WWII Pilots Flight Log and Photo Album [A Piece of History]

[Dirkpitt289]

For those that follow me on Facebook you may have seen this earlier this week. This album and flight log belongs to a co-workers father who was a co-pilot on a B-24 Liberator in Europe during WWII. This is an AMAZING piece of history.

Flight log of 2nd Lt Lewis Goetz



Lt Goetz and his crew in front of their Liberator. LT Goetz is the second from the left, back row, in between the number 7 and 9





Check out these entries, Buzzed Eiffel Tower



Lost engines 1,2,+4. Lost hydrolics, bailed out over Austria, At the bottom you can see that after being liberated from the POW camp they crash landed becayse they ran out of fuel



An earlier entry shows events like Lost #2 engine, town obscured, dropped bombs, turned back. another shows the loss of engine #3









Here are a few pages from the photo album









Larger photo of crew with their names







B-24 Cockpit



LT Goetz sporting a friends hat which he mentions to have been wearing when being shot down













FLAK



A piece of the chute that saved LT Goetz's life over Austria









Letter signed by President Truman



I was blown away by these items, and I hope you guys enjoyed this as much as I did.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my post.

Till next time....

B - Strong

[PaulBradley]

Wow, that's a really interesting piece of history there! I hope your friend knows the historical value of what he has there. Neat, and thanks for sharing!

[Dirkpitt289]

Oh, he does

[iggie]

Fantastic piece of social history, and some wonderful reading.......
We will do well to never forget the efforts and in so many awful cases the ultimate sacrifice of so many that we who follow them are able to live a free life.
Thank you for taking the time to put this up

[Dirkpitt289]

Man, this was a pleasure despite the issues I with Photobucket. I still can't believe how awful it is to use it these days.

[jssel]

Thank you for sharing this Dirk. The silver doped Stermans most interesting. A terrific piece of history.

[MarkyM607]

That's some interesting and brilliant stuff. Always nice to be able to see something made at the time.

[bassman]

Amazing piece of history. Thanks for posting this.

[jamesaw]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing this.

[celt]

Thanks for sharing,very interesting.