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Robert J. "Bob" Goebel says the P-39 [Annotator's Note: Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft] had a bad reputation. It...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Doolan to describe how a bombing mission would go.] They would be...

Lowell Brueland became Senior Flight Leader before the Normandy D-Day invasion. He had the opportunity to become the...

After the war, Jack Buckner used the G.I. Bill to go to school. His first child was born, and he was having a tough...

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

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. After being assigned to an air crew, Chester...

DeQuindre McGlaun [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] got...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the radio navigator in the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group,...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

The target for Wendell Galbraith's second mission [Annotator's Note: with the 782nd Bombardment Squadron, 465th...

John Angier's 33rd mission was to Cologne, Germany which should have been a relatively short mission. They were hit...

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