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

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

Daniel Samuelson had some close missions. They had several engine losses. They were alright. Flak [Annotator's Note:...

John Angier was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft VII-A [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany] STalag VII...

Bernard Smith was fortunate because when he got overseas, the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] had been...

On 13 September 1944 John Sacks flew a mission to bomb an I.G. Farben refinery manufacturing synthetic fuel. The plant...

If the aviators saw a plane hit, they would count the parachutes that came out. According to Darrell D. Gust, if the...

A small contingent of Hungarian soldiers from Letenye [Annotator's Note: Letenye, Hungary] took Robert Bueker and kept...

Virgil Faust's first mission overseas was to Flushing, Belgium, which was a milk run [Annotator's Note: slang term used...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

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

There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...

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