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[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] William Isham Davis [Annotator’s Note: assigned...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

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

Albert Porche was in Italy when the war in Europe ended. The men were to be transferred to Sweden but with the end, the...

There were roughly 36 planes in each mission from the base [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Thurleigh in Thurleigh,...

Walter Bala was called back to service for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953]. He had a new car and drove...

Henry Sherman Fouts' last combat mission [Annotator's Note: with the 346th Bombardment Squadron, 99th Bombardment Group...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was based in Italy in 1944. Card playing consumed a big part of the idle time spent on base...

Richard Tangradi remembers when the pilot called him to the front and gave him a cigar during a mission. The wing had a...

Richard Klenoski was at a rest home [Annotator's Note: a flak house; a designated rest home for American airmen who...

Jack Rolfson had a roommate who would find coal to warm their pot belly stove. He was a mathematician and was always...

Chester Strunk and his fellow crewmen were approached by locals on horseback immediately following their parachute...

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