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Out of 35 missions, Maurice Hackler only had one mission he considered a close call. He was flying deputy, watching the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Chester Brewer how he found out about his crew being shot down during a mission...

At Fort Benning, Georgia, Thomas J. Blakey went through communications school after he qualified [Annotator's Note: as...

After completing his training, Mort Walker volunteered for overseas duty because he had heard that once the war was...

For Alfred Pierse Murphy, the most difficult part of succeeding in a bombing mission was the flak [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Erna Deiglmayr when she knew the war was coming to an end.] The German military...

Raymond Zager crossed the Rhine River into Austria. The Third Army had laid down a blanket of fog to cover the convoy....

Theodore Finkbeiner shipped out of Cape Cod aboard the USS George Washington [Annotators Note: SS George Washington] in...

Charles R. Smith was a senior in high school on 8 December [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941]. They were asked to go...

James Craig knew he would be leaving home and did not know if he would get back. He was engaged to be married. After he...

Francis Dymnicki does not remember his first mission. He flew missions over France in preparation for D-Day [Annotator'...

Rall was an Army cadet and after the war school, kriegschule, in Dresden he was promoted to a first lieutenant. He had...

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