(Document Source:) This is the ultimate and improved version of this archive by Willis 'Sam' S. Cole and Doc Snafu. This is not just a simple republishing. A series of articles laying out the true events behind the crash of the Gott & Metzger B-17G and the creation of Sam's best seller book The Best Kept Secret Of World War Two published a couple of years ago and still available on Amazon. I think it is also interesting to let you know that Sam have published a second book, also available on Amazon under the title Why We Killed Patton...

(PART FOUR) Document Source: Historical Research Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The World War One Diary of Col Frank P. Lahm, Edited by Albert F. Simpson, Historical Research Division, Transcripted by Doc Snafu (Personal views or opinions expressed or implied in this publication are not to be construed as carrying official sanction of the Department of the Air Force or the Air University. This publication has been reviewed and approved by competent personnel of the preparing command in accordance with current directives on doctrine, policy, essentiality, propriety, and quality. April 13 (Sunday). Conference at...

(PART THREE) Document Source: Historical Research Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The World War One Diary of Col Frank P. Lahm, Edited by Albert F. Simpson, Historical Research Division, Transcripted by Doc Snafu (Personal views or opinions expressed or implied in this publication are not to be construed as carrying official sanction of the Department of the Air Force or the Air University. This publication has been reviewed and approved by competent personnel of the preparing command in accordance with current directives on doctrine, policy, essentiality, propriety, and quality. September 26 (Thursday). This is...

(PART TWO) Document Source: Historical Research Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The World War One Diary of Col Frank P. Lahm, Edited by Albert F. Simpson, Historical Research Division, Transcripted by Doc Snafu (Personal views or opinions expressed or implied in this publication are not to be construed as carrying official sanction of the Department of the Air Force or the Air University. This publication has been reviewed and approved by competent personnel of the preparing command in accordance with current directives on doctrine, policy, essentiality, propriety, and quality. April 21 (Sunday). This past...

✅ This post was reviewed and corrected as part of the 2025 Historical Accuracy Update.Reviewed by Doc Snafu on January 20, 2026. Document Source: Historical Research Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The World War One Diary of Col Frank P. Lahm, Edited by Albert F. Simpson, Historical Research Division, Transcripted by Doc Snafu (Personal views or opinions expressed or implied in this publication are not to be construed as carrying official sanction of the Department of the Air Force or the Air University. This publication has been reviewed and approved by competent personnel of...

(Document Source: The material presented herewith was prepared by Headquarters Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, Intelligence Section, and is published for official use. January 1946) FOREWORD Eight months have elapsed since Germany went down in crashing defeat. Many of her war leaders were rounded up and placed in prisoner-of-war camps where they had ample time to reflect on the external and internal causes of that defeat. Some place the blame on a rotten political system, some on poor military leadership, but foremost among all the reasons emerges the crushing weight of accelerated Allied Air Might which finally beat the...

Document Source: US Army Command & General Staff College, Operation Argument 'Big Week', February 20-25, 1944, Published on Academia.edu by John M. Curatola The US Army Air Corps (USAAC) developed the idea of daylight precision bombing during the interwar years of the 1930s. The concept was an elegant idea that hoped to bring victory earlier, cheaper, and without the long bloody stalemate experienced during the First World War. The USAAC based this concept on the idea that a modern industrial military power had various points of vulnerability. If these points of vulnerability were identified and targeted correctly, the enemy nation’s...

Document Source: US Army Air Forces Airfields and Bases in the European Theater of Operation, 1944-1945, WD 1945 After the landing in Normandy, followed by some weeks later with the landing in the Provence (South France), the US Army Air Force started to move ahead its Airfields to reduce the fly distances between the bombing targets assigned in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany and the home’s Airfields in the UK. This started with the North part of France on Jun 7, 1944, then in the South part when the troops landed on the beaches. LIST & LOCATION (Note: Numerical Dates are in...

Document Source: US Army Air Force Stations, Mediterranean Theater of Operation, 1945, WD Army Air Forces – Mediterranean Theater Station List – 1 May 1945 Algiers, Algeria 56 Army Airways Communications System Group – Hq (AAF ATC) Amendola, Italy 2 Bombardment Group (Heavy) – Hq (5 BW) 13 Weather Squadron – Det (AAF MTO) 20 Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) (5 BW) 21 Engineer Aviation Regiment – I Co (AAFEC MTO) 49 Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) (5 BW) 50 Air Service Squadron (XV AFSC) 96 Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) (5 BW) 97 Bombardment Group (Heavy) – Hq (5 BW) 339 Air Service Squadron (XV AFSC) 340 Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) (5 BW) 341 Bombardment...

Document Source: Army Air Force Archives, XIX Tactical Command, 1944. The XIX Tactical Air Command (XIX TAC) (Fly Seek Destroy) is an inactive US Air Force unit. The unit’s last assignment was with the Ninth Air Force based at Biggs Field, Texas. It was inactivated on March 31, 1946. During WWII, the mission of the XIX TAC was to support Gen George S. Patton’s US Third Army with tactical air support throughout the army’s advance from formation in France on August 1, 1944, until VE-Day. Formed in England in early 1944, the XIX TAC was a command and control organization, designed...

The Doolittle Raid of Apr 18, 1942, was the first air raid by the USA to strike the Japanese home islands during WW-2. The mission was notable in that it was the only operation in which USAAF bombers were launched from a US Navy aircraft carrier. It was the longest combat mission ever flown by the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. This raid had its start in a desire by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, expressed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a meeting at the White House on Dec 21, 1941, that Japan be bombed as soon as possible...

Army Air Force Stations This article is a republication of the Guide to the Stations where US Army Air Forces Personnel served in the United Kingdom and on the Continent During World War II. Initially compiled and published by Captain Barry J. Anderson, US Air Force, this one was corrected and encoded by Doc Snafu for the European Center of Military History. Abbreviations: (AAA) Anti-Aircraft Artillery; (AAF) Army Air Force; (AF) Air Force; (AFCC) Air Force Composite Command; (Ammo) Ammunition; (Anti-Sub) Anti-Submarine; (Avn) Aviation; (BAD) Base Air Depot; (BADA) Base Air Depot Area; (Bn) Battalion; (Bomb) Bombardment; (CADA) Continental Air Depot...