Ww Ii- We Were There

T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson EdS

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WW II books of 50 or more stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews, flying deadly missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II. His writing is based on his teenage combat experiences as a B-17 radio/gunner on twenty combat missions with the 490th Bomb group, diaries and interviews of veterans of various bomb groups. Teenagers who volunteered to fly were trained and went into combat before they could legally vote or buy a drink. They signed up for the Army’s Air Cadet Program and became a part of the greatest air armada in the world. Any of the gunners on a bomber crew were teenagers and twenty-four was the average age of pilots, bombardiers and navigators. Veterans’ diaries give amazing reports of fighter attacks, flak damage and being shot down to become Prisoners of War. They were the youngsters who flew daylight bombing missions in the Mighty Eighth and destroyed Germany’s military and war industry.

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• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 08 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665577601
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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WW II- WE WERE THERE
Combat Diaries
T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson, EdS


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Published by AuthorHouse 12/08/2022
 
ISBN: 978-1-6655-7759-5 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6655-7760-1 (e)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Section 1
The Greatest Generation Begins
Liberty Belle Flies Again
Liberty Belles’ Combat Story
The Holocaust = Genocide
The Auschwitz Album
Pact of Steel = Axis
Battle of Britain
Flying Tigers
Canadian Royal Air Force
Pearl Harbor – the War at Home
Rosie the Riveter
Section 2
Eighth Air Corps History
B-17 Specs
Mighty Eighth Mission
Ambush
The “Wiley Witch” Ball Turret
Combat Zone Dangers
Diary of Thorpe Abbotts -
Alconbury Bomb Accident
The O2 Incident
B-24 Crash Landing
The Kiel Mission
Brig. Gen. Bedford Forrest III
Kiel Mission, June 13, 1943 - Version 2
Rough Missions
The Bomb-run
Anti - aircraft Shells = Flak
Bail Out?
The Jinxed Ground Crew
Section 3
Fighter War
German Fighters – The Luftwaffe
Lt. Colonel Danny M. Crist
96 th Bomb Group 13 Apr 1944
Fighter Escorts to Target
Lt. Alden Rigby’s “Winter War”
Capt. James R. Stout’s Combat Log
“Swampfire 100 Missions
The D-Day Highway
Section 4
D-Day June 6, 1944
S/Sgt. Merrill St John
T/ Sgt. Tom “Dody’ Newkirk
General Theodore Roosevelt
PFC. Mario Berto - St. Lo Friendly Fire
St. Lo — Operation Cobra
95 th Bomb Group
Lt. William “Ed” Charles
First Shuttle Mission
Poltava
T/Sgt. Doyle Leslie Byers, RO/Gunner
B-17 ‘Our Fortune’ Lucky Crew
Corporal Ralph Alexander
Mechanic Story
Section 5
Princess of York - B-17 for Princess Elizabeth
1 st Lt. Phil Arbogast
Black Bread March of Stalag Luft IV
Bomb Run on Target
“Tex” Taylor’s Diary - 1943
Dirtyfoot Jones
Section 6
Uncle Sam’s “Greetings”
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Fast Forward 77 Years
Troop Trains
Basic Training, Amarillo, Texas
Sioux Falls Radio School
Gunner’s Silver Wings –Yuma AZ
The Lt. Templeton Crew
Town Pump Bar
First Furlough
Queen Mary — New York Harbor
Camp Kilmer N J
Section 7
490 th Bomb Group Eye England
Our Eye 490 th Base
Mission Alert - Dec. 5, 1944
B-17 Combat
The Mess Hall – Briefing
Into The Overcast
Take-off – Formation Assembly
Thirty-six Plane Box Formation
Berlin –First Mission
Combat Action
Aborting – A Big Decision
#2 Lutzkendorf Dec 6
First London Pass – Dec 10
Doodlebugs -Vl and V2 Missles
2 nd Lt. Corbin Willis –POW
Hutch # 3 Hannover — Dec. 15
Stuttgart Dec. 16
Flak Guns
Flak Happy!
My Christmas Eve - 1944
Fighter Pilot Claim Report
Section 8
General Frederik W. Castle Citation
Sgt. Arlie Propes
Lead Crew
Radio Room
PFF Radar (Mickey)
Lead Crew Changes
Bad Kreuznach
Gunner Notes
Sgt. Joe Cosmo
Section 9
Battle of the Bulge Dec. 16
Malmedy Massacre Dec.17, 1944
Sgt. John Hill
Aschaffenburg, Jan. 3
The B-24 Pilot’s Ring
Oxygen Mask Troubles
T/Sgt. James S. Peters Sr.
Rough Missions
Bail Out?
T/Sgt. Howard Tuchin’s Thirteenth Mission
Hutch # 8 Augsburg
Ball Turret Trap
Hutch # 9 Sterkade-Rheine
Templeton Crew Flak Casualty
# 11 - Frankfort Feb. 17
Snow Days
# 12 - Ansbach Air Medal #Two
# 12-B Ulm
#15 - Plauen    March 21
Deadly Plauen Mission
#16 – Hannover
Parchim - ME-109 Fighter Attack
Roudnice, Czechoslovakia #19
490 th Black Thursday
German SS Atrocity
# 18 Nauen (Berlin)
Mercy Missions
Stars and Stripes - Chowhound Missions
Bibliography

