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Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. experienced enemy fire returning from a bombing mission to Hamm, Germany on 22 April 1944....

Alexander Jefferson listened to the BBC [Annotator's Note: British Broadcasting Corporation] radio at the POW [...

Virgil Faust's first mission overseas was to Flushing, Belgium, which was a milk run [Annotator's Note: slang term used...

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force at...

A typical mission for Carl Koone began with the officers going for briefings and the aircrew boarding trucks that took...

Out of 35 missions, Maurice Hackler only had one mission he considered a close call. He was flying deputy, watching the...

Edgar A. Grabhorn [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] was moved to Frankfurt [Annotator's Note: Frankfurt, Germany]...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

After ditching his plane [Annotator's Note: on 12 April 1944 over Perwez, Belgium], Gilbert S. Shawn worked with the...

Francis Dolsen had to bail out of a plane. [Annotator’s Note: The interviewer is talking about the different pilots and...

After World War 2, John B. Butz and his unit [Annotator's Note: 885th Bombardment Squadron, 2641st Special Group, 15th...

Francis Dymnicki flew missions from France against Germany. There were few days off because of the perilous times. When...

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