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[Annotators Note: Interview begins with the interviewer and George Wichterich talking about a tank that was knocked out...

Floyd Dumas was in a prison camp in 1943. He made his first landing in Sicily. After that landing they were given a...

Byron Othello Wilkins, who goes by B.O. Wilkins, was named after his father. He grew up in northeast Arkansas in Luxora...

Hannan gives some background about his life in prewar Italy. He explains the attitude of the German youth and of an...

Freddie Ohr thought that it was an exciting mission [Annotators Note: See Freddie Ohr Segment 17]. He thought that...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr.'s worst mission was his third mission because it was the first with heavy flak [Annotator's...

Frank Curtis McBride installed the bombsight [Annotator’s Note: Norden bombsight] in the twin engine Martin bombers [...

In 1944,Vernon Schmidt began his military training with a cannon company on the 105mm howitzer [Annotator's Note: M2A1...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

Alan Moskin was a scout. Scouts go in ahead of the outfit to make sure the outfit does not get ambushed. Two men are...

Peter Du Pre turned down his next deferment and joined the service. His three brothers were already in the service....

In 1983, George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th...

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