April 11th 2024
Added 3 photo to the Flight Crews page (Lt. Vinton H. Mays, Lt. Harris S. Mathis and Lt. Noel E. Cunefare, Lt. Jerome E. Godfrey)
April 4th 2023
Added 11 photos to the Individual Photo page (Warn, Niedhardt, Miller, Santora, Auten, Morse, Fine, Bigley, Sturdevant, Garland, Oliver, )
March 25nd 2023
Added 11 photos to the Individual Photo page (White, Thole, Sullivan, Pitts, Peschen, Patty, Harrison, Hanson, Elliott, Castanias, Byrd, Logan) and worked on the American Cemeteries page
March 22nd 2023
Added 17 photos to the Individual Photo page (Billisits, Harmke, Holder, Browning, Feldman, Stateman, Reppa, Mehring, Ayres, Polen, Esch, Stann, Luck, Diehl, Callaghan, Nelson, Gumm, Coughlin)
March 18th 2024
Added two photos to the Individual Photo page (Cooke, Tinkler)
March 14th 2024
Added one photo to the Individual Photo page (Suer)
March 12th 2024
Added a new tab to the website menu named Glatton. Under this tab you will find sub tabs. First one that has also been added is named Entry Gates
March 7th 2024
Added one ‘new’ Lt. Duane Zemper photo collection to the Photo Collections page
February 20th 2024
Added more information to the Bicycles post (under the Special Interest section)
February 19th 2024
Added a few names to the Support Personnel page (members Fire Fighting Platoon)
February 16th 2024
Added 1 photo to the Flight Crews page (Lt. Ronald P. Straus)
February 14th 2024
Added a new gallery to the Photo Collections page (Kenneth K. Yap)
January 11th 2024
Added a new page on the website named Daily Reports and Added 11 A/C’s to the Aircraft Database (42-97455, 42-97459, 42-97450, 42-97443, 42-97142, 42-97139, 42-97136, 44-8046, 44-8032, 44-6831 and 44-6621)
August 21st 2023
Added 4 photos to the Individual Photo page (Deery, Hozier, Fonda, Rogers)
August 16th 2023
Added more information to the Mission Narratives page mission No. 66, added a photo to the 748th Bomb Squadron page (maj. Goerge C. Hozier)
August 16th 2023
Added more information to the Mission Narratives page missions No. 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141 and 142
August 5th 2023
Added the last page (last 16 missions) of the Shinners list which can be found on the Mission Narratives page, added more information to the Mission Narratives page missions No. 19, No. 118, No. 119 and No. 120 and added 6 photos to the Flight Crews page (Capt. Doherty, Capt. Deal, Lt. Selwyn, Lt. Jesse L. Smith, Lt. Godfrey, Lt. Syptak)
August 4th 2023
Added 4 photos to the Individual Photo page (Wilcox, Ralph Smith, Crosby, Rahbe) and made numerous adjustments
June 8th 2023
Added 1 accident report to the Accident Reports page (Procopio)
June 5th 2023
Added 1 accident reports (part of) to the Accident Reports page (Sundbaum)
June 1st 2023
Added 1 newsletter to the Newsletter page (newsletter May 2023)
May 9th and 10th 2023
Added 19 photos to the Individual Photo page (Sidebottom, Adams, Berg, Carter, Chinn, Dayhoff, Engdahl, Fauls, Nordan, Rice, Roos, Salay, Salerno, Schilling, Shadman, Srout, Thomas, Thompson, Baker)
February 13th 2023
Added Reunion 2023 information to the website
December 22nd 2022
Updated valid plugins
Updated WordPress version to latest ( 6.1.1 )
Updated Welcome on homepage to include the Forward and tribute to Willard Reese provided by his Daughter Diane. The passage also contains links to the original Website and Missions Calendar.
Added Menu link to Legacy Website. Note: had to remove the none displaying ‘logo’ box to the left of the menu as it was pushing the search option out of view. As we do not have a logo, I removed this in the ‘Theme Options’
Made numerous coding changes to the copy of the original website to ensure images appeared and pages loaded correctly, without returning to the Original website URL. There is still plenty more work to be done here.
November 25th 2022
Added 1 newsletter to the Newsletter page (newsletter November 2022) and added 21 photos to the Individual Photo page (Stortz, Sudduth, Gougarty, Francis, Kolstoe, Cummings, Wasserman, Rittman, Reddie, Gray, McElroy, Burningham, Mueller, Trom, George, Campbell, McGroarty, Zigler, Decker, Chandler, Molestatore)
November 24th 2022
Website disconnected, technical problems solved.
October 15th 2022
Added 1 news item. Mid-air collision B-17 Texas Raiders.
October 1st 2022
Added 2 news items. Passing of Vaughn Heidenreich and Trisha Mach Robertson.
