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Norris Bucksell fired a gun for the first time on 8 May 1945, V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day], and...

Men thought the women in uniform were silly and could not do anything, but they would assist the women if needed. Romay...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber named “...

When she returned home, Henrietta Harkness heard the complaints of people about various material things. She compared...

Wayne Peer was born in December 1923 in Keenesburg, Colorado and grew up in Keenesburg until his teen years when the...

Donald Bryan took off on 140 missions but only completed 138 of them. The bombers aborted on two of them because of...

Carl Platkin was born in September 1924 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father worked...

After the invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] began, Sol...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Dean Paynter arrived England around the middle of June 1944]. They started training there. He...

Homer Cole flew 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Cole served in the US Army Air Forces as a tail gunner aboard...

Henry Langrehr had some near misses while evading recapture [Annotator's Note: after escaping from a prisoner of war...

On 5 June 1944, the squadron was about to take off to rendezvous with the mine sweepers when Solis “Sol” Kaslow, who...

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