Wartime Log of SSG William Oliver

[Eric McDaniels]

Hello everyone, my name is Eric Paul McDaniels and I would like to tell you about a diary I found in the garbage.  It belong to SSG William Oliver and is a wonderful piece of history.  I will try to upload a couple of pictures from it and then will write back.  So stay tuned for more.......

A Wartime Log-2 (dragged).pdf

A Wartime Log-2 (dragged) 1.pdf

A Wartime Log-2 (dragged) 2.pdf

[Rob Klint]

Eric:

Thank you so much for the post...very interesting.  Anyway to get a copy of the whole diary?  It would be great if all of it was available for others to see.  I would also be interested in knowing more about the find, your relationship to SSG Oliver and what the current status of the diary is.

 

Thanks,

Rob Klint

[Steffen Reibert]

Hello Eric,

 

Thank you very much for the pages. This pages give the confirmation that 42-30707 crashed in the forest of Langenbergheim.

The village Rommelhausen ist 2 miles north.

http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode...

 

I have attached a picture from 08/1945 The picture shows the crashplace and a part of the route he was gone.

Can you attach the Site 17 and 18, please?

 

Steffen

42-30707.jpg

[Steffen Reibert]

Hello,

 

thanks for the diary.

I live 2 miles from the eventual crashplace of the 42-30707 (Piccadilly Commando)

http://www.lostaircraft.com/database.php?lang=en&e=17&mode=...

Have you any informations about the crashplace or captured place?

 

Steffen

[Albert J. Prentice]

Thanks for sharing the diary. My Dad Lt. John Prentice was the navigator on the "Queen Jeannie"  a 423rd B-17. He was probably one of the planes described as going down. He spent 1 1/2 years in prison camp. Only five of his crew survived the mission.

 

Mike Prentice

[Lance Waitz]

Amazing find.  Need to upload the balance if you can.  Felt like an end of season cliff-hanger.