June 16th 2022
Added 38 photos to the Individual Photo page (Ofiesh, Thompson, Wodek, Fernandez, Canon, Woodard, Sage, Fuller, Levers, Ellis, Mohn, Hovey, Wesley, Gilbert, Creehan, Kohmetscher, James, Lee, O’Connor, Haag, Voytko, Kimball.\, Borland, Vance, Pledger, Goslee, Rhodes, Blackwell, Free, Robinson, Mahon, Baskette, Murch, Toomey, Conway, Keefover, Fontaine, Betterton, Birchen)
March 28th 2022
Added 1 photo to the Individual Photo page (Mankin)
Added 2 MACR’s (10320 and 13558) to the MACR page on the website
Added 9 A/C’s to the Aircraft Database (43-37735, 43-37766, 43-38183, 43-38203, 43-38258, 43-38289, 43-38309, 43-38462 and 43-38529)
January 3rdth 2022
Added 29 photos to the Individual Photo page (Hanson, Walmer, Quinn, Van Ingen, Zeiler, Shaner, Oglesby, Venerofsky, Furst, Burkhart, Zimmerman, Webster, Ellsworth, Ormsby, Braffman, Oliver, Wescott, Brackley, Tulowitszki, Aaser, Berrier, Osborn, Goff, Shields, Young, Osborne, Osika, Zamecnik, Vittitow)
December 20th 2021
Added 15 photos to the Individual Photo page (Beck, Mays, Conley, Hightower, Doerr, McNeal, Guyot, Mayers, Hall, Crowley, Dickonson, Buyers, McDonald, Lusk, Tangherlini)
December 14th 2021
Added 2 newsletters to the Newsletter page (newsletter May 2021 and newsletter November 2021)
September 22nd 2021
Added 2 items to the News page (457th Bomb Group mural and 8th Historical Society Reunion 2021)
September 15th 2021
Added 1 MACR (5904) to the MACR page on the website, Lt. William F. Rogers.
Added 4 A/C’s to the Aircraft Database (42-31542, 42-31547, 42-31548 and 42-31568)
September 1st 2021
Added 5 photos to the Individual Photo page (Cox, Dawson, Machak, Corriher, MacChesney)
August 25th 2021
worked on the Overseas Graves pages adding information
Juli 7th 2021
Added new text to the First Association website page
June 23th 2021
Added 1 photo to the Individual Photo page (DeLoach)
June 18th 2021
Added 77 photos to the Individual Photo page (Beam, Conrad, Cristofaro, Grider, Kleinfelter, Lawton, Olson, Rosenblatt, Smithson, Humble, Apel, Condon, Edwards, Finkelstein, Karr, Krise, Paprota, Rogers, Woodell, Deal, Dundas, Fallon, Hedrick, Lady, Pike, Ray, Sweeny, Wills, Zelikofsky, Barrett, Green, Hightower, Horn, Rubos, Tozzi, Walsh, Boemer, Dolph, Epps, Grisa, Morrow, Schuler, Spatz, Chastain, Flicky, Kempf, Rains, Richardson, Smolik, Spaight, Ward, Wolff, Auten, Bendit, Graham, Hobbs, Jackson, Murphy, Norman, Oldenhage, Poore, Rice, Rowe, Smith, Stowe, Stringer, Toth, Vanook, Domato, Henkel, Miller, Smith, Taylor, Taylor, Thistle, Truba, Winters)
June 4th 2021
Added 4 photos to the Individual Photo page (Barron, Diehl, Hampton, Farrel and Hocker)
May 6th 2021
Added 6 photos to the Individual Photo page (Glaubius, Short, Richards, Fowler, Beske and Sheeky)
April 28th 2021
Added 3 accident reports to the Accident Reports page (Andersen, Mays, Schuchmann, Stevenson)
April 26th 2021
Added 3 accident reports to the Accident Reports page (Passmore, Gay and Salo)
April 22th 2021
Added 6 photos to the Individual Photo page (Lyle Johnson, Milne, Musiel, Paddock, Monsen, Mack)
April 13th 2021
Added 1 MACR (10344) to the MACR page on the website, Lt. Arnet L. Furr.
