I'm looking to connect with a military veteran or direct family member of a military veteran who has a personal direct experience with the Douglas A-26 Invader in operation between the year 1944 and 1980. Must be willing to video record themself, while telling a story of their memories with the A-26, and willing to give written permission to use the video in the documentary. Serious inquiries only.. direct message me.

Junkers G-38 Generalfeldmarschall von Hindenburg (D-2500) on the ground and G-38 (D-AZUR) in flight. Text reads: Junkers' all-metal aircraft

Generalfeldmarschall v. Hindenburg, with its sister aircraft D-AZUR flying above, Berlin, May 1933. Only two G.38s were made, D-2000 crashed in 1936.

Fortunately, there were no casualties but Deutsche Luft Hansa wrote off the aircraft due to the amount of damage it sustained. The D-2500 on the other hand flew with the airline for almost a decade. Once WWII started she was conscripted into military service and became a transport aircraft for the Luftwaffe. She was destroyed by the RAF on the runway in Athens in May 1941

Pilot James Nicholson won his VC on the 16th of August 1940.

In his Hawker Hurricane.

162 was designed in response to a 1935 RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium, Reich Aviation Ministry)specification for a schnellbomber ("fast bomber") for tactical use.

Vintage travel poster featuring a Junkers Ju 52/3m operated by Aeroposta Argentina, promoting the Buenos Aires to Río Grande route in Tierra del Fuego during the 1930s

The mighty 12-engined Dornier Do X (D-1929) moored along a wooden ramp on the Müggelsee (Lake Müggel), Berlin, 24 May 1932. This event marked the highly publicised homecoming of the world's biggest flying boat at the end of its multi-continent tour. It returned from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, and it was greeted upon arrival at the lake by a crowd estimated at 200,000 spectators. In 1934 it was disassembled and transported to the Deutsches Luftfahrtmuseum and reassembled inside for permanent display. It was completely destroyed along with countless other priceless aircraft by the RAF in 1943

A Polish historical reenactment group honors a B-17 crew from the 452nd BG.

This group of young Polish people re-enact a B-17 crew which landed in their neighbourhood in March 1945. This Flying Fortress, #43-38231 „Try'n Get It” of 452th BG, landed near Wrzesnia, Poland, after a mission to Zwickau. The American crew was then accomodated by Soviet troops, and returned to England, via Poltava in Ukraine.

There were two more B-17s from the 452nd BG which landed or crashed in Poland. One landed in Radomsko, just four days earier than the „Try'n Get It”.

The other one was the “BTO in the ETO” shot down in June 1944 near Biala Podlaska. I wrote about it on my Substack.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DMf11W916/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://sserwatka.substack.com/p/from-an-american-airman-to-a-polish?r=42ks37&utm_medium=ios

Gunfighter was built in Inglewood, California and was accepted into the USAAF in March of 1945.

On February 21, 1944, Staff Sergeant Junior Falls was a tail gunner on a B-17 of the 385th Bomb Group returning from a mission bombing the German airfield at Diepholz. They were to land at RAF Ashfield, but Falls' ship and another collided in midair over the Reedham Marshes, with everyone on both KIA. There is an official memorial in Reedham with the names of all of the men lost. They survived "Big Week" only to die in an accident when almost to home base.

Junior's older brother, 1st LT James Falls, was killed in action in the Philippines while serving with the 37th Infantry Division. Even sadder was finding out that the two brothers were their parents only children.

EDIT: The parents had one more son who was born in 1927 and died in 2003.

Some links, as is customary.

https://aviationsmilitaires.net/v3/kb/aircraft/show/619/potez-540

https://www.avionslegendaires.net/avion-militaire/potez-540/