One of the things that sets Bombing Hitler's Hometown apart from most other books about the air war is that I weave in the stories of...

Twenty-eight American airmen lost their lives on the 25 April 1945 bombing raid on Linz, Austria. Due to tough editorial choices that had...

In Bombing Hitler's Hometown (page 229), we read a poem from Mrs. M. Gajnak included in a letter to my grandmother, Harriet Croissant....

“We were on the bomb run, and we noticed that the anti-aircraft fire from the ground was very accurate,” First Lieutenant Tom Bullock,...

Days after the 25 April 1945 bombing raid on Linz, Combat Command A (CCA) of the US Army’s 11th Armored Division was advancing on the...

I had the pleasure of talking to Paul Loeffler, the man behind Hometown Heroes Radio, on March 20, and the interview, my first for...

The harrowing tale of the 25 April 1945 mission to Linz, Austria, as experienced by 483rd Bomb Group pilot James E. Miller.

When my uncle Ellsworth was killed in a plane crash in September 1945, my grandmother began writing letters to the families of the other...

Ken Becker, a navigator in the 99th Bomb Group, was my friend, and spending hours with him on the deck of his lakeside home in Wisconsin...

I interviewed more than fifty survivors of the Linz mission of 25 April 1945, but I had to make some tough choices when it came to...

On the flight back to Italy after the harrowing mission to Linz on 25 April 1945, Staff Sergeant Bill Gorrall had watched a defeated...

Famed TV writer and producer Norman Lear passed away on December 5, 2023, at age 101. While most celebrations of his life have focused on...

I had to make tough editorial choices for Bombing Hitler's Hometown, given how much research material I collected. Here's a story I found...

Under the Yalta Agreement, signed by the Allied powers in February 1945, Allied prisoners of war (POWs) freed from German captivity by...

When the 485th Bomb Group arrived at Venosa airfield, Italy, in February 1944 to begin combat operations, it had 72 B-24 Liberator...

One of the most difficult editorial decisions I had to make for Bombing Hitler's Hometown was to cut the passage about my buddy, Ray...

After conducting so many interviews and so much primary-source research for Bombing Hitler's Hometown, it was inevitable that I would...

Although I interviewed more than fifty veterans for Bombing Hitler's Hometown, I couldn't use every story and anecdote in the book. I...

I interviewed more than fifty veterans for Bombing Hitler's Hometown, but I inevitably had to leave some material on the cutting room...

I conducted extensive interviews and research for Bombing Hitler's Hometown, but there was no way to include every story and anecdote in...