April 12th 2021
Added 3 photos to the Individual Photo page (Nunn, Esser, Hood)
April 9th 2021
Added 6 photos to the Individual Photo page (Wilson, Hartings, Herrman, Hovland, White, Carpenter) and added 8 photos to the American Cemetery page
April 7th 2021
Added 4 photos to the Individual Photo page (Basara, Villane, Schaffner and Levy )
April 6th 2021
Added 1 photo to the Individual Photo page (Stevenson)
March 25th 2021
Added 1 photo to the Individual Photo page (Nelson) and added 1 photo to the American Cemetery page
March 23th 2021
Added 2 potos to the American Cemetery page
March 18th 2021
Added 2 photos to the Individual Photo page (Johnson, Levy, Lennartson) and added 2 gravemarkers to the American Cemetery page
March 16th 2021
Added 2 photos to the Individual Photo page (Madgett, Klejbuk)
March 15th 2021
Added 1 new A2 jacket to the A2 Jackets page ‘Moonlight Mission’ and added 2 photos to the Individual Photo page (Killian, Savinetti)
March 10th 2021
Added 14 photos to the Individual Photo page (Rafineli, Halzier, Singer, Babcock, Joyce, Kenney, Long, Lawrence, Reagan, Federico, Thompson, Hadley, Goudy, Forness)
February 5th 2021
Added 2 photos to the Individual Photo page (John D. English and Edward C. Cannon III)
February 3rd 2021
Added 2 new photos to the Ardennes American Cemetery page and to the Individual Photos page (Ralph W. Smith and Hershel L. Wilson)
February 1st 2021
Added 1 new book to the Books page (Coming Full Circle) and changed the Flight Crews page
January 28th 2021
Added 1 new A2 jacket to the A2 Jackets page (Captain Lentz Mcsherry “Mac” Lackey), added 10 planes to the Aircraft Database page, added one MACR to the MACR page (MACR no. 6724)
January 25th 2021
Added 1 photo to the Individual Photo page (Henry P. Loades)
January 21st 2021
Added 4 photos to the Individual Photo page (Clarence Ross, Malcolm Johnson, Gallucci, Haldiman, Paul W. Johnson), added forgotten information to the sub-page Lorraine Cemeterie
January 8th 2021
Added 2 photos to the Individual Photo page (Skalski and Koerner), added forgotten information to the sub-page Lorraine Cemeterie
December 28th 2020
Added 1 photo to the Individual Photo page (Roy E. Graves)
December 24th 2020
Added 4 photos to the Individual Photo page (Woyurka, King, Grebe and William)
December 22nd 2020
Added a new page to the website. Main page Photo Collections, sub pages Duane Zemper Photos, Bernie Bains Photos, Bill Mach Photos, Ken Blakebrough Photos, Roger Freeman photos, Dick Wyman Photos, Fayette Dennison Photos, Willard King Photos, Gerald Goodman Photos, James Maguire Photos, Herbert Williams Photos, Andrew Bell Photos, Edwin Jackson Photos, Maynard Stratton Photos, Andrew Reeves Photos, Michael Woyurka Photos, Paul Harlan Photos, Individuals
December 15th 2020
Added 1 IDPF to the IDPF page on the website, Lt. Owen B. Coffman.
November 25th 2020
Added new pages to the website. Main page Overseas Graves, sub pages Normandy Cemetery, Margraten Cemeterie, Henri-Chapelle Cemeterie, Cambridge Cemeterie, Ardennes Cemeterie, Lorraine Cemeterie, Luxembourg Cemeterie, Epinal Cemeterie, Florence Cemeterie and American Cemeteries
November 19th 2020
Added 2 photos to the Individual Photo page (Darnell and Richard Dickinson), added 2 photos to the Lest we Forget Memorial page
November 17th 2020
Added 1 photo to the Individual Photo page (Quinn)
November 11th 2020
Added 1 MACR to the MACR page on the website (9771)
November 10th 2020
Added 1 photo to the Individual Photo page (Graves)
Added 2 A/C’s to the Aircraft Database
October 29th 2020
Added 17 photos to the Individual Photo page (Swain, Jaqua, Reid, Gascon, Beske, Johnson, Kilroy, Young, Hanley, Taifer, Sharrock, Pearson, O’Hara, Nohava, Madison, Haldeman, Thames)
October 27th 2020
Added 15 photos to the Individual Photo page (Moberg, Schloendorn, Bow, Spurrier, Judson, Hibshman, McCullough, Wright, Klimoff, Conner, McGee, Hall, Navarro, Robinson, Allen)
Added 1 photo to the Lest We Forget Memorial page (Jack Thames)
October 20th 2020
Changed information on the Mission Narratives page. September 27th 2020 I added numbers of A/C shot down during a mission, number of KIA, POW, EVD (INT). The columns KIA, POW and EVD have been added into one column.
October 15th 2020
Added 1 MACR to the Missions – MACR page. MACR 5906
October 12th 2020
Added 5 MACR’s to the Missions – MACR page. MACR 3197, 4306, 4800, 5298, 6005
October 1st 2020
Added 9 photos (Gerald Kerr crew) to the Officers and Enlisted Men Portraits page
September 27th 2020
Added more information to the Mission Narratives page. Added are numbers of A/C shot down during a mission, number of KIA, POW, EVD (INT).
September 25th 2020
Added a new Photo Collection of Sgt. Gerald N. Goodman
September 24th 2020
Added a portrait photo of Lt. Elmer W. Felgenhauer to the Officers and Enlited Men Portraits page
Added the passing of James Bass to the News page