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In 1944, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a bombardier with the 407th...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel feels it was not a big deal to become an Ace [Annotator's Note: military aviator credited with...

Aubrey Bradley had always wanted to fly, but had never been in an airplane before he entered the Army Air Corps. His...

Robert "Bob" Rickel went on a mission to Anklam [Annotator's Note: Anklam, Germany with the 524th Bombardment Squadron...

Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. served with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group, 5th Bombardment Wing,...

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

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

Herman Molen volunteered to go on the second Schweinfurt mission [Annotator’s Note: The Second Schweinfurt raid, also...

Robert Bueker had navigation training in Hondo, Texas. He was in San Antonio [Annotator's Note: San Antonio, Texas] on...

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

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

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

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