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RSS FeedsWWII navigator Alfred Benjamin´s last mission: `Never forget´
(WorldNews Germany)

 
 

19 may 2019 06:04:46

 
WWII navigator Alfred Benjamin´s last mission: `Never forget´
(WorldNews Germany)
 


Alfred Benjamin’s “sortie reports” of his 31 aerial missions navigating B-17s over Europe during World War II are snapshots of one miracle after another — except for the nightmare of his 13th bombing run. “I can´t even put it into words. It was just so horrible. It was a tough long war and we saw planes go down, we saw people jumping out of planes and hopefully we were hoping that we weren´t going to get hit,” he said of what awaited him that day. It was Aug. 19, 1944. “We were hit over the target,” he said of bombing a railroad yard in Hamm, Germany. “We lost two engines and we were limping home we got hit again (over the Rhine River)...


 
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