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[Annotator's Note: Frank Finklang served with the 419th Bombardment Squadron, 301st Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

Francis Dymnicki would wake up very early in the morning to prepare for a bombing mission. Daylight hours in England...

Herman Molen was in the 305th Bombardment Group. They spent a lot of time training because of the weather. They would...

Chester Brewer went by train to Deopham Green, which was near his airbase [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Deopham...

Hewitt Brian Gomez received his commission and received a 10-day leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew received orders to fly overseas to England, making one stop in Iceland. They...

On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

Mack Fitzgerald was a Georgian who enlisted in the Army Air Force after the Pearl Harbor attack. He was trained as a...

There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...

For Alfred Pierse Murphy, the most difficult part of succeeding in a bombing mission was the flak [Annotator's Note:...

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...

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