by Steve Snyder | Feb 10, 2015 | Historical
Below is a translation from an article that appeared in the Belgium newspaper, l’avenir Thanks to the crew of the B 17 Sunday, the civil authorities and made military respect to the crew of the B 17 fortress that crashed in Macquenoise. The day of February 8,...
by Steve Snyder | Feb 6, 2015 | Historical, Video
February 8 is Super Museum Sunday at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force located in Pooler, Georgia, and admission is free all day. During the event, I will be signing my book, SHOT DOWN, out of the Museum Gift Store from 10 am-4 pm. It was 71 years...
by Steve Snyder | Feb 1, 2015 | Reviews
WOW, what a read! I highly recommend this book to broaden your knowledge of air missions over Europe during WWII! This book is a memoir of Steve Snyder’s father, Howard Snyder. Howard was the pilot in command of the B-17 Susan Ruth and along with the nine other...
by Steve Snyder | Jan 29, 2015 | Historical
Hundreds of spectators, including World War II veterans, current military service members, and museum volunteers, crammed into The Mighty Eighth Museum on January 28 as the museum dedicated the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber that’s been dubbed the City of Savannah....
by Steve Snyder | Jan 28, 2015 | Historical
The Eighth Bomber Command was activated as part of the United States Army Air Forces on January 28, 1942 at Hunter Field in Savannah, Georgia. Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker took the headquarters to England the next month to prepare for its assignment of conducting...
by Steve Snyder | Jan 27, 2015 | Historical
Each year on February 8, a ceremony is held at the B-17 Susan Ruth Memorial to remember and honor its crew. This coming February 8th will commemorate the 71st anniversary of the Susan Ruth being attacked and shot down by two German Focke-Wulf fighters; crashing at La...
by Steve Snyder | Jan 26, 2015 | Reviews
Steve Snyder has done a magnificent job of producing a tribute to the B-17 crews of the Eighth Air Force generally, and the people of the Resistance in Occupied Europe. The story he has to tell is based on the recollections and contemporary letters of his father...
by Steve Snyder | Jan 17, 2015 | Reviews
Normally I never begin a book review like this—but allow me to just come right out and say it: this book is excellent. Steve Snyder’s Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth is extraordinary. When the book arrived in the...
by Steve Snyder | Jan 3, 2015 | Historical
Meet The Author: Steve Snyder Event Date: Saturday, January 10, 2015 – 10:30 am Discover the extraordinary true events of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth, that was shot down over the French/Belgium border on February 8, 1944. Buy the...
by Steve Snyder | 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...
by Steve Snyder | 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...
by Steve Snyder | 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...
by Steve Snyder | Dec 17, 2014 | Historical
My long-time, good friend, John Bowden, arranged for me to make a PowerPoint presentation before his Kiwanis Club’s monthly luncheon meeting at Meadowlark Golf Club in Huntington Beach, CA.
by Steve Snyder | Dec 16, 2014 | Historical
On Monday, December 8th, I had the pleasure of making a presentation to a large group of WW II, Korean, and Vietnam Veterans at the Wendy’s restaurant in West Hills, California. The organization was started 12 years ago by a handful of WW II flyers and took the...
