More old photos and history...family of mine, here

Herbert, Albert (my Dad's Dad), and Edmund (a US army colonel)...all brothers to each other. New Orleans, approx. 1943.








My Mother, Marion, (right), with clarinet. I think this is 1940's. She would only live about another 20-ish years.

My uncle (from my Dad's side), Albert Jr., was a ball turret gunner on a B-17 bomber. That position was a most uncomfortable and very unforgiving job in the underbelly (and very exposed it was) of that big, reliable, but lumbering plane that flew unpressurized to 25,000+ ft. The cold, by the way, was often sub-zero. He was part of a crew that flew out of England in WWII to regularly trouble the Nazi regime. He, like so many brave soldiers, did not finish the war at his post. His aircraft was shot down over Poland, and he fell victim to terrible German WWII "hospitality". He did survive the war, and lived until the 1990's. The photo is NOT of him, but similar, I am certain.

My uncle Albert's own son, Albert III, was recently displaced by the terrible forces of hurricane Katrina. They are well, I understand.

A typical photo of a B-17 in flight. The supercharged engines allowed for high altitude flight. I have seen these planes fly to fight forest fires for years, here in my home of Southern California...though they were replaced a long while ago.

More to come... this is a great joy to me. I hope visitors enjoy.

--Dan