I was flying as a Flight Engineer with my first crew and returning from a Pathfinder trip to Leipzig, my 23rd Op. We had reached the Zuider Zee, Holland, when a German fighter attacked us ...

German fighters attacked the bomber's formation roughly 28 miles northeast of Leipzig, and the plane ... almost 1,000 Americans killed during World War II have been identified and returned to ...

If the previous raid had been relatively quiet for the squadron then the Leipzig trip proved to be quite the opposite. Again Bomber Command put up over 800 aircraft, but this time, as they crossed ...

We spent a night in the house and they gave us a meal. We left the next day with one of the Americans for Leipzig. There was nobody about - they were all hiding. We looked in garages for a car.

weighing 250 kilograms on Thursday night. Some 10,000 people living in the 1 kilometre exclusion zone were evacuated as the team defused the unexploded ordinance, police said. Children from day ...