Posts by Bill Getz


D-Day June 6, 1944

Get an inside view of a D-Day mission from an Air Force pilot who was there. A World War II veteran — and PVE resident — takes you back to that very early morning in 1944.


My Return from War

One of the craftiest fighters of World War II was a luxurious passenger ship called the RMS Queen Elizabeth. Learn about her fate from a veteran who journeyed back to America aboard the luxury liner.


Scouts Out

Sixty-five percent of the 10,631 missions flown by the Eighth Air Force aircraft — 6,900 missions — were affected by European weather.