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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...

Because of his P-47 Thunderbolt [Annotator's Note: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft] training, Ray Garcia was...

Glen Jostad learned while being a prisoner of the Germans that everything is valuable. He managed to create a trap for...

Robert "Bob" Rickel does not recall the mission to Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany with the 524th...

Leadership attitudes in Charles McGee's unit helped to form a bond between the men. McGee's first flight was in the PT-...

Walter Bala and others would use bicycles as a mode of transportation on base [Annotator's note: RAF Old Buckenham,...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber named “...

Darrell Welch went to El Paso [Annotator's Note: El Paso, Texas] to get his physical. He went to Fort Bliss [Annotator'...

Darrell Welch never turned back from a mission. There was one mission where he should have. Welch had a good mechanic....

William L. Snow arrived overseas in November 1944 and was stationed at Alconbury, England [Annotator's Note: with the...

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force out of...

Philip Whitman's 33rd mission was flown on 13 February 1945 over an oil refinery in Vienna, Austria. It was 53 degrees...

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