The US Army practicing for the Normandy landings at the Slepton Sands, 1944

Normandy landings at the Slepton Sands, 1944

My father, Tech Sgt. Carl Raymond Overbey was stationed on the base at the Panama Canal. They were there to protect the canal from submarine attack. 1944.

Panama Canal Sub Hunter

USAAF ordnance men with the 514th Bomb Squadron of the 9th Air Force’s 376th Heavy Bombardment Group, the “Liberandos”, push a bomb at Soluch Airfield, near Benghazi, Libya, mid-1943. The aircraft in background is the B-24D Liberator “Wash’s Tub” one of the bombers on the Ploesti Raid of August 1 1943. Notice the yellow circled insignia used by the USAAF on 1943. Victor Sierra