Howard Engstrom

Military

Recon flight over Germany on VE Day, May 1945.



3 Battle Stars



On V-E day I flew on a B-17 as an observer, over Germany for 8 hours photographing destroyed bridges and factories



1 silver star; 2 bronze stars

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Units served with

Brigadier-General Frank Alton Armstrong Jr. during a visit to the 305th Bomb Group Official caption on image: "(GPR-83-9305) (18-6-43) (Brig. Gen. Armstrong..."
  • Unit Hierarchy: Division
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Born

Chicago, Illinois 27 December 1920

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self