Si Liberman
MilitaryRichard E. Lester Crew
466th BG - 787th BS
Standing Left to Right: Fred Bonnet (FE), Larry Baker (WG), Richard E. Lester (P), William Kroll (N), Joseph Kramer (NG), Joseph Hamilton (WG)
Kneeling Left to Right: unidentified, Si Lieberman (R/O), Robert Bartuska (CP)
Combat Tour - 9 March 1945 - 21 April 1945 466th Bomb Group collection
Attlebridge Arsenal
B-24 crew member. In A news article in 2010 he reminisces about WW II and VE day. He was on a pass to London when VE day occurred. For 2 days over 1 million people went to London to celebrate and so did he! He even had to get an extension on his pass because all trains stopped service due to the crowds! He met a nice young lady who couldn't get home and they spent the night with hundreds of others in St James Park trying to sleep. She said after the end of rationing she couldn't wait to get a pair of nylon hose from the U. S. When he got back to the states several months later he mailed her 3 pair!
Since retiring as editor of the Asbury Park Sunday Press, New Jersey's second largest newspaper, Si Liberman keeps busy traveling and writing for a number of major publications. In recent months, his stories have appeared in the Boston Globe, St. Petersburg Times, Dallas Morning News, Newark Star-Ledger, Miami Herald, Palm Beach Daily News, Porthole Magazine and Boca Raton Magazine. He summers at the Jersey Shore and winters in Palm Beach.
http://www.thelocal.de/20130405/48947
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 66896780
- Highest Rank: Other
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: Earthquake McGoon
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Enlisted |
27 August 1943 | ||
Other Combat Mission |
18 March 1945 | “Finally hit the ‘Big B’ (Berlin). Target visual. Flak not quite intense. Visibility good. Lots of damage. Rail yards a mass of bomb craters. Mission lasted 7½ hours. All went well. One flak hole.” – March 18, 1945 | |
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Revisions
Added " / " in the "Role/job" field as a Separator to aid readability.
Corrected a typo in the "Summary biography" - “reminisces” was misspelled.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL by Wassom & Brassfield, page 347