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UPL 15969

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15969
  • Description: Edward Appel as a Lt in 1944.

UPL 15970

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15970
  • Description: On April 16th, 2015 I started with my husband, Tim, the escape route of my father, Edward Appel, near Zangberg, Germany. He was flying a P46...

UPL 15972

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15972
  • Description: Dad got to the family Schrank on the 18th of April. He had not eaten in two days, since the crash on the 16th. The family of Josef und Katrinia...

UPL 15973

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15973
  • Description: The Schrank family house on the right is the original house Edward Appel had visited on April 18, 1945. He knocked on the small window to the left of...

UPL 15974

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15974
  • Description: We finished our walk on the 23rd of April in Tagmersheim, like dad did. He knocked on the window of the Wimmer family and Michael and Josefa invited...

UPL 15976

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15976
  • Description: Pictures from the family Wimmer. Bottom left is Josefa and Michael. Bottom right is the house as it was back in 1945. Edward Appel stayed in the...

UPL 15993

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15993
  • Description: History in local town of Surbough France of the Sept 5 1944 crash.

UPL 15995

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15995
  • Description: Hiding place of Edward Appel in Hochfelden France. He hid here with the son of the family, Georges Wencker, from Sept 8 to November 23, 1944. Edward...

UPL 15996

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15996
  • Description: Outside of the Wencker home in 2015. Juliann Pendolino and David Appel, children of Edward Appel, visited this home on Thanksgiving Day November 27...

UPL 15997

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15997
  • Description: French Resistance, Lucie Grasser on left, Edward in middle, and daughter, Frances Wencker. Frances wrote very good English and stayed in contact with...

UPL 15998

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 15998
  • Description: Liberation Day 23rd Nov 1944 in Hochfelden France. Picture of townspeople, French Resistance/Underground, Edward Appel, Georges and Louis Wencker,...

UPL 16000

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: Edward Appel collection
  • Object Number: UPL 16000
  • Description: Louis and Marie Wencker. On Sept 8 1944, Edward approach this couple as they were harvesting in their field near Hochfelden, France. He war cold and...

UPL 25606

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: 100th Bomb Group collection
  • Object Number: UPL 25606
  • Description: Averil M. Hanna at work on a B-17 ball turret.

UPL 25607

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: 100th Bomb Group collection
  • Object Number: UPL 25607
  • Description: Averil M. Hanna

UPL 25608

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: 100th Bomb Group collection
  • Object Number: UPL 25608
  • Description: Shot taken during the Berlin Airlift from tailgunner position

UPL 25609

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: 100th Bomb Group collection
  • Object Number: UPL 25609
  • Description: Loading up for a mission

UPL 25610

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: 100th Bomb Group collection
  • Object Number: UPL 25610
  • Description: Aircrew of the Piccadilly Lilly II. Averil M. Hanna served as armorer.

UPL 25611

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: 100th Bomb Group collection
  • Object Number: UPL 25611
  • Description: Special Delivery

UPL 25612

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: 100th Bomb Group collection
  • Object Number: UPL 25612
  • Description: Coffee break

UPL 25613

  • Media Type: Image
  • Collection Name: 100th Bomb Group collection
  • Object Number: UPL 25613
  • Description: Flak