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George Roberts was signed up to fly 25 missions. After flying only 16 missions, however, that required number was...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, interviewee asks a woman off camera questions. She sometimes comes into the...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

Lloyd Burns was on his ninth mission when his airplane was shot down [Annotator's Note: Burns was a pilot in the 598th...

[Annotator's Note: This clip starts with Floyd Horne discussing the bad reputation of the Martin B-26 Marauder medium...

Norman Weber and his cousin heard a different sound to the sirens [Annotator’s Note: air raid sirens sounded near a...

Robert Heller was low on fuel and had to decide what to do. While looking for a field to take the plane down, he sent a...

James McDermott considered the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress the best airplane there was. He did not like the B-24 [...

Edgar A. Grabhorn was born in 1924 in Annapolis [Annotator's Note: Annapolis, Maryland]. The Depression [Annotator's...

At the conclusion of World War 2, Teddy Kirkpatrick returned to Michigan. He briefly attended the University of...

Albert Porche was in Italy when the war in Europe ended. The men were to be transferred to Sweden but with the end, the...

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