William W. Roberts Mission December 29, 1944

Dec. 29, 1944--Bressanone Railroad Bridge, Northern Italy mountains.

ROUGHEST MISSION. Very accurate, heavy flak and came off target with following damage: Lost #1 engine. Gas leak in bomb bay. Navigation instruments shot out. Tail turret rendered inoperative. All compasses shot out. Old #47 took a beating that day, but Sawyer and Eldridge brought her home all alone. Went through terrific thunderstorm about 50 miles from home. Wrote Sparks up for DFC for his stopping gas leak in bomb bay WITH HIS BARE HANDS IN BELOW ZERO WEATHER. (He didn't get it.)

Waist gunners Rye and Rafferty got Purple Hearts for slight flak wounds in their backs. More than 50 holes in plane.

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At the 2017 reunion, the board approved the donation of our archives to the Briscoe Center for American History, located on the University of Texas - Austin campus.

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My Trip to San Pancrazio

October 2019


Reunion

NOTE change in month !!!

DATES: Oct 26-29, 2023

CITY:Tucson, AZ

HOTEL: Double Tree Suites Airport hotel

7051 South Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85756

520-225-0800


Click here to read about the reunion details.

previous reunions


For Sale

The Other Doolittle Raid


The Broken Wings of Zlatibor


The Liberandos


Three Crawford Brothers


Liberando: Reflections of a Reluctant Warrior


376th Bomb Group Mission History


The Last Liberator


Full Circle


Shadows of Wings


Ten Men, A "Flying Boxcar," and A War


I Survived Ploesti


A Measure of Life


Shot Down In Yugoslavia


Stories of My Life


Attack


Born in Battle


Bombardier's Diary


Lost Airmen


Langdon Liberando