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The only time Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr.'s base was attacked was when a group of German fighters followed Holmes' bomb...

Sent to Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi, Frederick Amore spent two months in basic training before volunteering to...

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...

Raymond Cauble lost his crew after he was wounded and was in recovery. His crew was shot down later. Cauble was wounded...

On his 49th mission in Italy, Bernard Peters dropped leaflets. They were written in German on one side and Italian on...

Russian aircraft were strafing the area where Aubrey Bradley was being held, and he was given coffee and stale bread...

Edgar A. Grabhorn's group [Annotator's Note: 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force]...

William Albright was a ball turret gunner [Annotator's Note: on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber number 42-...

Henry Sherman Fouts flew his first mission on 29 August 1944 [Annotator's Note: with the 346th Bombardment Squadron,...

John B. Butz and his entire crew were transferred from the 460th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 760th Bombardment...

Homer Cole flew 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Cole served in the US Army Air Forces as a tail gunner aboard...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Dean Paynter arrived England around the middle of June 1944]. They started training there. He...

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