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[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2.]. Wilhelm Gehlen...

Teddy Kirkpatrick continues recounting several of the missions he flew as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying...

After the war, trolley missions were flown to show ground personnel the damage that had been done to Germany. Donald...

Joel Urice saw the hole in their plane before they landed. He does not remember ever discussing the missions with the...

Walter Bala was born Walter Baloski in September 1923 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Polish...

Darrell Welch returned home from North Africa in just under a year. He flew 61 missions. He has great praise for the B-...

Norman Riggsby was drafted. He then went to an examination. Afterward, he went to a reception center in Michigan. From...

Bernard Kofsky's [Annotator's Note: with the 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] worst mission was in Schweinfurt [...

Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...

Philip Whitman went overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. He went...

Herbert Heilbrun went through the cadets with Lyle Pearson. On 29 December [Annotator's Note: 29 December 1944],...

Wendell Galbraith did not suffer from any survivor's guilt. The only thing he experienced, not long before the...

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