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8th Air Force 323rd BG B-17 Blue Dreams Crew

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8th Air Force 323rd BG B-17 Blue Dreams Crew

David Weise 16 favorites

04/01/2009

8th Air Force 323rd BG B-17 Blue Dreams Crew

From some of my Fathers war photos. Will be posting others. Not really sure who anyone is in this photo. First airman on the left kneeling looks like another photo I have of someone named "Joe Bielecky", who probaly served with my father, Capt. William Weise.

Date & Place: 1943 at Bassingbourne in England United Kingdom

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Jared Dowling 3 favorites

11/18/2013

The man with the darker pants on in the front row is my grandfather, Manny Fisher. He was a navigator on the Blue Dreams with their original crew that flew all 25 missions, including the very first bomb run over Berlin, Germany.

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Nona Brown 3 favorites

12/02/2014

My father Kenneth T. McFarland is kneeling on the bottom right. He was the pilot of Blue Dreams. I am Nona Gail whose birth was commemorated by the stork bringing the baby. My father is 95.

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Joe Bielecky c. 1922

Joe Bielecky was born c. 1922. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Joe Bielecky.

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