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For James "Jim" L. Brooks' [Annotator's Note: a pilot with 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force]...

On arrival in San Francisco, California, James Morehead reported to headquarters, and didn't like the planes he would...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Jones Quincy Adams Jr. and the interviewer in conversation.] Adams was...

Ray Garcia and Al Nickels [Annotator's Note: later United States Air Force Colonel Albert B. Nickels] both made the Air...

Otto Kirkpatrick was born in October 1921 in Marianna, Arkansas. In the summer of 1943, he graduated from navigation...

Lorcey J. Sonnier departed from Maine for duty overseas. He made a stop in Newfoundland, Iceland, Ireland, and Scotland...

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

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

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

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

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

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