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My Dad, Karl Eisele, Jr. and Mom (Janet Eisele) marrying in Boise, Idaho as Dad was stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho shortly before going to England to bomb the Reich.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier; Pathfinder Navigator
Initially on B-24 42-95024, the “Gypsy Queen” piloted by Leo Baumann. After its crash, reassigned to other planes. On the 20th mission in January 1945, plane was hit by flak and landed in Sweden. Interned in Sweden until 8 May 1945. B-24 42-51523, the...
17 January 1945
Military site : airfield
Planned as an RAF bomber airfield, Hardwick was used first by the 310th Bomb Group, equipped with B-25 Mitchells. In December 1943, the B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group moved in, and remained until the end of the war, flying over 330 missions....
Crash site
Other location
Other location
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| 30 April 2018 01:44:13 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Changes to collection |
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per son Ted Eisele |
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| 29 April 2018 22:02:00 | GratefulSonOfFlierEisele | Created entry with collection, caption, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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I am Karl’s son (1 of 5, actually). We have extensive albums and copies of Stars & Stripes that Dad kept and annotated, as well as his war letters. |
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