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On the mission to Blechhammer one of Rackley's partner's lost an engine. He saw the cowling fly off of the engine. His...

Samuel Lombardo was assigned to the 394th Regiment as both a platoon commander in Company I [Annotator's Note: Company...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

Carrol Joy was erroneously given three sets of shots after swearing into the United States Army Air Forces. His first...

When you woke up in the morning, you had to make up your bed and it had to be basically a foot or 2 off the floor. The...

[Annotator's Note: Segment begins with Sacks and the interviewer discussing the interviewee referring to his notes...

According to a report written by Jesse Wofford's tail gunner, on 10 January 1945, the crew witnessed a B-17 [Annotator'...

On 8 September 1942, Irving Baum entered the service and was sent to Camp Upton in Long Island, New York. Three days...

Richard Scheerer never spoke much about the war after he got home. He just wanted to forget it. It was a four year...

Joseph Armanini is most proud of the moment he met Gabby Gabreski and how Gabreski congratulated him on how well he...

[Annotator's Note: Gerda Klein, who was in slave labor camp in Poland, can be very difficult to understand at points...

Raymond Mason remembers the guys in his battalion were good guys. They were well-trained. They kept seeing Germans. His...

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