Mike CroissantMay 263 min readMore Stories of 25 April 1945The 28th ManTwenty-eight American airmen lost their lives on the 25 April 1945 bombing raid on Linz, Austria. Due to tough editorial choices that had...
Mike CroissantFeb 73 min readMore Stories of 25 April 1945Ken Becker's morning thoughts - and an incredible memory I verifiedKen Becker, a navigator in the 99th Bomb Group, was my friend, and spending hours with him on the deck of his lakeside home in Wisconsin...
Mike CroissantJan 265 min readMore Stories of 25 April 1945Bob Soutar and his “Little Black Book”I interviewed more than fifty survivors of the Linz mission of 25 April 1945, but I had to make some tough choices when it came to...
Mike CroissantJan 121 min readNews & UpdatesThree new YouTube Shorts videos tied to Bombing Hitler's HometownI have decided to start creating YouTube Shorts videos to promote Bombing Hitler's Hometown. Please check them out. More to follow soon.
Mike CroissantJan 30, 20214 min readMore Stories of 25 April 1945A B-17 Navigator on the Fifteenth Air Force's One and Only Raid on BerlinAlthough I interviewed more than fifty veterans for Bombing Hitler's Hometown, I couldn't use every story and anecdote in the book. I...
Mike CroissantDec 5, 20206 min readMore Stories of 25 April 1945From the Skies Over Europe in World War II to the Bay of Pigs - The Story of Stan BeerliI interviewed more than fifty veterans for Bombing Hitler's Hometown, but I inevitably had to leave some material on the cutting room...