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Theodore Marolda got rest and then trained in Melbourne, Australia [Annotator's Note: with Company A, 1st Armored...
As the war progressed, the air support was hit and miss for Jack Buckner and the other bomber crews [Annotator's Note:...
Albion Kenneth Hutcherson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber serving with the...
Charles Childs was lucky to graduate [Annotator's Note: in 1938]. He had some friends going to college and they needed...
Chester Brewer joined the Army Air Corps and was sent to Midland-Odessa [Annotator's Note: Midland-Odessa, Texas] and...
A mission over the road leading out of Remagen [Annotator's Note: Remagen, Germany] proved problematic for Robert...
On 22 December [Annotator's Note: 22 December 1941], James Morehead headed south from San Francisco, California for...
William Albright got along well with this crew. There were two or three of them who did things together. They were the...
Albion Kenneth Hutcherson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber serving with the...
Samuel W. Smith passed his instrument school training a week before graduation. He got a 250 dollar allowance to buy a...
[Annotator's Note: There is background noise throughout this clip.] Jack Sinise had heard about the B-17 [Annotator's...
According to a report written by Jesse Wofford's tail gunner, on 10 January 1945, the crew witnessed a B-17 [Annotator'...
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. had not yet been assigned to a squadron when he graduated from advanced bombardier training...
Ray Fitzgerald was right behind the pilot and copilot in the top turret in the B-24 [Annotator's Note: he was the...
Jack Sanders felt that despite its bad reputation, the B-24 [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber...
Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. and his crew mates used skip bombing [Annotator's Note: a low level bombing technique that...
It was about a five or six hour mission for David K. Hayward to fly into Burma [Annotator's Note: now Myanmar] and back...
The B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] appealed to William Smith as an airplane. The...
Floyd Horne was fortunate that his first combat mission was short. It was near Calais [Annotator's Note: Calais, Hauts-...
[Annotator's Note: This clip starts with Floyd Horne discussing the bad reputation of the Martin B-26 Marauder medium...
In the main camp [Annotator's Note: Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria; present day China], Malcolm Ernest and the prisoners...
[Annotator's Note: Selwyn Gilmore served in the United States Army Air Forces as a ground crew armorer for the Boeing B...
Nick Cristiano saw his first B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] in New Mexico and it...
The name of Wendall Woodall's B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was City of...
A regular day for Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] was to keep the transmitters going...
Roger Shaw returned to the SS George Gayle after his leave in New Orleans, Louisiana. The was his original ship. It...
Daniel Samuelson finished his 35 missions. He had flown over from Florida to Scotland and then went to England. After...
After that mission [Annotator’s Note: an aborted mission to an airfield just outside of Paris during which Grant had...
William McCowen thinks it is important to have the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans,...
Francis Dolsen had to bail out of a plane. [Annotator’s Note: The interviewer is talking about the different pilots and...
William White Brainard served as a radioman on a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] for...
Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that the number three engine burned through fuel lines to the number four engine. Their plane...
Chester Strunk and his crewmates who were originally assigned together had flown with separate crews until they were...
Edgar A. Grabhorn's first ten missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator with the 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th...
In the summer of 1944, John J. Connelly was serving with the 44th Bombardment Group [Annotator’s Note: 44th Bombardment...
On 20 July 1944, Richard Henry Hamilton and his crew on their B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

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