Dedicated to
Dr. Susan Elizabeth Hutchinson - Typing
Mike Alexander - Technical support
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The author holds three Indiana University degrees and is retired from 37 years as an elementary teacher, Principal and Assistant to the Superintendent. Fifty year Mason, Rotary Paul Harris Award, Presbyterian Elder. Hutch uses the short story format and self-drawn sketches to encourage readers from twelve to ninety-six. His goal is to honor those who served to save our Country’s freedom and to educate the present generations.
T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson is a WW II Eighth Air Corps veteran of twenty missions as a teenage B-17 Radio Operator/ gunner. The ninety- seven year-old educator has published six WW II short story books to record and preserve 300 stories of WW II history of B-17 and B-24 air crews, fighter pilots and POWs. Stories gathered in the past twenty years from TV interviews, memoirs and diaries of veterans. The majority of WW II vets are gone, but their WW II memories are saved.
He also wrote “On Leatherwood Creek” which describes his boyhood prior to WW II and “Hutch’s Rainbow Bridge, Ninety-three Years of Pets” continues with family stories of all the pets in his life and escapades after retirement to his dream home on a farm.
WW II books of 50 or more stories of boys on B-17 Flying Fortress crews, flying deadly missions with the Eighth Air Force in World War II. His writing is based on his teenage combat experiences as a B-17 radio/gunner on twenty combat missions with the 490 th Bomb group, diaries and interviews of veterans of various bomb groups. Teenagers who volunteered to fly were trained and went into combat before they could legally vote or buy a drink. They signed up for the Army’s Air Cadet Program and became a part of the greatest air armada in the world. Any of the gunners on a bomber crew were teenagers and twenty-four was the average age of pilots, bombardiers and navigators. Veterans’ diaries give amazing reports of fighter attacks, flak damage and being shot down to become Prisoners of War. They were the youngsters who flew daylight bombing missions in the Mighty Eighth and destroyed Germany’s military and war industry.
Read my books –see my FREE videos to know what we did!
T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson – Air Medal – with two clusters – 20 missions teenage radio operator/gunner – 490 th Bomb Group (H) Sqd 848 – Eye, England
Six WW II books- 250 true combat stories based interviews and diaries!
Autographed copies at < [e-mail] > or 812-508-0062 $22 — free shipping 50 to 60 stories in each also online
Through These Eyes- author’s diary of 20 Eighth Air Force missions
Bombs Away! 40 combat stories and 25 Great Depression boyhood stories
Boys in the B-17 – Teenagers, too young to vote, but not to fight
B- 17 Memories from Memphis Belle to Victory – stories from 8 th and 15 th airmen– 9 th Infantry – POWs — Holocaust
Latest - B-17s, Fighters and Flak – includes ace P-51 pilot’s journal
New — WW II – We Were There some of best combat diaries
Also 2 fun books On Leatherwood Creek - Indiana Bicentennial project - veteran’s boyhood in the poverty of the Great Depression Hutch’s Rainbow Bridge , 93 years of pets — 20 sketches by author
Free videos – Search my full name or “T/Sgt. James Lee Hutchinson = more
1. “Tales from the Greatest Generation with James Lee Hutchinson” by Smithville Media2.
2. “Flying Fortress: Wings Over Europe”
3. “Hutch-B-17 Flak and Fighters”
4. “Arming the B-17 Bombers”
There will never be another air war like World War II. Computer guided missiles have replaced the “Boys in the B-17.” However, within living memory, men left the earth in 1,000 plane formations and fought major battles five miles high, leaving a legacy that should never be forgotten! Today, at age ninety-seven, I hope my short stories give readers a glimpse of history as I lived it in World War II.
AUTHOR HONORED BY LOCAL, STATE AND NATIONAL LEADERS
2006 Thank-you letter from Queen Elizabeth’s Lady in Waiting
2008 Indiana General Assembly Concurrent Resolution 50 by Sen. Brent Steele, Rep. Eric Koch, Lt. Governor Becky Skillman
2008 - My Resolution, which not only honored his valuable service to the United States during World War II, but also honored him as a unique Hoosier author. It was my privilege to have the State of Indiana honor Lee Hutchinson by Special Resolution. Through his down-home insight about life in Indiana, interspersed with his candor and sense of humor, Lee has done something I have always wanted to do – write books about how our generation grew up. Respectfully, Brent Steele Indiana State Senator
2015 Grand Marshal Bedford July 4 Parade — by Bedford Mayor Shawna Girgis and Governor Mike Pence, keynote speaker and sharing my Grand Marshal convertible ride.
2018 - Astronaut Charlie Walker, former student, particpated in Old Lincoln School Memorial Project
2015 Congress