Military Career
Dublin Core
Title
Military Career
Subject
Bob Gilmore's Time in the Military in World War 2
Description
Stories and artifacts from Bob Gilmore's time in the Air Force in World War 2
Collection Items
A War Story With a Christmas Twist
Bob Gilmore's personal account of a story from his time in the Air Force during which his plane lost navigation and was beginning to lose power before landing in Iceland on Christmas Eve 1944.
Story Excerpt from Unpublished Memoir
A side-story from Bob Gilmore's unpublished memoirs in which he goes into great detail about a romantic tryst he had aboard a B-17.
Military Service Memorandum
List of Bob Gilmore's missions flown while in the Air Force in World War 2 while in the 390th Bombardment Group. Gilmore did not join the Air Force until 1944, and all of his combat missions come from the final year of the war as part of the final…
Woodward and Crew Photo
Photo from Story of the 390th Bombardment Group book of Bob Gilmore and his flight group. The book in which this photo is found also contains the history of the 390th Bombardment Group, and features many of the missions that Bob Gilmore flew towards…