Good morning Lynne, Below are a couple of other sites that you may want to check out. Uncle Frank may enjoy attending the 100th BG Reunion this fall in Cleveland. Not sure how close that would be for you all to travel.
Hi Lynne, Welcome to the SSMA site. I manage this site and also a member on the Stalag 17B site. I'm enclosing a couple sites that you may have already seen. But I admit that I am confused by the accounts that I am reading. Seems like the "Squakin' Hawkin'" had quite a career. Was your uncle with the 100th BG? and Reeder his pilot? If so you want to send a message here on our site to Michael Faley who is the historian for the 100th BG and also on the Board of Directors of the 8th AF Historical Society.
Your uncle was in 17A along with Herman "Moe" Molen who was shot down during the Second Schweinfurt raid. He stills lives in Texas and comes to our reunions regularly. His great niece, Leisha Mattingly is a member on our site here. You may want to ask her if Moe remembers your uncle. Her mother and father are very active in our group also, but are not members of our site.
Hope you enjoy our site and if you have any questions on how to proceed in your research, please give me a shout
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Good morning Lynne, Below are a couple of other sites that you may want to check out. Uncle Frank may enjoy attending the 100th BG Reunion this fall in Cleveland. Not sure how close that would be for you all to travel.
Sue
http://www.100thbg.com/
http://www.100thbg.com/specials/11cleveland_reunion.htm
Hi Lynne, Welcome to the SSMA site. I manage this site and also a member on the Stalag 17B site. I'm enclosing a couple sites that you may have already seen. But I admit that I am confused by the accounts that I am reading. Seems like the "Squakin' Hawkin'" had quite a career. Was your uncle with the 100th BG? and Reeder his pilot? If so you want to send a message here on our site to Michael Faley who is the historian for the 100th BG and also on the Board of Directors of the 8th AF Historical Society.
http://www.100thbg.com/mainpages/crews/crews3/reeder.htm
http://forum.armyairforces.com/tm.aspx?m=103448&high=Francis+Do... (I need to reread this a couple more times before I completely understand. These AAF forums are a great ways to ask questions)
Your uncle was in 17A along with Herman "Moe" Molen who was shot down during the Second Schweinfurt raid. He stills lives in Texas and comes to our reunions regularly. His great niece, Leisha Mattingly is a member on our site here. You may want to ask her if Moe remembers your uncle. Her mother and father are very active in our group also, but are not members of our site.
Hope you enjoy our site and if you have any questions on how to proceed in your research, please give me a shout
Sue