Photo Essay of a Tail Gunner

by Harold J. Heikkila

compiled by Doreen Heikkila Richter

 

Staff sergeant Heikkila served in the Army Air Corps and was the recipient of five bronze stars in World War II. A tail gunner, he took photographs of many of his bombing runs over Germany from his perch at the back of his plane. He also photographed his military career and his buddies. He created an album, that was beginning to deteriorate, in which he captioned every photo in white ink on the familiar black photo album paper. The family wanted to preserve the photographs as well as keep his handwritten captions.

 

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Specifications: 10 x 8 trim size, 128 pages, softcover, text set in Sabon, titles set in Wide Latin. Published privately by the compiler, Minneapolis MN, 2006.