United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 384th
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Paul and Leonard Gordy collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15.0031
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of published material, newspaper clippings, interviews, and published unit histories, collected by the Gordy brothers about their wartime experience. Both brothers served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and as POWs in German camps.
Dates:
1946-2012; Other: Date acquired: 07/23/2015; Other: Date accessioned: 2020-06-08
Harold Truman Speck collection
Collection — Single Folder Collections - 1999 Box 6 (99.0116-99.0133)
Identifier: 99.0117
Scope and Contents
This World War II collection relates to Harold Truman Speck, a copilot Flight Officer of nine B-17 bombing raids over Europe. He served with the 545th Bombardment Squadron, 384th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. This collection consists of photocopies of photographs, military personnel records, books, medals, pins, and Speck's personal POW journal provided by the Harold Truman Speck family.
Dates:
Created: 1943-1947; Other: Date acquired: 07/14/2017
Joseph L. Cittadini collection
Collection — 01.0359 - Box 1
Identifier: 01.0359
Scope and Contents
This collection relates to Joseph L. Cittadini who served as a Navigator with the 384th Bombardment Group. The collection includes photographs, letters, and official documents from his time as a navigator with the US Army Air Corp and his time as a prisoner of war during World War II. Photographs include several of Cittadini with his crew of the "Goin' Dawg" and "Nutalls Nut House" B-17 bombers. Cittadini was a prisoner of war for a year after being shot down on a mission over Berlin and was held in several POW camps, but primarily in Stalag Luft III in Sagan, Germany. His account of this is told in detail in both a manuscript and an oral history...
Dates:
Created: 1943-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1944; Other: Date acquired: 10/22/2004
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Prisoners of war--Europe--Interviews 2
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations 2
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany 2
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German 2
- Air pilots, Military--United States 1
- Bombing, Aerial--Germany 1
- Ex-prisoners of war--United States--Biography 1
- Grafton-Underwood (Eng.) 1
- Memory in literature. 1
- Navigation (Aeronautics) 1
- Nuremberg (Germany) 1
- Prisoners of war 1
- Prisoners of war--United States 1
- Stalag Luft VII 1
- Stalag Luft XIII 1
- United States. Air Force--History 1
- War in literature. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Food supply 1 + ∧ less
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