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The 453rd Bomb Group Museum continues to grow, over the last year three new cabinets have been constructed and displays enlarged, there are many new exhibits with some new and exciting items coming later in Spring. The museum is open from Friday to Sunday 10am to 4pm throughout the year.
Swiss - Internees New Year's Eve 1944 / New Year's Day 1945, Palace Hotel Wengen, Switzerland. The old year has passed, we want to demand from the new one that it makes us so happy and that our heart laughs again every day. We wish you all a Happy New Year, only the best of everything and good health for 2022
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B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, Switzerland
Christmas 2021
We wish you a contemplative Christmas, a satisfied reflection on the past, a little faith in tomorrow and hope for the future with all our hearts. B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, Switzerland
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B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, The-American-Museum in Switzerland, with the history about the American bomber crews / fighter pilots (Swiss - Internees) in Switzerland from 1943 - 1945. The website is newly updated, learn more at:
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B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, The-American-Museum in Switzerland, with the history about the American bomber crews / fighter pilots (Swiss - Internees) in Switzerland from 1943 - 1945. The website is newly updated, learn more at:
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What does bomber pilot James „Jimmy“ Maitland Stewart have to do with pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey of the B-17 Little Chub? Jimmy Stewart bomber pilot and movie actor was very good friends with pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey. Jimmy Stewart had planned to make a Film together with the pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey After the war, unfortunately it did not come to it, because the pilot 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey of the B-17G "Little Chub", Serial Nr: 42-102446 was shot down by the Swiss Air Force over the Greifensee on April 24, 1944 and died. After the war Jimmy Stewart made the Film "Isn't life wonderful? A beautiful film he dedicated to his good friend 1st Lt Everett L. Bailey.
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The B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, The-American-Museum in Switzerland, with the history about the American bomber crews / fighter pilots (Swiss - Internees) in Switzerland, 1943 - 1945. The website is newly updated, learn more at:
https://www.b17museum.ch/index_e.php
The B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, The-American-Museum in Switzerland, with the history about the American bomber crews / fighter pilots (Swiss - Internees) in Switzerland, 1943 - 1945. The website is newly updated, learn more at:
https://www.b17museum.ch/index_e.php
Happy New Year 2021
The B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, The American Museum in Switzerland, with the history about the American bomber crews / fighter pilots (Swiss - Internees) in Switzerland, 1943 - 1945. The website is newly updated, learn more:
https://www.b17museum.ch/index_e.php
The B-17 Museum Utzenstorf, Switzerland, wishes you a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Excerpt from Diary Christmas 1944 at Wengen, Switzerland by Radio: T/Sgt. George W. Michel, B-24H, Serial No. 42-51106, 8th Air-Force, 392 Bomb Group, 576th Squadron, took off from Wendling and made an emergency landing at Altenrhein after the Munich mission on July 11, 1944, subsequently interned at Wengen, to Diary Excerpt:
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The Swiss-Internees Wing-Pin 1943 -1945
The Swiss-Internees Wing-Pin was worn as a souvenir by bomber crews and fighter pilots of the U.S.A.A.F. who were interned in Switzerland in the period 1943-1945. The Swiss-Internees Wing-Pin was manufactured during the war in Neuchâtel by the company Brevete, better known today as Brevete - Paul Kramer - Neuchatel. Because Wing-Pin gave in the versions Adelboden, Davos and Wengen, named After the Swiss-Internees camps for bomber crews and fighter pilots of the U.S.A.A.F. in Switzerland.
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