Ive had this desire for a long time...to visit the airbase in England where my father a B-24 Liberator bomber pilot flew from to attack Hitler's Germany.

Hearing the stories, reading the diaries that my father and his crew members wrote and seeing those black & white photos, over time I have created my own minds eye of what it was like...what it is like.

I traveled to the East Anglia region of the United Kingdom (northeast of London along the North Sea). During WWII this area was called "Fields of Little America".

Because of the numerous airfields where America's Eighth Air Force flew their missions into Germany. Time was spent traveling the countryside, experiencing the people and of course finding dads old airfield in a small village called Tibenham. While there I was to meet up with a group of returning combat vets that served with the very same 445th Bomb Group of my father. These men were part of the darkest day for the 445th and the Tibenham base. The Kassel Mission, on September 27, 1944 39 B-24 Liberators left on a mission to bomb Kassel, Germany only 4 of these B-24's returned to Tibenham. The rest were either shot down or crash landed.

To be with these men, hear their stories of combat survival and return to the base that over sixty years ago rumbled with the loud roar of 4 engine bombers was a journey of a lifetime.