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[Annotator's Note: Herbert Heilbrun is showing a photograph of Lyle Pearson, a squadronmate of Heilbrun's, and himself...

[Annotator’s Note: There is traffic noise in the background throughout this segment.] Thomas Beary served with the...

Following completion of gunnery training, Robert W. Paschal was sent to MacDill Field, Florida for advanced training....

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. thinks the Norden bombsight [Annotator's Note: Norden Mk. XV tachometric bombsight] was a...

Marvin Raymond Edwards' [Annotator's Note: with the 856th Bombardment Squadron, 492nd Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force...

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

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany. Once a prisoner of war, he was...

Timothy Mahoney only went on a flight after he did repairs to the radar equipment. The pilots did not like doing those...

Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania] was different from the other targets that Robert J. "Bob" Goebel flew...

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

Clyde East's combat philosophy worked for him as a pilot. When he caught sight of an enemy aircraft, it scared him, but...

Kenneth Beckman trained with one crew prior to being sent overseas, then joined another crew just prior to leaving. He...

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