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Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

Frank Finklang was put with experienced crews for nine missions, and then his original crew was reformed to fly their...

[Annotator's Note: James Kemp McLaughlin flew 39 missions during two combat tours in Europe in Boeing B-17 Flying...

The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

After being promoted to captain and finishing his last bombing mission, Jack Buckner left his group [Annotator's Note:...

Henry Heim remembers flying from North Africa into Italy was more difficult. He thinks that might be because he did not...

Bernard Kofsky's [Annotator's Note: with the 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] worst mission was in Schweinfurt [...

During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression, a global economic depression that lasted from 1929...

On 9 April [Annotator's Note: 9 April 1945], Russian shock troops burst into the hospital where Wendell Galbraith was a...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Krause served in the US Army Air Forces as a flight engineer and top turret gunner on a...

[Annotator's Note: There is a break in the video then the video starts while Alfred Pierse Murphy is mid-sentence.] He...

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