Seventy years ago this week, the liberation of Europe began with the largest invasion force ever assembled. The costs and risks of attacking the most heavily defended coastline in the world were high, and there was no Plan B. Over…
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“Let’s Go. Regardless.” Ralph Sims’ D-Day Bomber Missions
Posted in Interview Excerpts, Updates Tagged with: 1944, Adele Foster, Allied Invasion of Normandy, B-17 bomber missions, D-Day invasion, friendly fire, inclement weather on D-Day, June 6, Louisiana, Louisiana military veteran, Omaha Beach, oral history, Ralph Sims, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, tail gunner, The Stars and Stripes newspaper, U.S. Army Air Corps, Wolrd War Two, WWII
