All visitors are invited to submit any rare or unusual photos to be shown on this web site. All contributors will have their names acknowledged on the photo to insure proper credit of the submitted work. All contributors will have the right to have the photo or work removed at any time.   There will be no cost for having the work shown on this web site. An appropriate photo or work can be e-mailed to this web site attention  Bill Fili  <basino@bellatlantic.net>.   Receipt will be acknowledged via e-mail.
 

General Eisenhower meeting with his troops on the eve of D-Day.   Ike knew of the perilous journey across the English Channel and tried to help as best he could to ease that awesome burden. It was an equally awesome burden for General Ike as he knew so many of his men may never return. (National Archives Photo)

 

Airborne Paratroopers beside their C-47 transport plane on the eve the D-Day invasion. Before the sun set on Normandy Beaches on D-Day only four men were still alive of the nineteen that parachuted onto hostile German held French land. (National Archives Photo)

     A few days before the 1994 Commemoration of D-Day the people of France and Belgium had 4,410 of their school children gather at the St. James military cemetery in Normandy.   Each was to sit in front of one cross.   Each had an American flag, a small white flower and a small white box.   At a given moment each was instructed to open the box. Out flew a homing pigeon that headed for the British shores - - symbolic of the souls of the fallen warriors returning to their home base.   This writer was not there but I am sure there wasn’t a dry eye that could be seen anywhere close by this cemetery.  (A-P Photo)
 

     National Archives photograph of President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at their Casablanca Meeting.   In the rear to the right is Colonel Jacob Smart (with the arrow above his head) the strategist that organized and trained the B-24 Liberator air crews in preparation for - - “Tidal Wave” - - the tree top attack on the Ploiesti Oil Complexes in Romania.   The details of the next twenty seven bombing attacks can be found in the published book “Passage to Valhalla”.
(National Archives Photo)
 

The lead B-24 Liberator (Teggie Ann), piloted by Colonel K. K. Compton Co-pilot Ralph Thompson and General Ent, was the flight deck observer.   This Is the plane and crew that is wrongly blamed for the wrong turn by most historians.   The true Analysis of that wrong turn is written into history among the Untold Stories of this web site and in the published book “ Passage to Valhalla”

 

This webmaster is seeking more Information about this Liberator.   The top of the fuselage that supported the elevator and rudder control cables were completely shot      away.   The pilot  - - another young American kid - - brought the plane and the crew safely back to their home base.   Landing was made with the use of only ailerons and engines   If any crew member reads this please contact this web site basino@bellatlantic.net (National Archives Photo)

 

Three USAF Generals of the USAF Mediterranean Theatre of War  General Nathan Twining Commanding Officer of the 15th Air Force with Generals Spaatz And Eaker.  (National Archives Photo)

 

Will a photo such as this ever be seen again. Four living former Presidents of the United States and one sitting President attending the funeral services of one former President  Richard M. Nixon.            Former Presidents living Gerald Ford, James Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Sitting President William Clinton. (Associated Press / Dennis Cook Photo)