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Introduction and Storyline
(Előszó és a Történet)

AAC BG Mission Narratives
(Bombázók bevetési jelentései)

AAC BG Mission Orders
(Bevetési parancsok)

Aircraft Downed in Hungary
(Kényszerleszállás Magyarországon)

460th BG Escape Statements
(460-as Bombázó Csoport Két menekülés leirása)

BG Mission Lists
(Bombázó csoportok bevetési listája)

Harrison Flats
(Harrison Sík)

S-2 Sees It Through  
(S-2 gondoskodik mindenről)

Newspaper Accounts
(Ujságcikkek)

A Great Miracle
(Egy nagy csoda)

Rededication
(A templomszentelés)

Reflections
(Elmélkedések)

Two Great Organs
(A székesegyház orgonái)

Church Bells Sound Recording
(Hangfelvétel)

The Final Chapter
(Utolsó Fejezet)

Memories of September 1947
(Emlékek 1947-ből)

3/4/15 Service Announcement
(Meghívó esti misére 2015, III. 4.)


Lost Art and Frescos
(Elveszett műkincsek és freskók)


YouTube movie of Cathedral story

Updated bomb damage photo gallery

8 Photo Essays

2018
Hungarian Translation of English Mission Orders for 3-4-1945. pdf
55th. Bomb Wing Report of March 1945. pdf
Photo Album: Personal Photos of Base Activity fm. 16mm Microfilm
Movie: Winter on the Danube - 3 mins. w/music
2019
6 photo-essays about the 1944 Normandy Landings
2020
Air Force Magazine - 3 Years Over Europe
2021
The London Blitz - Part 1
Their Finest Hour speech
2022
V-1 and V-2 Vengeance Weapons Used on England
2023
A Soldiers Photo Album

New! 2023
John F. Kennedy Assassination

Photo Albums
(Fénykép album)

Harrison Flats Photo Album - Part Two
(Harrison Sík Fénykep Album-ban - 2)
Links
(Linkek)

Harrison Flats Photo Album - Part Two

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[Photo] Winter on the flightline. [Photo] A camp tent-hut in winter. [Photo] An airman arrives in Italy.
(L-R) Winter in Italy - on the flightline and in camp.

[Photo] Crewmen from the 485th Bombardment Group avoid the deep ruts in the mud. [Photo] 485th personnel brave the deep mud to deliver the Group's mail. [Photo] The 460th BG's tent city at Spinazzola, Italy in the spring of 1944.
(L-R) The spring of 1944 brings a plethora of mud to the 485th Bomb Group's camp as well as to the 460th BG's tent city in Spinazzola, Italy.

[Photo] The 461st Bomb Group's men's rooms. [Photo] The 461st BG's hot water boiler. [Photo] Showers for the 461st Bomb Group crews.
(L-R) The 461st Bomb Group's men's rooms, hot water boiler and showers.

[Photo] A tent-stove ready to go into a 461st Bomb Group member's tent. [Photo] A fleet of tent-stoves - waiting for winter at the 461st Bomb Group camp. [Photo] The Glenn Miller Band on tour in Europe.
(L-R)The 461st BG prepares for winter with tent-stoves; the Glenn Miller Band on tour.

[Photo] The 485th Bombardment Group's Commanding Officer plays ball. [Photo] A 456th BG airman poses with one of the locals. [Photo] A 456th crewman out on a three-day pass.
(L-R)Groups at play. The 485th BG's CO plays ball; a 456th airman poses with one of the locals and another 456th crewman is on leave.

[Photo] One of the 456th Bombardment Group's aircraft crashes on landing. [Photo] Another shot of the 456th Bombardment Group's aircraft that crashed on landing. [Photo] A recent photo of one of the WWII airfields.
(L-R) One of the 456th Bomb Group's aircraft crashes in an attempt to land; a recent photo of one the WWII airfields.


      This website is dedicated to describing the events of Sunday, March 4, 1945 over the city of Szombathely, Hungary. Footnotes, references and historical documents will be added to the site as translations become available. The readers' interest and help with translations would be most appreciated - in both English and Hungarian.

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