Mustang ground attack mission. Here he takes heavy damage from German flak and has to make it back home!
The German anti-aircraft guns had a hold on the Eighth Air Force. The Eighth issued flak reports that sounded like weather forecasts. Here's the flak report for September 10, 1944, when my father ...
Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library continues Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Hickman's story of survival in World War II.
German flak didn't seem to bother German fighter planes. They poured in even when their own flak was thickest. Approaching the bombing run, the doors of the ships in front of us could be seen ...
They dropped clouds of metallic foil strips to throw off German radar and flak gunners. Targeting crowded residential neighborhoods, the bombers ignited an unquenchable firestorm that destroyed ...