbs Jr.P-38/F-5/B-26
5th Air Force
POW Korea
Edgar E. McElroyB-25
5th Air Force
One of Doolittles Raiders
Robert S. HamillB-25/C-54/KC-97
12th Air Force
Russell B. Witte Jr.B-25/Test Pilot
Western Desert Air Force
9th/12th Air Force
Charles E. SchrefflerP-38/F-51
12th Air Force
Kenneth O. ChilstromA-36/Me 262/Test Pilot
12th Air Force
Robert M. SlaneB-17/B-26/B-47E
8th Air Force
POW StalagLuft III, Sagan, Germany
Harold R. AustinC-54/RB-45C/RB-47E
In Pilot Training When War Ended
Joseph J. GyulavicsB-29/RB-47H
In Navigator Training When War Ended
Samuel E. PizzoB-17/RB-47H/A-12
15th Air Force
Marion C. MixsonB-24/RB-45C/RB-47H/U-2
15th Air Force
Bernard T. NolanB-24/B-17
8th Air Force
Robert J. AnspachP-47/Me 262/Fw 190/F-86
1st Tactical Air Force (Provisional)
Lloyd M. N. WenzelP-38/F-86
9th Air Force
Frederick B. McIntoshP-47/Fw 190/TA 152/Ju 290
9th Air Force
Roy W. BrownP-47/Me 262
12th Air Force
1st Tactical Air Force (Provisional)
Albert S. TuckerP-38/F-80/Gloster Meteor
8th Air Force
POW StalagLuft I, Barth, Germany
Robert A. HooverSpitfire/Fw 190/Test Pilot/Barnstormer
15th Air Force
POW StalagLuft I, Barth, Germany
Frederick LeibyB-17
15th Air Force
POW StalagLuft III, Sagan, Germany
Arthur E. ExonP-40/P-47
9th Air Force
POW StalagLuft III Sagan, Germany
Robert C. StrobellP-47/Me 262
8th Air Force
Chasten L. BowenB-17
8th Air Force
POW Buchenwald Concentration Camp, StalagLuft III, Sagan, Germany
Charles E. Myers Jr.B-25/F9F/Test Pilot
5th Air Force
James F. SetchellMosquito/F-5
12th Air Force
TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AAA | Antiaircraft artillery |
AAF | Army Air Forces |
AFB | Air Force Base |
AGL | Above ground level |
Aileron | Moveable wing control surface to bank airplane |
Bf | Bayrische Flugzeugwerke (builder of the Bf 109 and Bf 110), renamed Messerschmitt A.G. in 1938. All subsequent Messerschmitt aircraft designs received the Me instead of the Bf prefix. |
CG | Center of gravity |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
CPMB | Captured Personnel and Materiel Branch (AAF) |
DFC | Distinguished Flying Cross |
DulagLuft | Durchgangslager at Oberurselthe initial POW processing center for Allied airmen shot down over Germany or occupied countries |
ECM | Electronic countermeasures |
EGT | Exhaust gas temperature |
ETO | European Theater of Operations |
EW | Electronic warfare |
FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
Flak | German antiaircraft gun (Fliegerabwehrkanone) |
Flap | Moveable winglet at inboard trailing edge of wing to provide increased lift at reduced airspeed |
GCA | Ground Control Approach radar |
Gestapo | GermanGeheime Staatspolizei (secret police under the Nazis) |
ILS | Instrument Landing System |
IP | Initial Point (entering a bomb run against a target) |
IR | Infrared |
Luftwaffe | German Air Force |
MiG | Russian aircraft designed by the Mikoyan and Gurovich design bureau such as the MiG 15/17/19 and 21 |
MP | Military police |
MTO | Mediterranean Theater of Operations |
NCO | Noncommissioned officer |
OSS | Office of Special Services (predecessor organization to the CIA) |
POW | Prisoner of war |
PSP | Perforated steel planking |
RAF | Royal Air Force (United Kingdom) |
Rally Point | Where the formation of bombers reassembles after the bomb run |
RCAF | Royal Canadian Air Force |
RLM | Reichsluftfahrtministerium, the Nazi German air staff |
ROK | Republic of Korea (South Korea) |
RPM | Revolutions per minute (measure of combustion engine efficiency) |
R&R | Rest & Recreation |
RTU | Replacement training unit |
SAC | Strategic Air Command |
SAM | Surface to air missile |
SEA | Southeast Asia |
SHAEF | Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (WW II Europe) |
SRS | Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron |
SRW |
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