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Harold Gournay flew out of Italy for 18 or 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Gournay served in the USAAF as a waist gunner...

In the mid to late May 1944, John Sacks was sent to England with Aerial Transport Command, ATC [Annotators Note: Air...

John Sacks' first mission was to Bremen, Germany to hit an oil refinery in that city. When they got over the target the...

On 13 September 1944 John Sacks flew a mission to bomb an I.G. Farben refinery manufacturing synthetic fuel. The plant...

They had never seen rockets before they were attacked with them one day. A rocket hit Vincent Pale's B-24 [Annotator's...

As a child, Elisabeth Bolster sat on her father's lap while Munich was being bombed by the Allies. She was comforted by...

The twenty-first and the twenty-second missions stick out in James Siracuse's mind. On the twenty-first mission,...

James Siracuse was waiting to board the plane [Annotator's Note: for his 22nd mission]. One of his gunners said that he...

[Annotator's Note: James Kemp McLaughlin flew 39 missions during two combat tours in Europe in Boeing B-17 Flying...

After his rough mission during which his engine caught fire James Kemp McLaughlin was ordered to take an airplane to...

[Annotator's Note: James Kemp McLaughlin flew 39 missions during two combat tours in Europe in Boeing B-17 Flying...

James Kemp McLaughlin does not recall the modified B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] YB...

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