Special Links

 

Articles involving “Doc”:

“Doc” and Nosker: OSU Lantern article Part I

“Doc” and Nosker: OSU Lantern article Part II

Chillicothe Gazette article on “Doc”

OSU Alumni Association on Maj. Nosker & “Doc”

Columbus Dispatch on Nosker and “Doc” books (Memorial Day 2018)

Other Articles:

449th Veterans Visit Willow Run (June 2018)

Two Ton Tessie (Save the Bomber Plant News)

Hanson Crew Mission and Recovery (Save the Bomber Plant News)

449th BG(H) Willow Run Planes (Save the Bomber Plant News)

Gene Ward: 718th Squadron

The Original Planes of the 449th

Given Grooms: Kendall Crew

Given Grooms: Recovery Petition

“Just a Bad Day”: The painting

Reunion of Bomber and Fighter Escort Veterans

 

449th BGA Newsletters:

 

Websites:

449th BGA

David Duane Livingston Memorial and 449th BG(H) Museum

History of the 449th BG(H)

 

B-24 Liberators

Last Surviving Liberators

Save the Willow Run Bomber Plant

Yankee Air Museum

 

Commemorative Air Force

Collings Foundation

Tri-State Warbird Museum

National Museum of the US Air Force

National WWII Museum

National Veterans Memorial and Museum

National War in the Pacific Museum

 

15th Air Force Organization

 

Facebook Pages:

449th BGA

718th Bomb Squadron

 

Videos from Reunions:

2014 Dayton, OH

2015 Charleston, SC

2016 New Orleans, LA

2018 Charlotte, NC

 

War Videos: 449th BGA

Often seen in a photo captioned ‘after attack on a bridge in Yugoslavia’. B-24 of 717th BS 449th BG ,15th AF, s/n 44-10570 ˇ#43 taken after attack (23 November 1944) on a bridge near Brod (today Slavonski and Bosanski Brod).

Capture of 719th Squadron Sunshine

B-24 and Willow Run Videos:

Ford: Building a B-24 Liberator

Willow Run Project Promotional

 

War Videos: Other Units

Story of a B-24 tailgunner

 

Paintings & Books:

Painting: Maximum Effort

Book: “Maximum Effort” stories of the 449th BG(H) (also available directly from the 449th BGA)

Book: “Escape I Must” by Harvey Gann

Fox 7 Harvey Gann Interview

“Just a Bad Day”

by Todd Price (original is hanging in the Daniel Inouye DPAA headquarters building in Hawaii.)  (Pictures: Print and Dedication)

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