HELL FROM HEAVEN
Preface
By Leonard Streitfeld, Bombardier, 600th Squadron
This book is a true story about one man’s memories and experiences from the early 1920,s to the end of World War II in 1945.
It embraces the time in my life when I was impressed by the events of World War I from my father’s exploits in that was and all my recollections about the changing scenes in world events leading to World War II. It also includes the part I played as a B-17 Bombardier in the Eighth Air Force.
I kept a diary during my time in the service and recorded, as much as possible, everything I experienced along with the accounts of the thirty-one combat missions I was on.
I have tried to reveal a variety of personal and unusual experiences that should hold your interest from cover to cover. It includes first hand accounts of what it was like to fly dangerous, exciting and many times tragic combat missions over Germany from the time we were briefed about the target we were to bomb to the time we returned to our base in Nuthampstead, England.
The final Combat mission flown by the Eighth Air Force to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on April 25, 1945 is described in detail that you will find fascinating, nerve racking and tragically sad for two crews in our Bomb Group only two weeks before the War’s end.
This book will touch on unusual and unexplainable events that spared my life, some of which were of a psychic nature and may be hard to believe but nevertheless happened.
HELL FROM HEAVEN by Leonard Streitfeld, Hammonton, New Jersey. Library of Congress Catalogue card number: 94-092215. HELL FROM HEAVEN is available in the 398th PX.
Personal History Information
- Veteran: Leonard Streitfeld
- Bombardier, 600th Squadron
- Date of Personal History: December 2003 Web Page submission. Excerpted from HELL FROM HEAVEN by Leonard Streitfeld.
- Author: Leonard Streitfeld
- Submitted to 398th Web Pages by: Leonard Streitfeld