Get A Taste Of Combat in a B-17

by | Dec 29, 2014 | Historical

It’s hard to imagine what the young bomber crews’ experienced as they flew their B-17s and B-24s through flak and battled enemy fighters.  Add to that watching their sister ships in the formations get it and blow up or fall from the sky. The tension and...

B-17 Flying Fortress Scrapped After WWII

by | Dec 19, 2014 | Historical

B-17s served in every World War II combat zone. The aircraft is best known for daylight strategic bombing of German industrial targets. The B-17 flew mostly out of England, equipping 26 of the 40 bombardment groups of the 8th Air Force. After the end of World War II...

A Greatest Generation Birthday!

by | Dec 18, 2014 | Historical

Today, Helen Prietz Eike Smith turned 93! Helen was the wife of George Eike, co-pilot of the B-17 Susan Ruth. My father, first pilot Howard Snyder, went through transitional training with George at Pyote, Texas and operational crew training at Dalhart, Texas before...