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  • Kearney, George Going to Work for Higgins Industries

    George Kearney was living on Magazine Street [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] when he went to work for Higgins [Annotator's

  • Kearney, George Landing Craft

    [Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937 to 1958.] The landing

  • Kearney, George Marvin Perrett and Testing Boats

    [Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937 to 1958.] The landing

  • Keema, John Segment 1

    [Annotator’s Note: The interview begins with John Keema telling the interviewer about how not flying the Regensburg mission probably saved his life

  • Keema, John Segment 10

    When John Keema came home, he was by himself.

  • Keema, John Segment 2

    John Keema’s preflight training was essentially basic training and consisted of a lot of classroom work, marching, PT [Annotator’s Note: physical t

  • Keema, John Segment 3

    After completing bombardier training and being commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, John Keema and his classmates were sent to Gowen Field in Boise, Idah

  • Keema, John Segment 4

    John Keema and his group arrived in Framlingham in mid-July around the time of the Hamburg raids.

  • Keema, John Segment 5

    There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before.

  • Keema, John Segment 6

    After John Keema’s navigator Frank Delarmie [Annotator’s Note: unsure of spelling] was killed they were assigned a new navigator.

  • Keema, John Segment 7

    Keema had flown back to back to back missions on eight, nine, and ten [Annotator’s Note: 8, 9, and 10 October 1943].

  • Keema, John Segment 8

    John Keema and a lot of the guys he flew with had qualms about the Münster raid.

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