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They [Annotator's Note: Malcolm Higgins and his crew] did everything they could do to keep their plane in the air after...

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

Ray Garcia's worst experience happened in January 1945 when he could not fly because he had a cold. His best buddy,...

Leon Waldman was a waist gunner on the co-pilot’s side. Their crew flew 51 missions. [Annotator’s Note: Waldman...

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

Stephen Ananian only knew he had flown his last mission after he landed, and his commander told him. Ananian wanted to...

Owen Gibb remembers that the Americans bombed during the day and the British bombed during the night. They flew B-17s [...

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

A mission to Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin, Germany] is the one that stands out in Daniel Samuelson's mind the most...

Glen Jostad bailed out of his damaged Boeing B-17 heavy bomber and had a German fighter pass twice around him with the...

Christian de Marcken's parents had seen the harbingers of war talked about how the situation resembled the prelude to...

Bernard Smith was very comfortable as an armorer gunner. He and his crew got along very well. They were ecumenical....

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