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On one mission, Bernard Smith's aircraft was taking off and the left wing began to dip. He got frightened and they hit...

Robert "Bob" Rickel flew with the 379th Group [Annotator's Note: 524th Bombardment Squadron, 379th Bombardment Group,...

During the mission of 10 January [Annotator's Note: 10 January 1945], Walter Bala's plane was returning to base when it...

Robert Bueker and his crew [Annotator's Note: in the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] had a lot of secondary...

Monroe S. Wolyn ended up flat on the floor of the plane. He heard a loud bang. He could not move. The wing had blown...

James Read Kirk was taken to Budapest [Annotator's Note: Budapest, Hungary] where he was put into prison [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer is looking at some war souvenirs of Donald Dean Paynter and puts the camera on some...

Glen Jostad was taken to Frankfurt, Germany for interrogation after his capture by the Germans. It was a rough time,...

John Lawler flew a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] with the 2nd Squadron, 52nd...

Jack Rolfson did not like the missions where he had to go behind enemy lines. When he was in the service, the Army...

The first time Malcolm Higgins saw a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] he wondered how...

They [Annotator's Note: Malcolm Higgins and his crew] did everything they could do to keep their plane in the air after...

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