Vintage photo from 1944 of Austrians standing in front of a captured B-24 plane known as the Cherry II.

Planning for an Unique Family History Trip to Austria, Germany and Poland this Summer

In the early morning hours of June 9, 1944, three days after the successful Allied invasion along the beaches of Normandy, 2nd Lt. Leo Carlton was awakened from his cot and informed he would be the substitute co-pilot for a B-24 bombing run over Munich. Little did Leo know this would be the start of…