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Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

When Maurice Hackler got to England, he stayed at Bovington for about a week, and experienced air raid warnings for the...

Samuel W. Smith was asked if he would be a lead crew. It would cut down his missions to 30. He would have to have more...

James "Jim" L. Brooks was born in January 1921 in Vinton, Virginia which was a rural area. Though his family lived on a...

The French Resistance had taken James Armstrong via train to the town of Quimper, France. [Annotator's Note: Armstrong...

Darrell Welch flew 61 missions and only had one furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of...

Roland M. Lee encountered flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] on most of his missions [Annotator's...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman bailed out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber over Vienna, Austria on 13...

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

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp and his crew dropped food...

In this clip, Richard Notebaert talks about the missions he flew over the bigger cities in Italy, attacking an airfield...

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