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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in William Griswold Smith's Ten Missions Over Germany, #4159-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from W. Griswold Smith of Greensboro, N.C., March 1978.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Air pilots, Military--United States--History--World War, 1939-1945.
• Air pilots--United States--Biography.
• London (England)--Description and travel.
• Smith, William Griswold.
• United States. Air Force--Military life.
• United States. Air Force--Officers.
• United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th.
• World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations.
• World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
• World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

"Ten Missions Over Germany" was written by William Griswold Smith of Greensboro, N.C., in 1978.

The collection includes "Ten Missions Over Germany," reminiscences (typed, 29 pages), written by William Griswold Smith about ten missions he flew over Germany as a pilot with the 100th Bomb Squadron, United States Eighth Air Force, March-April 1945. The account describes attacks on German submarine pens at Keil and Hamburg; oil facilities at Zeitz and Hamburg; railyards at Nurenberg and Tabor; air fields at Munich and Magdburg; a factory at Ingoldstidt; and a railyard at Egen, Czechoslovakia. Information is included on the briefing and preparations for each raid; targets; the position of his plane in formation; type of bombs carried; and other aircraft on the raid. Also includes scattered comments on other members of the squadron and an account of a brief leave in London, England, and of several mercy missions to drop food in Holland.